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Officials say Pakistan’s prime minister has called for closer cooperation between Saudi Arabia and his cash-strapped Islamic nation to enhance Saudi investment in his country

The artist and curators representing Israel at this year’s Venice Biennale have announced they won’t open the Israeli pavilion exhibition until there is a cease-fire in Gaza and an agreement to release hostages

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has told Chinese leader Xi Jinping who hosted him in Beijing that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine threatens global security, in an apparent call for China to apply greater pressure on its neighbor to end the war

"400 years of Danish cultural heritage" has gone up in flames: Official

Brazilian police investigating the discovery of a boat full of corpses say the dead were likely African migrants from Mali and Mauritania

Heavy rains have lashed the United Arab Emirates, flooding out portions of major highways and leaving vehicles abandoned on roadways across Dubai

A fire has raged through one of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings, causing the collapse of the iconic spire from the 17th-century Old Stock Exchange as passersby rushed to help emergency services save priceless paintings and other valuables

Nissan says it expects to mass produce electric vehicles powered by advanced next-generation batteries by early 2029

A 16-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene, police said.

A teenager has been accused of wounding a Christian bishop and priest during a church service in a second high-profile knife attack to rock Sydney in recent days, leaving communities on edge, leaders calling for calm and a besieged church urging agains...

Six people are dead after a boat carrying a group of people capsized in a river in Indian-controlled Kashmir

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says police have seized the largest haul of methamphetamine in the country in years without anybody being killed, in a subtle criticism of his predecessor’s notoriously deadly crackdown on illegal drugs

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of a 3-year-old girl and her mother who were the last victims still missing after landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island that killed 20 people

Raj Sud, 94, has voted in almost every election held in independent India, bearing witness to the eventful journey of a diverse, and now the world’s most populous, democracy over the last 76 years. Nearly 970 million people are eligible to vote in India’s 6-week national election starting Friday, and the elderly homemaker has a clear favorite in the race. Most polls have predicted a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party for a third straight five-year term. “I like Modi very much. Modi is working honestly. And he is doing very good work and wants to make the whole country absolutely beautiful,” said Sud. Modi is considered a champion of the country’s Hindu majority and has overseen rapid economic growth during his last two terms. But critics say he's also undermined India’s democracy and its status as a secular nation with attacks by Hindu nationalists against the country’s minorities and a shrinking space for dissent and free...

China’s economy beat expectations in the first quarter of the year with help from policies and stronger demand

China's economy grew at 5.3% in the first quarter, beating estimates with help from policies and better demand

ABC News' Marcus Moore reports on the year-long war in Sudan that's forcing millions to flee and inflaming the humanitarian situation in the region.

Australian police say a knife attack in Sydney against 2 clergymen is being treated as terrorism

Iran launched an unprecedented strike against Israel coming almost a month after Israel’s deadly attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria.

Mass coral reef bleaching can subject coral to mortality without intervention.

The mayor of Colombia’s capital has announced new measures to reduce water consumption in the city of eight million people, where a drought associated with the El Niño weather pattern has already prompted officials to ration water in most neighborhoods...

Chris Costa, former National Security Council senior director for counterterrorism, shares his analysis of what this means for both countries going forward.

Lawmakers in Georgia’s legislature have scuffled as the parliament started debating a divisive new law dubbed the foreign agent bill

Israel is still weighing its response to Iran's attack with a second day of war cabinet meetings. Israel's military chief says, "Israel will indeed respond."

A political prisoner in Belarus has shed light on the country’s brutal prison system by smuggling out her story written on pieces of toilet paper

Kirby, however, did say during his press briefing that the U.S. is committed to defending Israel.

Israel’s military chief says Israel will respond to Iran’s weekend missile strike

Israeli military chief warns "there will be a response" to Iranian missile attack

A U.S. citizen arrested on drug charges in Moscow amid soaring Russia-U.S. tensions has appeared in court

Prince Harry’s fight for police protection in the U.K. has received another setback

An Israeli court has ordered the eviction of Palestinian family in a deeply contested neighborhood of east Jerusalem

The horrifying incident was captured on the church’s livestream.

French president says world donors are pledging 2 billion euros in aid for Sudan after a year of devastating war

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister is leading a high-level delegation on a two-day visit to Pakistan, which is seeking help in overcoming one of its worst economic crises

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with his war cabinet for the second time after being unable to make a final decision.

Heavy rainfall has caused flash flooding in Oman on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula and killed at least 17 people

The U.S. secretary of state has assured allies bordering the Black Sea they can depend on his country's support to make the region more secure, prosperous and integrated

Authorities in North Macedonia say 17 police officers serving at a prison in the country’s capital Skopje have been detained on suspicion of assisting in the separate escapes last year of two inmates, including a murder convict

Ukraine’s foreign minister says the success of Israel and its allies in largely thwarting a massive Iranian missile and drone attack shows what Ukraine could achieve against Russian aerial barrages if it had more support from its partners

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.

The Philippine president says his administration has no plan to give the U.S. military access to more Philippine army sites

The operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it has obtained permission from safety regulators to start loading atomic fuel into a reactor at its only operable plant in Japan, which it is keen to restart for the first time sin...

Iran’s direct attack on Israel over the weekend upended decades of its shadowy warfare by proxy, something Tehran has used to manage international repercussions for its actions

Australian police say a knife attack in Sydney that wounded a bishop and a priest during a church service as horrified worshippers watched online and in person was an act of terrorism

Police say a man is arrested after reportedly stabbing a bishop and churchgoers in Sydney, with no major injuries.

A police operation is underway in Wakeley, New South Wales.

The European Union has disbursed about $6.7 billion to Poland as a part of the 27-nation bloc’s post-pandemic recovery fund, the biggest single transfer ever to the country

A local official in eastern Congo says extremist-linked rebels attacked villages over the weekend, killing at least 11 people, torching vehicles and taking possessions

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for fair competition in trade relations with China while warning about dumping and overproduction while speaking to students in Shanghai on Monday

Lawyers for Azerbaijan are urging the top United Nations court to throw out a case filed by Armenia linked to the long-running dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region