As many as nine people were feared dead Tuesday after a small private jet crashed into an apartment building in the midwestern U.S. city of Akron, local media reported, citing the plane's owner.

The plane, a twin-engine business jet, was on approach to the airport in the Ohio city when it crashed, reports said.

President Barack Obama's administration on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold measures shielding around four million undocumented migrants from deportation.

Thrusting the country's top court into the position of arbiter in a charged political row, the Justice Department said it would challenge lower court rulings that blocked Obama's efforts to reform immigration policy.

The United States has returned more than a million dollars to South Korea that were embezzled by a former dictator and hidden abroad, officials said Tuesday.

South Korea's former president Chun Doo Hwan was convicted of corruption in 1996 in his own country, but it took U.S. agents years to track down the assets.

A one-year-old baby and a seven-year-old girl were among six people shot dead in another day of violence in Mexico's troubled southern state of Guerrero, authorities said Tuesday.

At least one of the six victims in Monday's killing in the municipality of Chilapa was related to the town's former police chief, the state prosecutor's office said in a statement.

Authorities in France have arrested a man with links to an Islamic State jihadist in Syria over a plot to attack military personnel at a major naval base, police and judicial sources said Tuesday.

The 25-year-old, whom sources said had been monitored by intelligence agencies after trying unsuccessfully twice last year to travel to Syria, was held late last month and charged on November 2.

A Chinese naval flotilla arrived in Cuba Tuesday to bolster close military ties between the two Communist-ruled allies, its commander Wang Jianxun said.

"This is the first time a (Chinese) military flotilla has come to the island," Wang said at the Port of Havana.

Emergency service officials in Guatemala on Tuesday issued an orange alert over increasing eruptions from the country's southeastern Fuego volcano and ordered the evacuation of a nearby hotel.

The 3,763-meter (12,346-foot) high colossus -- whose name means "fire" in Spanish -- showed heightened activity overnight, sending columns of ash high into the sky, spilling lava down its side and provoking small tremors.

Clashes broke out between police and migrants living in temporary camps near the northern French port of Calais on Tuesday for a third night running.

Riot police used teargas and watercannon to end an hour-long standoff with the migrants, who started by throwing objects and insults at officers before lighting a wooden pallet on fire.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was hit Tuesday with the first open internal challenge to his leadership since taking power, with senior members of his party expressing anger at the loss of a key state election.

One-time Modi mentor LK Advani and three other veterans of his right-leaning Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) issued a statement that appeared to accuse the premier of failing to seek consensus, without naming him directly.

Kosovo's constitutional court on Tuesday suspended the implementation of a key EU-backed agreement with Serbia, after weeks of opposition protests against the deal.

The move came a day after the U.N. cultural body UNESCO rejected Kosovo as a member, in a vote hailed as a victory by Belgrade.