Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada said that he and President Biden had ordered the downing of a flying object that ‘represented a reasonable threat to civilian aircraft.’

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called the country’s plan to train Ukrainian pilots on NATO-standard jets a ‘first step,’ strongly suggesting it could provide Ukraine with advanced British fighter planes in the future.

The United States Agency for International Development said it was deploying two specialized search and rescue units, one from California and the other from Virginia, to assist in disaster response.

Rescue teams combed through the rubble of a collapsed building in Adana, Turkey.

American officials said that the surveillance device was shot down off the coast of the Carolinas after it spent the last week traversing the country. Chinese officials maintained that it was a weather balloon that had entered U.S. airspace by accident.

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III announced a deal to give the U.S. military access to four more bases in the Philippines, bringing the total to nine.

Rev. Dr. J. Lawrence Turner, the pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church in Memphis, described Tyre Nichols as ‘a good person’ whose brutal killing by the police denied him ‘the dignity of his humanity.’

The storm pushing across parts of the Southern Plains and Southeast disrupted travel and caused widespread power outages in Texas.

Crowds gathered along the roads of Kinshasa, the capital, to greet Pope Francis as he arrived for the first papal visit to the Central African country since 1985.

Community members joined RowVaughn Wells, the mother of Tyre Nichols, and Rodney Wells, Mr. Nichols’s stepfather, at a candlelit vigil in Memphis.