At least eight people are dead and 38 others are trapped underground after a gas explosion in a coal mine in northeast China’s Shanxi province on Friday night, according to state media.

Lawyers for Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil vowed on Friday to take his case ‌to the U.S. Supreme Court, after a divided federal appeals court declined to reconsider a ruling that opened the door to President Donald Trump's administration re-arresting and deporting the pro-Palestinian activist.

Cruelty has become commonplace in the West Bank, where extremist Israeli settlers beat and shoot Palestinians, steal their sheep, uproot their olive groves and torch cars and home

The appeal marked the first significant update since the former British prince was arrested in February over allegations of misconduct while in office.

Raúl Castro is back at the center of U.S.-Cuba tensions after a U.S. indictment accused him in the 1996 shootdown of exile planes.

Trump joked about using a U.S. aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, to scare the Cuban regime led by Miguel Díaz-Canel into capitulation.

Activists on board a humanitarian flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces on their way to Gaza say they were subjected to beatings, torture and sexual violence while in detention.

The State Department had already paused visa processing at embassies in Uganda, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.