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BERLIN – One person has been killed and 17 injured, with some in life-threatening condition, after a vehicle mowed down a crowd near Berlin’s Pride celebrations on Saturday evening, setting off a manhunt for the driver, the police and fire brigade said.

Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin to consider freezing the war in Ukraine and returning to a revamped version of the 2022 Istanbul talks, in a rare public nudge toward peace from one of Moscow’s closest partners. Tokayev, speaking at a meeting with Putin in the Siberian city of Omsk on Saturday, said he was receiving numerous signals from Europe and the ...

BRASILIA, Brazil – Brazil has denied visa requests for two officials in U.S. President Donald Trump's administration who planned to travel to the country to cast doubt on the integrity of its electoral system, two Brazilian officials with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Saturday.

A sprawling swamp in Georgia on Saturday joined Yellowstone National Park, the Great Barrier Reef, the Taj Mahal and other iconic places around the globe as the latest UNESCO World Heritage site.

NEW DELHI – Indian youth protesters called off weeks of demonstrations and celebrated in the streets on Saturday after the education minister quit and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government bowed to demands including calls to fix a cheating-prone exam system.

The United States and Iran exchanged limited strikes with the latest round of hostilities passing the two-week mark, after President Donald Trump warned of a potential “massive attack” to try and force through a peace deal.

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to meet with President Donald Trump early next week, according to a White House official, amid efforts to revive diplomatic talks to end the war with Russia.

Member states of the International Criminal Court voted to dismiss prosecutor Karim Khan for serious misconduct, the ICC said Friday.

WASHINGTON – Signs of the Iran war’s spread emerged this weekend despite a pause in U.S. strikes, as Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis attacked Saudi oil installations along the Red Sea coast and Iran accused Ukraine of targeting an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea.

President Donald Trump said a new civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia depends on the kingdom normalizing ties with Israel, a condition that could derail a landmark deal his administration finalized just a day earlier.

The Iran-backed Houthis claimed their first attack on commercial ships in recent months, opening a new front in the U.S.-Iran war that has already disrupted global energy supplies and rattled bond markets.

The Trump administration has agreed to work with Saudi Arabia to develop a civilian nuclear program, a watershed moment following a years-long effort to curb the proliferation of nuclear technology in the Middle East.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deserves to face justice for his alleged crimes against humanity — but New York City and the NYPD can’t make the arrest.

Donald Trump has suffered a setback in his $10-billion defamation case against the BBC after a judge ruled the U.S. president must turn over financial records sought by the broadcaster.

After U.S. strikes on Iran’s largest nuclear facilities last year, both President Donald Trump and the White House were adamant that the Middle East nation’s nuclear program had been destroyed. “Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images. Obliteration is an accurate term!” Trump wrote on social media. “Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated — ...

KYIV, Ukraine – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday named a young major general, Mykhailo Drapatyi, as the commander-in-chief of Ukraine's military after days of street protests, marking the biggest shake-up in the country's military leadership since its war with Russia began.

Israeli troops have withdrawn from parts of southern Lebanon under a U.S.-mediated ceasefire agreement, which aims to keep Iran-backed Hezbollah away from the Israeli border and end nearly five months of conflict. The move comes after Lebanese President Joseph Aoun traveled to Washington for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday. It was the first between leaders of the two ...

More than 140 people have died or gone missing in several incidents off the coast of Mauritania after trying to cross from West Africa to Europe, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.

OTTAWA, Canada – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to intensify trade negotiations after speaking on Tuesday, but warned he would consider all options if the tariffs Trump threatened on Monday go ahead. Trump on Monday unveiled plans for 50% tariffs on a wide range of imports from Canada in retaliation to what he ​described as discriminatory treatment of American-made cars, alcohol and dairy goods.