Sukkot, a weeklong Jewish holiday celebrating the traditional gathering of the harvest, has gotten underway.
Residents in Mali's capital, Bamako, are struggling with a fuel shortage due to a blockade by a militant group linked to al-Qaida.
Russia has hosted a delegation of Afghanistanโs ruling Taliban government and warned against any foreign military presence in the country.
The newly elected mayor of a town in western Germany has been found with serious stab wounds.
Madrid Mayor Josรฉ Luis Martรญnez Almeida says two construction workers died and two more are missing after a building under renovation collapsed in central Madrid.
French President Emmanuel Macron faces increased pressure to resign after the collapse of his latest government.
Protests are being held in several countries protesting the war in Gaza and calling for its end as Israelis mark two years since the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Jerry has strengthened in the Atlantic Ocean on a path toward the Caribbean.
Early-season snowfalls have stranded hikers in two mountainous areas in western China, including several hundred at the base of Mount Everest.
Deloitte Australia will partially refund the Australian government for a report filled with apparent AI-generated errors.
Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling.
The United States under the Biden and Trump administrations has provided at least $21.7 billion in military assistance to Israel since the start of the Gaza war two years ago.
President Donald Trump says he is open to extending the free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada through a negotiation or seeking โdifferent dealsโ as he met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House.
Israelis are mourning the dead and fearing for the remaining hostages as they mark two years since Hamasโ Oct. 7 attack plunged the region into a devastating war.
A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.
The United Nations chief is lamenting that 25 years after a landmark U.N. resolution demanded equal participation for women in all efforts to promote peace, far too often women remain absent.
The American Civil Liberties Union is accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully punishing immigration detainees for past crimes by transferring them to a notorious Louisiana prison.
Palestinians in Gaza are anxiously following indirect talks between Israeli and Hamas officials in Egypt.
President Donald Trump is considering admitting far fewer refugee into the U.S. this year โ as few as 7,500, and mostly white Afrikaners.
Southern right whales, after coming back from the brink of extinction, are swimming in greater numbers off the coast of Argentinaโs Patagonia this year.
Venezuela has warned of an alleged plan by extremists to attack the shuttered U.S. Embassy complex in Caracas with explosives.
The Kremlin has welcomed U.S. President Donald Trumpโs comments about Russiaโs offer to extend the last remaining nuclear arms treaty with the United States, saying it raises hope for keeping the pact alive after it expires in February.
Israeli authorities say they have deported another 171 activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla, including Greta Thunberg.
Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago are fearing that a U.S. military strike in the Caribbean could kill them and their livelihoods.
Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francisโ more questionable financial reforms and decisions.
Roustan Hockey, Canada's last major wooden hockey stick factory, faces challenges from trade tensions.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has condemned a suspected arson attack on a mosque in an English coastal town.
The International Criminal Court has convicted a leader of the feared Janjaweed militia of playing a leading role in atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region over 20 years ago.
British author Jilly Cooper, known for her bestselling novels, including โRivalsโ and โRiders,โ has died.
France's new prime minister has resigned just a day after naming his government and following less than a month in office.
The United Nations reports that 18 children under 15 have been killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank this year.
Rescuers are scouring India's tea-growing hill district of Darjeeling in the search for several missing people.
Khaled el-Anani, a former Egyptian tourism and antiquities minister, has been nominated by UNESCO's executive board to become its first director from the Arab world.
Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino agreed to hold the World Cup draw in Washington, D.C. This decision was forged during a conversation at a Club World Cup match.
Australia and Papua New Guinea have signed a major defense treaty, which Beijing claims unfairly targets China.
Rescue workers are helping hundreds of hikers trapped by heavy snow at a tourist camp on Mount Everest in Tibet.
Sukkot, a week-long Jewish holiday celebrating the traditional gathering of the harvest, is getting underway.
France's new prime minister has named a government, bringing back former finance minister Bruno Le Maire as defense minister.
Somali government forces have ended a six-hour siege by militants at a major prison near the presidentโs office in Mogadishu.
The 190th Oktoberfest has come to a close, wrapping up the worldโs largest folk festival with the traditional Bavarian marksmenโs gun salute in Munich, after a bomb threat closed it for hours last week.
Syria has held its first parliamentary elections since Bashar Assad was ousted nearly a year ago.
Israel and Hamas are preparing for indirect negotiations in Egypt on Monday as hopes are rising for a possible ceasefire in Gaza.
Hundreds of thousands of people across several European cities have marched in support of Palestinians and an aid flotilla's attempt to reach Gaza.
Georgia's Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has accused the opposition of trying to overthrow his government.
At least five people were killed after Russia launched drones, missiles and guided aerial bombs at Ukraine overnight in a major attack that officials there said targeted civilian infrastructure.
Indonesian rescuers have recovered dozens of bodies over the weekend alone after a prayer hall at an Islamic boarding school collapsed last week.
Severe rainfall in Nepal has triggered landslides, lightning strikes, and flooding, killing at least 44 people on Sunday.
Typhoon Matmo has strengthened before making landfall in China, leading to the evacuation of around 347,000 people from Guangdong and Hainan provinces.
Minutes after journalists converged on the site of an Israeli strike in Gaza, cameraman Ibrahim Qannan began a live broadcast.
Georgia's police have used water cannons and pepper spray to push back protesters who tried to storm the presidential palace.
International journalists have been given a rare and limited glimpse of Gaza City under the supervision of the Israeli military.
Residents of the tiny village in southern Bosnia were marking one year since devastating floods and a landslide killed 19 people.
Authorities in Brazil have issued warnings about methanol poisoning linked to distilled beverages.
Russian drones have struck a Ukrainian railway station in an attack that killed one person and wounded dozens.
Populist Czech billionaire Andrej Babiลก has won a parliamentary election, marking a political comeback.
Hundreds of thousands of Italians and Spaniards marched in Rome, Barcelona and Madrid against Israelโs military campaign in Gaza in a massive show of growing international anger at the two-year war.
U.K. police have been given extra time to question four people arrested on suspicion of terror offenses after an attack on a synagogue in northwest England.
Ivan Klima, a Czech author and anti-communist dissident whose work and life were shaped by Europeโs 20th-century totalitarian regimes, has died.
Israel's prime minister says he hopes to announce the release of all hostages from Gaza โin the coming daysโ as Israel and Hamas prepare for indirect talks in Egypt on a new U.S. plan to end the war.
Germanyโs Munich Airport has reopened after authorities shut it down for the second time in less than 24 hours after two confirmed drone sightings.
In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the new president of Japanโs long-governing Liberal Democrats is one of the most conservative members of the male-dominated party seen as an obstacle to womenโs advancement.
Hungary remains firm in maintaining its supplies of Russian oil and gas, even as the European Union accelerates efforts to cut Russian energy imports.
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have been trading barbs using the term "paper tiger," a phrase popularized by the Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong.
Japanโs governing party has elected former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi as its new leader, making her likely to become the countryโs first female prime minister.
The United States is accusing Colombiaโs president of undermining progress to lasting peace and urged its government to make combating violence and drug trafficking by โnarco-terrorist groupsโ a priority.
The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to strip legal protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants.
A Spanish-language journalist who lived and worked in Georgia has been deported to El Salvador.
Hundreds of mourners gathered in wind and rain for a vigil that combined grief and defiance in the remembrance of two men who were killed when a knife-wielding assailant attacked their synagogue in the English city of Manchester.
For the first time, a woman will serve as the Archbishop of Canterbury, following the 105 men who have held the role since St. Augustine took that position in the year 597.
A Palestinian activist arrested by the Trump administration in March says she feels helpless as she remains jailed while her family in Gaza suffers amid ongoing conflict.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he ordered another strike on a small boat he accused of carrying drugs off Venezuela.
