The Israeli military said Sunday it shot two Palestinian militants trying to place an explosive device along the border with Gaza ? one of whom was killed according to a Palestinian official.

Iran’s health ministry raised Sunday the death toll from the new virus to 8 people in the Middle Eastern country, amid concerns that clusters there, as well as in Italy and South Korea, could signal a serious new stage in its global spread.

The sun-baked city of Ahmedabad was jostling with activity Sunday as workers cleaned roads, planted flowers and hoisted hundreds of billboards featuring President Donald Trump, a day ahead of his maiden two-day visit to India after Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised him a boisterous public reception.

Eight people were killed in Turkey in a magnitude 5.7 earthquake that struck western Iran early Sunday morning, Turkish Interior Minister Suleiman Soylu said.

Voters in Hamburg, Germany’s second-biggest city, go to the polls Sunday to pick a new regional assembly in an election that’s been dominated by the issue of climate change.

Alex Ovechkin is making the seemingly impossible appear to be not so far-fetched after all.

Bus drivers in Moscow kept their WhatsApp group chat buzzing with questions this week about what to do if they spotted passengers who might be from China riding with them in the Russian capital.

Israel finds itself in a familiar place after a tumultuous election campaign ? with maverick politician Avigdor Lieberman still seemingly in control of the country?s fate.

Officials in Iran haven’t announced the voter turnout from parliamentary elections two days ago, but on Sunday the country’s supreme leader accused enemy ?propaganda? of trying to dissuade people from voting by amplifying the threat of the coronavirus.

The Senate?s top Democrat is raising questions about the Transportation Security Administration?s use of the China-owned video app TikTok, citing potential national security concerns and a ban by the Department of Homeland Security.