President Trump has announced that the U.S. is admitting 10,000 additional white South Africans as refugees, citing persecution in their home country.

A cruise ship at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak is undergoing further cleaning before it returns to its home port.

Parents’ groups in France are calling for more attention to child abuse scandals as a rare public trial opens in Paris.

President Donald Trump insists a peace deal is close on the 88th day of the Iran war.

Argentine authorities have seized more than 700 marine animals trafficked from Kenya in a major wildlife trafficking bust at Buenos Aires’ Ezeiza International Airport.

Iran has denounced the most recent U.S. strikes as a sign of bad faith as negotiations press on toward a possible deal to end the war.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has hired British conductor Daniel Harding as its next music director.

A spring heat wave is scorching parts of Western Europe, breaking temperature records and triggering government warnings.

A train traveling at high speed hit a minibus crossing a railway in Belgium, killing four people, including two children, and injuring five other children.

Ukraine’s air force says Russia launched over 100 drones and two ballistic missiles at Ukraine overnight.

A search operation for seven villagers trapped inside a flooded cave in central Laos has entered its seventh day as rescuers encounter difficult terrain and weather in their bid to reach the group.

Israel's military is clashing with the militant Hezbollah group along a strategic river in Lebanon.

The U.S. stock market is rising as it catches up with climbs for others around the world from the day before, when President Donald Trump said negotiations were “proceeding nicely” with Iran on ending their war.

South Korea says North Korea has launched a close-range ballistic missile and other weapons toward the sea.

Australia, India, Japan and the United States have agreed new initiatives for maritime security, critical minerals, port infrastructure, and energy security to boost cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region amid concerns about China's influence.

Two planes carrying 19 Australian women and children linked to the Islamic State group in Syria have landed in Melbourne and Sydney.

Human Rights Watch reports that the United Arab Emirates trained Colombian mercenaries to fight alongside a paramilitary group in Sudan's war.

South Korean retail tycoon Chung Yong-jin has apologized for a second time in two weeks as Starbucks’ local operation faces a backlash over a recent marketing campaign that was widely perceived as mocking victims of a bloody military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1980.

Israel's military says its air force struck sites belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she has “no issue” with her country hosting Iran’s World Cup team after its training base was moved from the United States to Mexico for the summer soccer competition.

Health workers responding to a rapidly spreading outbreak of a rare type of Ebola in eastern Congo face two threats.

The U_S_ military said Monday that it carried out “self-defense” strikes in southern Iran, including on missile launch sites and boats placing mines, even as President Donald Trump said on social media that negotiations were “proceeding nicely.”.

Europe is baking under unseasonal heat that is shattering temperature records and prompting government warnings after deaths were reported at amateur sports events in France.

Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid says the U.S.-Iran deal fails to meet Israel's goals and criticized Prime Minister Netanyahu for allowing Washington to negotiate with little Israeli input.

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha has received a royal pardon from his 27-year treason sentence.

Cypriot YouTuber and TikToker Fidias Panayiotou says he’ll hold onto his European Parliament seat despite winning one in Cyprus’ House of Representatives.

Belarus' exiled opposition leader visits Kyiv as the city recovers from Russia’s largest missile attack of the year.

Ugandan health authorities on Monday reported two new Ebola cases, bringing the number of infections to seven.

The estranged husband of former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon has pleaded guilty to embezzling over 400,000 pounds from the Scottish National Party.

Pope Leo XIV has called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit.

Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery.

Gladys Marín is unsure if she will vote in Colombia's presidential election due to safety fears.

Rescuers have pulled three people from the rubble of a collapsed nine-story hotel under construction in Angeles City, Philippines.

An Australian spy agency boss has told an inquiry he had pivoted resources away from counterterrorism to espionage and foreign a few years before two gunmen massacred 15 people at Sydney Hanukkah celebration.

Toshifumi Suzuki, the Japanese businessman credited with creating the 7-Eleven convenience-chain global retail empire, has died.

The film “Pressure” explores the tense 72 hours before D-Day, highlighting the crucial role of Scottish meteorologist Capt. James Stagg.

The annual Islamic Hajj pilgrimage, one of the Five Pillars of Islam, has begun.

Asian shares are mostly higher and oil prices have plunged after U.S. President Donald Trump said talks on ending the war with Iran are progressing.

A local hospital official says that angry young men stormed a hospital treating Ebola patients at the heart of an outbreak in eastern Congo, demanding the bodies of their relatives.

President Donald Trump’s emerging deal to end the Iran war is drawing heavy criticism from some fellow Republicans.

China has launched the Shenzhou 23 spacecraft with three astronauts heading to its space station.

Regional officials say the United States is close to a deal with Iran to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Police have stormed the offices of Turkey’s main opposition CHP party, using tear gas and rubber bullets.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a railway track as a passenger train passed through the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, killing at least 23 people and wounding over 70 others, officials said.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is holding talks with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.

Authorities in northern China are investigating a coal mine operator for safety lapses after an explosion killed at least 82 people.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia used the powerful hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile in a mass attack on Kyiv.

A nine-story building under construction in a city north of the Philippine capital has collapsed, leaving at least one Malaysian tourist dead and 21 workers trapped.

The U.K.’s Royal Navy is preparing for a potential mine-clearing operation in the Strait of Hormuz.

The president of the governing body of Iranian soccer says the nation’s World Cup training base has been moved to Mexico from the United States after getting approval from FIFA.

Clashes have erupted between protesters and riot police after a massive anti-government rally in Serbia's capital, Belgrade.

The U.S. military has conducted a rapid response exercise in Venezuela’s capital.

South African activists detained while trying to breach Israel's blockade of Gaza have alleged abuse by Israeli soldiers.

President Donald Trump says a deal with Iran, including opening the Strait of Hormuz, has been “largely negotiated.”.

Angry residents in eastern Congo have attacked and burned a tent that was part of a health center treating Ebola patients.

France has banned Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, citing his "unspeakable" behavior toward activists from a flotilla to Gaza.

A Ukrainian drone attack has caused a fire at a Russian oil terminal, according to officials in Russia’s Krasnodar region.

Pope Leo XIV has visited families near Naples affected by illegal toxic dumping linked to the mafia.

Cristian Mungiu’s Norway-set drama about political polarization “Fjord” has won the Palme d’Or.

Bundibugyo is the somewhat easy-to-mispronounce name of a species of Ebola.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has arrived in India ahead of a meeting next week with his counterparts from India, Australia, and Japan, members of the Indo-Pacific strategic alliance known as the Quad.

Chinese local officials say that a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern Shanxi province has killed at least 82 people.

A four-week conference at the United Nations to review the treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons has ended without an agreement as the United States and Iran spar over Iran's nuclear program.

The 18 American passengers who were exposed to hantavirus on a cruise ship are getting a taste of Nebraska hospitality as they wait to find out how much longer they will have to remain in quarantine at the hospital in Omaha.

Activists detained after their flotilla tried to breach Israel's naval blockade of Gaza have reported mistreatment by Israeli soldiers.

The Trump administration’s strategy against Cuba is looking a lot like the playbook for Venezuela.

A bipartisan group of senators is pushing back on delays by the Department of Defense in sending roughly $600 million in security aid to Ukraine and other allies in eastern Europe.

A bipartisan group of senators is departing for a tour of Arctic nations to reassure U.

An imprisoned Belarusian journalist's relatives say he has fallen seriously ill.

Bruce Dern had to play the long game.

Hundreds of Ukrainians have marched through Kyiv to demand that the government veto a bill they say could prematurely declare missing soldiers dead.

European Union officials say that Europeans can expect oil and gas prices to remain above what they were before the Iran war for at least until the end of 2027.

Authorities in northeastern Congo have banned funeral wakes and gatherings of more than 50 people to curb a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak.

Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as President Trump’s director of national intelligence, citing her husband's battle with cancer.

The head of a far-left Greek militant group that killed four American officials and 19 others has been released from a maximum-security prison.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “slight progress” has been made during talks with Iran.

Taiwan's government says it hasn't been notified of any pause in a planned $14 billion U.S. arms sale to the self-governing island.

The U.S. Marines have demonstrated their capabilities with a live-fire exercise in Japan, showcasing the HIMARS mobile rocket system.

A giant stew pot is floating in a small lake in The Hague as part of an open-air art exhibition.

A renowned Mount Everest guide who scaled the peak a record 32nd time this week says there's an urgent need to limit climbers on the summit.

Kenya’s public transport operators on have called off a nationwide strike that had been suspended for a week to allow talks over rising fuel prices.

NATO allies and defense officials have expressed bewilderment at U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would send 5,000 U.S. troops to Poland.

The United States has sanctioned Tanzania’s police chief and barred him from entering the U.S., citing alleged human rights violations committed by the police force.

Raúl Castro rarely makes public appearances these days.

Large numbers of Muslims converge once a year in Saudi Arabia to unite in a series of religious rituals and acts of worship as they perform the Hajj, the pilgrimage that is one of the pillars of Islam.

British police are appealing for witnesses as they expand their investigation into potential offenses by the former Prince Andrew, now Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.

From 221B Baker Street in central London to a cliffside waterfall in the Swiss Alps, generations of armchair detectives are celebrating International Sherlock Holmes Day.

The split between Wall Street and most U.S. households keeps growing wider.

Serbia’s university students are gearing up for a major rally this weekend, pushing for political changes under President Aleksandar Vucic.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio already faced a difficult task in soothing NATO allies anxious about President Donald Trump's often-abrupt announcements.

The Cannes Film Festival's amfAR Gala has dazzled attendees with performances by Robbie Williams, Zara Larsson, and Lizzo.

Puerto Rico Gov. Jenniffer González is pledging to boost the amount of electric energy available to power the U.S. territory as chronic outages persist.

President Donald Trump has stirred confusion by saying the U.S. will send an additional 5,000 American troops to Poland.

Canada's federal broadcast regulator is requiring large online streaming services to contribute 15% of their Canadian revenues to Canadian content.

A Paris appeals court has found Airbus and Air France guilty of manslaughter in the 2009 crash of Flight 447 from Rio to Paris.

The official overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza is urging the U.N. Security Council to use “every means at its disposal” to press Hamas to disarm.

President Donald Trump has again raised the specter of U.S. military intervention in Cuba.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said that she and the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin agreed to maintain bilateral cooperation rooted in mutual respect.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on Lebanese officials for allegedly maintaining Hezbollah's influence over state institutions.

Federal authorities in the United States have charged former Cuban President Raúl Castro and five fighter pilots in the 1996 downing of civilian planes operated by Miami-based exiles.