The member states of the European Union on Monday agreed to impose terrorism-related sanctions against an al-Qaida-affiliated armed insurgent group and two of its leaders. The East Pacific's first named storm of the year -- Agatha -- weakened to a tropical storm on Monday evening after it made landfall on the southern Mexico coastline. The European Union has agreed on a deal to impose a partial ban on oil imports from Russia in the face of its invasion of Ukraine, top EU officials announced late Monday. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday announced legislation that would freeze sales, transfers and imports of handguns amid other measures to tighten the nation's gun laws. Airlines canceled more than 7,000 flights worldwide over four days during the Memorial Day weekend, blaming bad weather, air traffic control issues and staff shortages. A judge ordered suspect Joseph Guardia to be held without bail Monday after he was charged with attempted first degree murder for allegedly setting a homeless man on fire in downtown Chicago. A golden tabernacle valued at about $2 million was stolen from a church in Brooklyn, N.Y., over the weekend, church officials said. DeLorean Motor Company released its first photos Monday of the new electric gull-winged Alpha 5 with a nod to the 1980s DeLorean time machine in "Back to the Future." Longtime National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre was re-elected to his post by the gun group's board of directors on Monday in the wake of the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The national average price of gasoline in the United States rose to $4.62 per gallon on Monday with many Americans expected to embark on long road trips for the Memorial Day holiday. Germany saw a more than 100% increase in police investigations of depictions of sexual violence against children and young people during 2021, authorities reported Monday. Photos of Queen Elizabeth II were projected onto the landmark Stonehenge to commemorate each decade of her 70-year British reign ahead of historic Platinum Jubilee celebrations. President Joe Biden will meet with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell at the White House on Tuesday to weigh possible measures to control rising inflation in the United States. Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was arrested in California over the weekend and charged with drunken driving, according to jail records. "Top Gun: Maverick" shattered Memorial Day weekend box office records with $156 million in ticket sales, giving actor Tom Cruise, 59, a career-first $100 million weekend opening. President Joe Biden remembered his son Beau and called for legislation to help military personnel exposed to toxic burn pits during his Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday. Florida authorities say they have arrested and charged a fifth-grader for sending a text message that threatened a mass shooting at his school. A man disguised as an elderly woman in a wheelchair smeared cake across a piece of glass that protects the Mona Lisa at Paris' famous Louvre museum, and was sent for a psychiatric evaluation, authorities said. Two people were killed and almost two dozen others were injured after a major car crash in Nebraska during the Americruise event in Lincoln on Sunday, authorities said. The World Health Organization official said Monday that it's unlikely that the monkeypox outbreak will evolve into a pandemic like COVID-19. Egyptian officials announced on Monday that archaeologists have discovered roughly hundreds of artifacts at the Saqqara necropolis that date back about 2,500 years. Officials in Nepal said on Monday they found a small plane with 22 passengers that went missing on Sunday crashed in the country's Mustang district at an altitude of about 14,500 feet. Adam Nagaitis, Natalie Gavin and Samuel Anderson are set to star in "Red Rose," an original, eight-part British horror series for the BBC and Netflix. Russian troopers moved into the outskirts of Sievierodonetsk on Monday after days of heavy shelling and fighting, officials said as Moscow continued its quest to capture eastern portions of Ukraine. |
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