President Emmanuel Macron's government rejected a new demand by unions to rethink a deeply unpopular pension bill, infuriating labor leaders who said the government must find a way out of the crisis.
The impoverished small town of 1,900 in western Mississippi was clobbered by a ferocious tornado on Friday night, destroying many of the community's 400 homes.
At least 39 migrants from Central and South America died after a fire broke out at a migrant facility in the Mexican northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, the government's National Migration Institute (INM).
A 28-year-old suspect armed with several guns on Monday opened fire with an assault weapon, killing three children and three adults before being shot dead by police.
Kenyan police fired tear gas and a water cannon at stone-throwing supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga during the second consecutive week of protests against the government and high food prices.
Rescuers combed through rubble after a powerful storm tore across Mississippi late on Friday, killing at least 25 people there and one person in Alabama as it leveled hundreds of buildings and spawned at least one devastating tornado.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition plunged into chaos after mass overnight protests over the sacking of his defense chief piled pressure on the government to halt its bitterly contested plans to overhaul the judiciary.
The U.S. shoots down a high-altitude Chinese balloon, the Turkey-Syria earthquake kills tens of thousands, Ukraine's year of war, fashion week and more of our best photography from February 2023. Produced by Jillian Kumagai
