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Ibrahim Husseini, the spokesman for the Niger SEMA, told AFP the number of fatalities had risen to 59 on Monday from an initial toll of 52 when more victims were discovered in the wreckage and one of the injured died.

The US government specifically alleges that Google controls the market for publishing banner ads on websites, including those of many creators and news providers.

Five people were shot along a highway in the southern US state of Kentucky on Saturday, as police search for a suspect considered "armed and dangerous."

Donald Trump's sentencing in his New York hush money trial was postponed on Friday until after the US presidential election in November.

What with the food shortages, people fleeing the country in droves and protests over him allegedly stealing the election (again), President Nicolas Maduro felt Venezuelans needed cheering up. So he has declared that Christmas will come early this year.

Even as the country warms, huge government support and the interest of an expanding middle class have seen the ski industry coast to new heights in China, particularly after Beijing hosted the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The 87-year-old pontiff made Southeast Asia's biggest economy the first stop of an arduous Asia-Pacific tour, delivering a message of religious unity to counter extremism and intolerance.

Citing unnamed sources, CNN reported that the gun used in the shooting, which it described as an AR 15-style assault rifle, had been purchased for the teenager by his father as a holiday gift.

Volkswagen executives defended plans to consider the unprecedented closure of factories in Germany during a heated meeting Wednesday.