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A German police office that provides security for leading politicians says it plans to increase the number of bodyguards significantly over the coming years

Sweden says that Iran was behind thousands of text messages that were sent to people in the Scandinavian country calling for revenge over the burnings of Quran, Islam’s holy book in 2023

Sweden says Iran was behind thousands of text messages to Swedes calling for revenge over 2023 Quran burnings

Hurricane John has struck Mexico’s southern Pacific coast with life-threatening flood potential

Hurricane John weakens to Category 2 strength inland from Mexico’s southern Pacific coast

State-run media in Turkey says an Australian women has been arrested in Turkey over her alleged links to a Kurdish militant group

Pope Francis will be visiting Belgium on a trip starting Thursday, facing a flock ravaged by countless scandals of priest sexual abuse and dwindling in the face of modernity, where women and gays insist on an equal role and rights

Palestinian officials say Israel’s strikes early Tuesday killed at least seven people in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis

Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa has asked her Chinese counterpart to ensure the safety of Japanese citizens there after a 10-year-old schoolboy was fatally stabbed

When Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opens the United Nations’ General Assembly on Tuesday, he is expected to call on the world to do more to combat climate change

Workers are set to begin the reconstruction of the 400-year-old Old Stock Exchange in Copenhagen five months after a devastating fire destroyed more than half of the building

As fighting between Israel and Hezbollah escalates, Palestinians in Gaza are fearful their plight is being overlooked by the international community

A former Singaporean cabinet minister pleaded guilty to charges of receiving illegal gifts trial Tuesday, in the Asian financial hub’s first ministerial criminal trial in nearly half a century

Category 3 Hurricane John hits southern Mexico’s Pacific coast with fierce winds and potentially catastrophic flooding

The Egmont Group, an international organization that fights money laundering, said it will suspend Colombia from its global information sharing platform

John strengthens to a Category 3 hurricane before landfall in southern Mexico tonight

A federal court in Argentina has ordered the “immediate” arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello for alleged crimes against humanity committed against dissidents

A tsunami advisory for remote Japanese islands has been lifted after small waves wash ashore

China's central bank reduces required reserves for lenders, part of a slew of moves to support the slowing economy

ABC's Bob Woodruff joins Indigenous patrols & government forces in the Amazon rainforest as they fight to reclaim their Indigenous territories and national parks from environmental ruin.

A judge in Brazil’s northeastern Pernambuco state has ordered the preventive arrest of Gusttavo Lima, one of the nation’s biggest country music stars, in connection with a money laundering investigation

Small tsunami waves splashed ashore on some Japanese islands after an earthquake that may have been triggered by volcanic activity

Japan issues a tsunami advisory for remote islands south of Tokyo after a strong earthquake.

Scientists believe the moon's water, chemistry and energy could support life.

Plus, former President Donald Trump rejects a challenge from Vice President Kamala Harris for another debate.

Congo's minister of justice says nearly 1,700 ill inmates have been released from the country's largest prison as part of an effort to thin out Congo's overcrowded prisons

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to meet with President Joe Biden on Thursday at the U.N. General Assembly to discuss his country's "victory plan."

A Russian court has handed a six-year prison sentence to an American man convicted on charges linked to his attempt to illegally take his 4-year old son out of Russia

Flora tends to sprout quickly once the typically dry landscape gets water.

Hundreds were killed and wounded on Monday, Lebanese authorities said.

Death toll from Israeli strikes across Lebanon rises to 492, Lebanese health ministry says

John rapidly strengthens into a hurricane off Mexico's southern coast; it's forecast to become major storm

Thousands of people are fleeing south Lebanon as Israel carries out its deadliest bombardment in the country since its war with Hezbollah in 2006

Death toll from Israeli strikes in Lebanon rises to 356, Lebanese health ministry says

Tensions have been rising in the French Pacific territory New Caledonia after four months of deadly unrest

Pakistan’s state-run media says a senior army general has been tapped as the new spy chief

A soccer pitch in London collapsed and parts of the United Kingdom are submerged by flash floods after some areas saw a month’s worth of rainfall in 24 hours

Sara Bsaiso, 18, is among the more than 12,000 children and teens injured in Gaza. She is one of the select few who have been able to receive care in the U.S.

The trial into the brutal killing of a 22-year-old woman has started in Italy

Israeli military says it has carried out a targeted strike in Beirut, without giving details

South Korea officials said Pyongyang has launched 5,500 balloons across the border since May.

Israel's Netanyahu urges Lebanese civilians to heed Israeli calls to evacuate and to 'take this warning seriously'

Forecasters have issued hurricane watches for parts of Cuba and Mexico as a cluster of storms located south of the Cayman Islands could strengthen in upcoming days as it moves north toward the U.S. The National Hurricane Center says the disturbance may...

Senegal's military says at least 30 bodies were found on a boat drifting off the coast of Dakar along a route used by migrants

Unseasonably late snowstorms battered coastal areas of South Africa over the weekend, killing two people and forcing the closure of some of the country’s major highways

Lebanese health minister says 274 people have been killed in ongoing Israeli strikes, more than 1,000 wounded

Syria’s new prime minister has named his Cabinet with a new foreign minister

Police have arrested Tanzania’s most prominent opposition figures whose party has called for protests against what it says is a crackdown targeting its supporters

Israel is bombing targets across many parts of Lebanon, striking senior militants in Beirut and apparently hiding bombs in pagers and walkie-talkies

Soldiers and other government personnel are doing cleanup and repair work in Myanmar, where floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Yagi and monsoon rains more than a week ago left at least 380 dead and 89 missing