Herzog said that "we are gradually losing points of contact with one another, losing our connection to the binding story that keeps us whole as one nation."

The US National Weather Service issued air quality alerts for virtually the entire Atlantic seaboard.

The ADL report said that antisemitic incidents spiked 36% nationwide last year.

China has over the past three years regularly flown its air force into the skies near the island, though not into Taiwan's territorial air space.

Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station and dam, which unleashed flood water from the Dnipro River.

The UN Children's Agency said it was following up with Afghanistan's Taliban authorities over whether international organizations would be excluded from education projects

The majority of the Arab residents have been boycotting the municipal elections since 1968, claiming that participation would be interpreted as recognition of Israel’s annexation of east Jerusalem.

Friends and family posted frantic appeals in online chatrooms with names, photos and GPS locations of residents, including children and many elderly people, who were still waiting to be picked up