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U.S. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden addressed the importance of immigration during the Cinco de Mayo celebrations at the White House this Monday (May 6).

The Houston area and rest of Southeast Texas which experienced several days of heavy rainfall and flooding began to see floodwaters recede on Monday (May 6).

Palestinian militant group Hamas on Monday (May 6) agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators, but Israel said the terms did not meet its demands and pressed ahead with strikes in Rafah while planning to continue negotiations on a deal. Olivia Zollino has more.

Researchers in Israel are turning to artificial intelligence to comb through piles of records to try to identify hundreds of thousands of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust, including those whose names are missing from official memorials. Olivia Zollino has more.

White House spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on Monday (May 6) that it was reviewing a response by the Islamist Hamas militant group to a ceasefire and hostage release deal, but declined to give any details of what was agreed.

French President Emmanuel Macron and EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen urged Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday (May 6) to ensure more balanced trade with Europe, but the Chinese leader showed little sign of being ready to offer major concessions. Angela Johnston reports.

Rescue efforts were underway after two people were killed and dozens remained trapped after a multi-story building under construction collapsed in the South African city of George, authorities said on Monday (May 6).

Preparations for the third phase of the world's biggest election are underway in India, as electoral officers began dispatching Electronic Voting Machines and other polling materials to voting centres in 94 constituencies.

Columbia University on Monday canceled its main, university-wide commencement ceremony scheduled for May 15 in favor of smaller, school-based events, a decision that follows weeks of pro-Palestinian protests that roiled the Ivy League School. This report produced by Freddie Joyner.

Several thousand Jews, including Holocaust survivors personally affected by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, walked through Auschwitz, the former Nazi German death camp, on Monday (May 6) for the annual March of the Living ceremony in Poland. The march's president Phyllis Greenberg Heideman said the Jewish community will "not rest peacefully until all our hostages are free from their captivity."

Israel's military carried out airstrikes in Rafah on Monday, residents said, hours after Israel told Palestinians to evacuate parts of the southern Gaza city where more than a million people uprooted by the war have been sheltering. Ilan Rubens reports.

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping for bilateral talks at the Elysee Palace on Monday (May 6).

Chadians voted on Monday in an election that analysts say will be likely won by military leader Mahamat Idris Deby, in a region where Russia is vying for influence. David Doyle has more.

A member of Gaza's civil defense said on Monday (May 6) Israel had targeted 10 buildings in Rafah city overnight. The strikes left behind dead and wounded, Iyad al-Jamal told Reuters in an interview.

Some Palestinian families were seen leaving areas east of Rafah on Monday (May 6) after receiving evacuation orders from the Israeli military.

Panama's former security minister Jose Raul Mulino on Sunday stormed to victory in a presidential poll dominated by his old boss, the popular ex-leader Ricardo Martinelli, who buttressed his campaign despite being holed up in Nicaragua's embassy. Ryan Brooks reports.

Family members of three tourists who went missing in northern Mexico last month have identified their bodies, the state prosecutor's office in Baja California said in a statement on Sunday. Gabe Singer reports.

The death toll from heavy rains that have caused flooding in Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to at least 78, local authorities said on Sunday, with more than 115,000 people displaced. Laila Shahrokhshahi reports.

Ukrainians in the embattled east flocked to church on Sunday (May 5) to mark their third wartime Easter as Russian troops inched closer to threatening some of the region's key cities. Angela Johnston reports.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at his country's annual commemoration of the victims of the Nazi Holocaust, vowing that Israel would confront what he called its 'genocidal enemies.'

Israeli police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its de facto office on Sunday (May 5) following a government decision to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station's local operations, an Israeli official and an Al Jazeera source told Reuters. Angela Johnston reports.

Prospects for a Gaza ceasefire appeared slim on Sunday as Hamas reiterated its demand for an end to the war in exchange for the freeing of hostages, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flatly ruled that out. Zachary Goelman produced this report. This edit contains graphic images.

Israel's Holocaust commemorations this year have a searing significance for six elderly survivors now deeply scarred by the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7 that sparked the ongoing Gaza war. Olivia Chan has more.

Some 20 rockets were launched from Lebanon towards the northern Israeli town on Sunday (May 5), some of which made direct hits to houses and residential buildings, injuring at least one man, according to Israeli media.

Panamanians headed to the polls in Sunday's (May 5) general election to elect one of eight contenders to be the nation's next president and vote for hundreds of local lawmakers and officials.