Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left and Zhang Shengmin, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission second from right attend a ceremony in honor of fallen national heroes at the Monument to the People's Heroes to mark Martyrs' Day at Tiananmen Square in Beijing,

Bowing in apology before reporters, John Lee pledged to make reforms advocated in a scathing report on the residential blaze that killed 168 people last year.

El Salvador's government has deployed more than 2,000 troops to Haiti as part of a military operation to rescue four Salvadoran service members.

Neither major bloc is likely to win enough seats to form the next government outright, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's camp is on track to win the most.

A Russian drone struck a train station in Dnipro, Ukraine, Thursday morning, killing 13 people and injuring many others, authorities said.

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro's decision to ⁠declare ⁠himself the country's rightful "leader" has failed to ⁠garner support from key figures in his political camp, leaving the right-wing lawmaker increasingly isolated in Brazilian ​politics.

A volcanic rock formation collapsed in Turkey's Cappadocia region, killing at least two people and injuring one. The incident happened in the Goreme area, known for its fairy chimneys, on

Spain's second high-speed rail disaster this year, a crash in which one train struck another from behind, killing 68 people, has raised fresh concerns about the safety of the country's rail network.