A winter storm brought snow, ice and freezing temperatures to a broad swath of the U.S. on Sunday, with some 60 million people across more than a dozen states from Kansas to New Jersey under winter weather warnings and advisories.

North Korea fired a ballistic missile out to sea off its east coast on Monday, coinciding with a visit by U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Seoul during a period of political turmoil in South Korea.

South Korean investigators will seek an extension of a warrant to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, an official said on Monday, as an anti-graft agency asked police to take over efforts to execute the arrest of the embattled leader.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is increasingly likely to announce he intends to step down, though he has not made a final decision, a source familiar with Trudeau’s thinking said on Sunday.

Austria headed towards coalition talks led by the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) after efforts to form a government without the party fell apart and prompted Chancellor Karl Nehammer to resign.

Former Greek prime minister Costas Simitis, who led the country into the European Union’s single currency in 2001, died aged 88 at his summer house in the Peloponnese.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that Syria’s new leadership is determined to root out separatists there, as Ankara said its military had “neutralised” 32 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, in the country.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have seized a strategic eastern town near the provincial capital Goma in Democratic Republic of Congo, local politicians said.

A second group of 75 Guatemalan soldiers arrived in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince to boost a United Nations-backed mission tasked with restoring order amid chaos wrought by gangs, the mission said.

Russia declared a regional state of emergency in Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, as workers cleared tons of contaminated sand and earth on either side of the Kerch Strait following an oil spill in the Black Sea last month.

The pro-Russian breakaway Moldovan region of Transdniestria, left without Russian gas supplies no longer transiting through neighbouring Ukraine, faced longer periods of rolling power cuts, local authorities said.

Talks between Austria’s two main centrist parties on forming a coalition government without the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) collapsed, prompting conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer to announce he would step down.