The selection will be left to the U.N. Security Council, especially its five veto-wielding members — the United States, Russia, China, United Kingdom and France — that remain tight-lipped.

Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday said he will give up his seat in Parliament to focus on rebuilding his Fidesz-KDNP party.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's ratings are falling, and citizens are voicing despair, with the war in its fifth year, talks stalled and sanctions biting deeper.

Javier Milei is renewing Argentina's claim to the South Atlantic archipelago as Trump signals a break from decades of U.S. support for U.K. sovereignty.

The role of the two CIA agents, who were returning from destroying a clandestine drug lab in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, remains unclear.

Gunfire and explosions have rocked Mali's capital Bamako and other key cities in one of the most significant coordinated attacks in years, as armed groups, including jihadist insurgents and separatist rebels exploit worsening insecurity in the Sahel region.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. Navy is clearing Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz, a vital sea route for oil shipments whose disruption is increasingly threatening the global economy. Sweeping for underwater explosives could take months despite a tenuous ceasefire between the United States and Iran in the weekslong war,

Palestinians in Gaza held an election for the first time in 20 years as municipal elections were held there and in the West Bank on Saturday.