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The 5.9-magnitude quake, which injured hundreds, struck Gansu Province around midnight. Survivors huddled in the freezing cold, setting fires to keep warm.

William J. Burns was in Warsaw on Monday, where he met with the head of Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, and the prime minister of Qatar, which has helped broker talks with Hamas.

For the second time in less than two years, Chileans voted thumbs down on a new national charter, and few seem to have the energy to try again.

Chileans vote on a new constitution on Sunday that would pull the South American nation to the right. The process began with protests from the left.

President Xi Jinping urged “all-out efforts” to ensure safety amid wintry conditions after a subway crash left hundreds injured in the capital.

The flight was forced to land because of a “mechanical issue,” the company said, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded.

At the ceremony in Oslo, the Iranian activist’s twins also read a speech from their mother calling for a “globalization of peace and human rights.”

The annual U.N. talks have brought the rare spectacle of limited protests to the politically repressive United Arab Emirates.

Danielle Smith, the premier of Alberta, and Scott Moe of Saskatchewan made their way to the U.N. climate summit.

The extreme rain and flooding in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia this fall has been made twice as intense by climate change, according to a new study.