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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Israel's president to pardon him preemptively, before any verdicts were reached in his corruption cases. Here's what to know about his trial.
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Officials say 11 others are injured in what they believe is a "targeted" shooting at a children's birthday party.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the contentious appeal weeks after President Trump made the same request to the Israeli president.
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;Resize=(620)) The death toll in Hong Kong's apartment complex blaze rose to 146 on Sunday as investigators discovered more bodies in the burned-out buildings. A steady stream of people placed bouquets of flowers at an ever-growing makeshift memorial at the scene of the disaster, among the worst in the city's history.
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;Resize=(620)) Some residents of the flood-hit Indonesian island of Sumatra have resorted to stealing food and water to survive, authorities said Sunday, while Sri Lankan officials said deaths from floods and mudslides in that island nation have risen to 193.
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;Resize=(620)) Authorities in California asked the public for tips on Sunday in finding the person responsible for a shooting a day earlier that left four people dead, three of them children, at a family gathering at a banquet hall in Stockton and wounded many more.
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;Resize=(620)) U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said that the airspace "above and surrounding" Venezuela should be considered as "closed in its entirety," an assertion that raised more questions about the U.S. pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. His government accused Trump of making a "colonial threat" and seeking to undermine the South American country's sovereignty.
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Juan Orlando Hernández, whom Mr. Trump called a victim of persecution, helped orchestrate a decades-long trafficking conspiracy. It ravaged his Central American country.
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;Resize=(620)) Airlines around the world reported short-term disruptions heading into the weekend as they fixed software on a widely used commercial aircraft, after an analysis found the computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue plane last month.
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Just as peace talks were gaining traction, Ukraine has lost its lead negotiator
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The storm will spread through the Midwest and Great Lakes regions over the weekend with "widespread heavy snowfall and hazardous travel conditions," the National Weather Service said.
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