The latest U.S. military strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed three people Sunday, according to a social media post by U.S. Southern Command. The Trump administration's campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has gone on since early September and

Palestinian officials say local elections in Gaza and the West Bank mark a step toward a long-delayed presidential election. The Palestinian Authority hasn't held a presidential election in 21 years.

The two leaders have served in coalition before, and will seek to unite a fragmented opposition with little in common beyond a shared hostility toward Netanyahu.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and ​U.S. President Donald Trump ‌discussed the urgent need to get shipping moving again ​in the Strait ​of Hormuz during a call ⁠on Sunday, a Downing ​Street spokesperson said.

Energy shocks linked to the Iran war are pushing households across Africa and South Asia back to charcoal and firewood as cleaner cooking methods become more expensive and unreliable.

The death of the minister, Gen. Sadio Camara, a central figure in the country’s military government, comes amid escalating violence in the region.

Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia over the past day killed at least 16 people, authorities said Sunday as the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster prompted new warnings about risks posed by attacks near the plant during Russia’s more than four-year invasion of its neighbor.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, arrived at the Vatican on Monday for an audience with Pope Leo XIV, making her first foreign visit since being installed as the first woman leader of the Church of England and spiritual leader of millions of Anglicans around the world.