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The deadly heat wave that’s set temperature records across western Europe for more than a week has shifted east to scorch Hungary, Romania and the Balkans.

Fatima self-deported six months ago from Spokane out of fear of being detained, despite an ongoing asylum case. Her partner had been detained a little over a year earlier, an experience she said contributed to her fear of being detained and possibly separated from her 1-year-old child. She said she continues to live in fear of the Nicaraguan government’s crackdown on religious freedom and anyone who speaks against the president, but felt returning was a better choice.

The Kremlin expects U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to travel to Moscow to continue talks on ending the war in Ukraine once Washington is no longer preoccupied with the conflict with Iran, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with state television. “We’re ready to continue negotiations and discussion of the details and modalities — if not agreements, then at ...

LONDON – Andy Burnham, the Labour lawmaker expected to replace Keir Starmer as British prime minister, will outline his vision for Britain on Monday, his office said, promising to change how the nation is governed with power moving from ​London to the regions.

Russian attacks killed at least four people on Sunday in Ukraine's ​southeast and northeast, regional officials said. Strikes on the southeastern city of ⁠Zaporizhzhia killed two people and ‌injured 16, Regional Governor ​Ivan Fedorov said on Telegram. Pictures posted online by the governor showed a building ⁠ablaze and parts ‌of a ‌neighborhood reduced to rubble.

International human rights organizations are calling for an immediate halt to the deployment of 900 Sri Lankan soldiers and 140 police officers to Haiti, citing allegations of widespread child sexual abuse and exploitation during Sri Lanka’s previous mission in the Caribbean country and its failure to hold troops implicated in the abuse accountable. In a statement addressed to the United ...

CARACAS, Venezuela – Rescue teams raced on Sunday to find more survivors of the two powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela this week, with signs of life bringing occasional relief to a grim quest to whittle down a list of tens of thousands missing. The death toll from Wednesday's twin earthquakes rose to at least 1,450 as of Saturday as foreign rescue teams poured into La Guaira, the hardest-hit state of a country already mired in a deep political and ​economic crisis.

Prehistoric-looking shoebills are iconic because of their size and striking presence in the wetlands of East and Central Africa.

TOMBLAINE, France – Eleven people, including a pilot and 10 parachutists, were killed when a small plane crashed in the northeastern French town of ​Tomblaine on Sunday, narrowly missing nearby homes as their families watched, officials and a witness said.

The U.S. conducted a fresh round of strikes against multiple targets in Iran on Saturday, as a weekend of tit-for-tat attacks led both sides to claim violations of the ceasefire underpinning peace talks. The first American strikes on Friday came in response to Tehran’s strike on a container ship on Thursday, but Iran then hit another ship carrying Qatari oil on Saturday. “Iran was given a ...

WASHINGTON – Iran and the United States agreed to halt recent hostilities in the Gulf and renew talks regarding their dispute over the Strait of Hormuz, Axios reported on Sunday, a move that could end tit-for-tat strikes that had threatened to unravel an interim peace agreement.

Argentine President Javier Milei's cabinet chief, Manuel Adorni, resigned on Saturday following a scandal that led to investigations into his spending in recent years.

The off-duty soldiers were in a coffee shop near to Peace Square in Kramatorsk when a Russian glide bomb struck nearby. The owners had taped giant Xs across the windows to stop the regular explosions from shattering them. But the men were showered with glass all the same, a reminder that the fortified city that for years has offered troops a respite from combat has come into range for the ...

BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday he would resign within weeks and the country will hold early presidential and parliamentary elections, following 18 months of anti-government protests.

LAGUAIRA, Venezuela – The death toll from Venezuela's devastating twin earthquakes rose above 1,400 on Saturday as foreign rescue teams poured into the country and authorities pressed on with the search for survivors in the hardest-hit coastal areas...

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem rejected a U.S.-brokered security agreement between Lebanon and Israel on Saturday a day after it was signed, describing it as a surrender to Israel. In the latest example of ongoing hostilities despite repeated ceasefires and ​agreements, Israel launched a drone strike in Lebanon's south on Saturday...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. military said it struck Iran again, hours after a tanker was hit in the Strait of Hormuz, in the worst escalation since the two sides signed an interim peace deal two weeks ago. Each of the warring sides has accused the other of violating the agreement reached two weeks ago to end the four-month-old conflict...