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Switzerland is spending 354 million to make sure its network of public and private nuclear shelters are in tip-top shape and ready to accommodate all nine million Swiss residents, should the need arise. 

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at his side, announced on Monday that Tokyo-based SoftBank would invest $100 billion US in the country over the next four years in what they said would be a boost to its economy.

A 15-year-old girl opened fire at a Wisconsin school on Monday, fatally shooting a fellow student and a teacher and wounding six other people before taking her own life with the handgun, police said.

The Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz School in Khan Younis was struck without warning by Israel while displaced Palestinians slept on Sunday. At least 20 were killed by the strike, mostly women and children, survivors say.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that he would travel to Mayotte, France's poorest overseas territory, where rescuers are still searching for the hundreds feared dead from the worst cyclone to hit the Indian Ocean islands in nearly a century. 

A panel of judges will announce verdicts and sentences this week after a trial that captivated the world's attention. Dominique Pelicot is accused of drugging his now-former wife and inviting dozens of other men to rape her in their home in France's Provence region.

The German parliament accepted Chancellor Olaf Scholz's invitation to withdraw its confidence in him and his government on Monday, clearing the way for the Feb. 23 early election necessitated by the collapse of his government.

Ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad says he had no plans to leave the country after the fall of Damascus a week ago but the Russian military evacuated him after their base in western Syria came under attack.

South Korean law enforcement authorities are pushing to summon impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning over his short-lived martial law decree as the Constitutional Court began its first meeting Monday on Yoon's case to determine whether to remove him from office or reinstate him.

The death toll in the French territory of Mayotte from Cyclone Chido could be "several hundred" and may be close to 1,000, the island's top government official told the local broadcaster on Sunday.

Israel says it will close its embassy in Ireland as relations deteriorate over the war in Gaza, where Palestinian medical officials say new Israeli airstrikes have killed over 30 people including children.

A Russian oil tanker carrying thousands of tonnes of oil products split apart during a heavy storm on Sunday, spilling oil into the Kerch Strait, while another tanker was also in distress after sustaining damage, Russian officials said.

ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million US toward Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential library to settle a lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos's inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll.

As tens of thousands of Georgians protest the government's move to suspend talks to join the European Union, observers say the foreign policy reversal is a shocking change of course for the country once seen as a pro-Western bastion in the region that has been increasingly aligned with Moscow since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

A Manitoba senator who has passionately spoken about banning the practice of exporting horses by air for slaughter in Japan says he won't accept an invitation to come and see a shipment of horses being loaded onto a plane at the Winnipeg airport.

An unexpected visit with King Charles at Buckingham Palace is the bookend of a documentary feature film that recounts a trip that took young Canadian women to England in 1953, explores how their lives evolved in the decades since and follows them on a poignant return visit to London in December 2023.

Former soccer player Mikheil Kavelashvili became president of Georgia on Saturday, as the ruling party tightened its grip in what the opposition calls a blow to the country’s EU aspirations and a victory for former imperial ruler Russia.

Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi underwent a successful hip replacement surgery in Luxembourg and is "well on the mend," her office said in a statement.