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Andrew and Tristan Tate, “hypermasculine” influencers and former professional kickboxers, remain jailed in Miami as their lawyer fights their possible extradition to the United Kingdom to face charges of rape and human trafficking.

Wildfires burning across Ontario have grown to 1.8 million acres over the weekend Premier Doug Ford said on Monday, as air quality from smoke improved in much of the province ​but remained unhealthy in parts of the U.S. Midwest.

Nicaragua's long-serving president Daniel Ortega said the Central American country will no longer hold elections, eliminating the possibility of an electoral challenge when his ​term ends next year and further entrenching the rule he shares with his wife.

Venezuelan authorities said Sunday that the death toll from the powerful twin earthquakes that struck the country’s northern coast nearly a month ago has risen to 5,208, as recovery efforts increasingly shift from emergency relief to the long-term challenges of environmental restoration and debris removal.

BUDAPEST – Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok has signed a constitutional amendment passed by Prime Minister Peter Magyar's ruling Tisza party that ends his term as head of state, Sulyok said in a statement on Saturday. The legislation was part of Magyar's drive to dismantle former Prime Minister Viktor Orban's bastions of power, for which Magyar says he received a strong mandate from voters after ousting the right-wing leader in an April election landslide.

DUBAI – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they would impose a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, opening a potential new front against the United States in its war with Iran and raising the threat to global energy supplies and trade beyond the Gulf.

LONDON – Andy Burnham became Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade on Monday, pledging to reshape its politics to deliver a new economic model and revive a nation “fed up” with a revolving door of leaders.

The U.S. and Iran engaged in a quickening series of tit-for-tat attacks, causing fresh chaos in the Middle East as the U.S. military announced the death of a third U.S. troop in the past two days. A U.S. service member in northern Iraq was killed Saturday while trying to conduct a controlled detonation of an unexploded Iranian one-way attack drone, U.S. Central Command said in a social media ...

Andy Burnham is set to become the UK’s seventh prime minister in just over a decade on Monday with a number of outstanding questions about who will be in his cabinet and the policy direction he will pursue. In an address from Downing Street, the incoming premier will pledge to deliver tangible improvements in people’s lives, while stressing that his rise to high office is a moment for ...

At least one person was killed in what Ukraine’s foreign minister called the largest ballistic missile barrage aimed at Kyiv since the start of the Russia’s invasion more than four years ago. “Russia unleashed the largest number of ballistic missiles since the start of the war — around four dozen — in a brutal terrorist attack on the Ukrainian capital,” Andrii Sybiha said on X. “We need ...

Russia and Ukraine exchanged fresh airstrikes into Saturday, with Kyiv targeting several Russian regions with drones, including a deadly hit on facilities operated by a major online retailer, and Moscow hitting Ukrainian ports. Ukrainian UAVs damaged warehouses operated by Wildberries, one of Russia’s largest e-commerce marketplaces, in the Moscow region and in the town of Kotovsk in the ...

HAVANA – Cuban dissident artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is expected to travel to the United States in the coming days after completing a five-year prison sentence, according to a message posted by his family ​on Facebook.

For a couple reportedly plotting to “reverse Megxit,” Prince Harry and Meghan Markle certainly had some interesting ideas about how to make the British public like them again during their visit to the U.K. last week. Harry created weeks of “psychodrama” over his family’s travel plans by raising alarms about long-settled security arrangements and then by getting into a row with Buckingham ...

Mexican authorities were reporting no immediate damage after a strong earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the southern state of Chiapas, resulting in shaking hundreds of miles away in Mexico City.

The U.S. and Iran intensified their attacks beyond military targets during a sixth straight day of hostilities, increasing fears of a return to full war with no agreement reached over the Strait of Hormuz.

KYIV, Ukraine – Protesters in Kyiv called for the dismissal of Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s removal of a popular defense minister sparked outrage and demands for a more modern approach to warfare.

GENEVA – A United Nations meeting this week heard calls for an end to ageism and better protection against what campaigners say are hidden abuses as negotiations began on a treaty to strengthen the rights of older persons.