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Andy Burnham appears set to become the UK’s seventh prime minister in a decade after Keir Starmer laid out a timeline for his own departure and potential rivals backed a quick transition to the popular Manchester politician. Burnham’s path to 10 Downing St., which only months ago seemed remote, suddenly cleared on Monday when Starmer announced that he would relent to pressure and step aside as ...

At least 18 people died in France, including two children left in a hot car, as a heatwave hung over Europe, smashing temperature records in several cities on Monday.

Britain will get its seventh leader in a decade after Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned less than two years after he won a landslide election victory that promised to end his country's chaotic politics and reverse deepening public frustration with the cost of living and other economic woes.

The wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez must stand trial on corruption charges and has been banned from going abroad, a judge ruled on Saturday.

BUERGENSTOCK, Switzerland – The first round of talks between high-ranking U.S. and Iranian officials in Switzerland ended Monday, mediators said, after a tense opening marked by Tehran’s announcement it had again closed the Strait of Hormuz and President Donald Trump repeating his threats to resume attacks on Iran.

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — While Mexico defeated South Korea at Guadalajara Stadium on Thursday in front of an elated crowd, protesters outside expressed a very different view of the World Cup’s impact on the city.

Ramiro Valdes, one of Fidel Castro's earliest collaborators who was lauded at home as a hero of the Cuban revolution, has died at the age of 94, President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on social media on Sunday.

LA PAZ – A day of fragile gains in Bolivia saw major protest roadblocks cleared for the first time in weeks on Sunday, but progress was overshadowed by the crash of a military support flight that killed six people, authorities said.

Bolivia’s security forces began clearing road blockades after President Rodrigo Paz declared a state of emergency following 50 days of unrest that have severely disrupted the economy. Thirty-five blockades remained as of Saturday afternoon, down from the more than 100 in previous weeks and over 40 on Friday. Police and military officers have encountered no resistance from protesters so far, ...

LONDON – Britain’s Observer newspaper said Prime Minister Keir Starmer was expected to resign on Monday and set out a timetable for his departure, though a government source said Starmer remained focused on getting on with the job of governing.

CAIRO – Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least nine people, including a child and a journalist from Al Jazeera, in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, health officials said.

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – A woman was killed and nearly 1,700 tourists were evacuated due to a large fire at a hotel in the ​Dominican beach resort of Bayahibe, local authorities said on Friday.

Iran sought to assert control over the Strait of Hormuz by saying that ships need its permission and mandatory insurance in order to cross, even as the U.S. said that 20 ships had quietly sailed through overnight via a route along Oman’s coast.

President Donald Trump left no ambiguity as to how he felt about the Obama administration’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.

The Russian central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 14.25% on Friday, a smaller move than the 50 bps that analysts had expected, citing risks stemming from soft budget policy and a decline in fuel production.

GENEVA — The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that 75 health-care workers have been infected with the dangerous Ebola virus during the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Seventeen of them have died, Marie-Roseline Belizaire, the WHO's representative in Bunia, told reporters in Geneva on Friday. She said it was not clear in all cases whether they had been ...

The U.S.-Iran interim peace deal took effect and shipping started returning to the Strait of Hormuz as the United States declared an end to its blockade and a complex negotiating period over Tehran’s nuclear program began in earnest.