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Meena Geltink and Minal Tijssen were adopted from India by families in the Netherlands and grew up less than 100 miles apart.

In a picturesque village, the mayor closed a road, setting off a storm with residents and the owners of a castle that once belonged to his family.

They made a risky bid to reunite after three years of separation, illness and deprivation -- the kind of ordeal suffered by many thousands of families torn apart by the war in eastern Ukraine.

The boy shot and killed a schoolmate at a junior high school before fatally turning the gun on himself, the mayor of Zamboanga City said.

In Chocó, a predominantly Afro-Colombian and Indigenous region, "pain, hunger and homelessness await" survivors of last week's earthquake, the governor says.

Canada is seeking a deal to dodge further economic pain at the hands of the Trump administration on midnight Tuesday. But at what cost?

With a second term, Hakainde Hichilema must navigate relations with the Trump administration, which has sought greater access to the copper-rich nation's natural resources.

Venezuela and Japan both experienced major quakes this summer. Their responses differed, and not just because of money.

The spotlight on the country's only antiwar party has brought a spark to what had looked like another dull, tightly controlled election campaign.

The armed group, based in Yemen and backed by Iran, said it had launched missiles near the vital maritime trade route, in a conflict that shows no sign of abating.