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Seventeen missionaries from the U.S. and Canada were abducted Saturday. The 400 Mawozo gang has been asking for $1 million per hostage.

At least 140 countries are partnering with China as part of its Belt and Road Initiative, which is building infrastructure and development across the world. NBC News' Vaughn Hillyard reports.

The spike in Covid cases is the highest number reported in the U.K. in three months. Overall cases are up 18 percent in just the past week. Officials there are investigating the delta plus mutation, while Dr. Anthony Fauci says there’s no cause for alarm in the U.S. at this point.

Video posted on social media shows the leader of the gang authorities say kidnapped 17 missionaries in Haiti threatening to kill them if his ransom demands aren’t met. 

Recently China conducted a hypersonic test and flew nearly 150 fighters and bombers over four days near Taiwan. Defense officials tell NBC News that the flights were to intimidate Taiwan and give pilots a chance to learn the airspace.

"We are sentenced to death ... in life," an Argentine lawyer with an incurable disease asked on social media as Latin American countries debate whether to allow euthanasia.

Authorities say a 25-year-old British man with Somali heritage, Ali Harbi Ali, has been charged in the death of David Amess.

Colombian President Iván Duque spoke in favor of reopening the border to facilitate access to goods for Venezuelans, but warned he would not recognize the Maduro government.

The Latin American boom has caught the eye of some of the biggest names in private equity and venture capital with the rise of tech "unicorns" worth over $1 billion.

About half of India’s nearly 1.4 billion people have received at least one dose, while around 20 percent are fully immunized.

U.S. and coalition troops are based at al-Tanf to train Syrian forces on patrols to counter Islamic State group militants.