A top Vatican official says that Pope Leo XIV's lung cancer diagnosis is “a bit of a gamechanger” for the Vatican

A Nigerian government investigation panel has found that 37 suspected illegal miners suffocated in an overcrowded cell last month

A court has ordered the closure of one of Egypt’s last independent news outlets, Mada Masr, after convicting its editor-in-chief on charges of operating a website without a license

The United Nations says that 36,000 people have fled violence in Ethiopia into Kenya

An attack with explosives near a bridge on Colombia's border with Venezuela injured at least four police officers in Cucuta

Pope Leo XIV has denounced the religious justification for wars raging around the world, saying “there is no such thing as a holy war.”

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has reignited the Brexit debate by suggesting the U.K. should seek closer ties with the European Union, and even consider rejoining

Serbia’s youth movement pulled out a stunning election victory at the weekend against the country’s long-time strongman ruler Aleksandar Vucic

The Vatican says Pope Leo XIV will meet with survivors of clergy sexual abuse during his upcoming trip to Latin America

Tanzania’s jailed opposition leader Tundu Lissu has ended a brief hunger strike after prison authorities allowed him to meet privately with his younger brother

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorized the deployment of 510 soldiers to KwaZulu-Natal following recent violence in Durban over a court ruling on asylum seekers

A Turkish parliamentary committee has approved a defense agreement with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan

Indonesia and Singapore have agreed to work together to tackle illegal land burning, which has caused a toxic haze across Southeast Asia

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church reports that two attacks in Oromia have killed at least 60 Orthodox Christians

Gunmen killed at least 62 people in an attack on a community in northeastern Nigeria

Indian authorities have evacuated tens of thousands of people from vulnerable coastal areas in the eastern state of Andhra Pradesh as a severe cyclone over the Bay of Bengal is expected to make landfall along the country’s east coast

A tornado has hit a construction site in Antalya, Turkey, killing four workers and injuring another

A German court has rejected a defense request to end the trial of a former Ukrainian army officer who is accused of damaging the Nord Stream gas pipelines built to carry Russian gas to Western Europe in blasts four years ago

It could be weeks or even months before we know who will be Israel’s next prime minister

Environmentalists, Indigenous groups and climate scientists are relieved after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's reelection in Brazil