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Days after the storm made landfall, northern Vietnam was being battered by incessant rain. A landslide buried a whole village in a mountainous province.

Dominique Pelicot, 71, was due to testify on Tuesday over charges he invited dozens of men to his home to abuse his wife, Gisèle Pelicot. His condition was not immediately clear.

The Ukrainian offensive over the border caught Moscow’s intelligence agencies by surprise, experts say. It wasn’t the first time that has happened during the war.

Dismissing Ukraine’s recent invasion of Kursk, the Russian leader said Kyiv made a mistake in trying to force Moscow to divert its forces from the Donbas region.

A damning final report into Britain’s worst residential fire since World War II blamed a litany of cost-cutting, dishonest sales practices and lax regulation for the blaze that killed 72 people.

More than 60 living hostages, and the bodies of about 35 others taken captive on Oct. 7, are still in Gaza, the Israeli authorities say.

Nearly five million Lego pieces plunged into the sea in 1997. The pieces are still showing up — on England’s coast, in Ireland, Belgium, France and possibly at the beach near you.

The Israeli military said Sunday that Hamas had killed the hostages before they were discovered by Israeli troops on Saturday.

The Arba’at dam fell apart after days of heavy rain, killing villagers and flooding communities.

The JOIDES Resolution, which for decades was key to advancing the understanding of the Earth and its innards, concluded what could be its final scientific expedition.