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A high-ranking Russian military official was killed Friday in an explosion in a suburb of Moscow, in what authorities are treating as a case of murder. The incident coincides with the meeting of President Donald Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, in Moscow for high-stakes talks with President Vladimir Putin.

India and Pakistan have exchanged fire along their heavily patrolled and contested border in the Kashmir region, escalating tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors just days after a terror attack killed 26 people on the Indian side of the disputed region.

President Donald Trump has pressed for quickly deporting hundreds of Venezuelan and Salvadoran men who are said to belong to a foreign crime gang.

In Spokane to accept an award for distinguished public service, former U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on the next generation to take up the mantle. The former Secretary of Defense and CIA director also leveled many veiled criticisms at President Trump.

Russia killed at least 12 people and injured 90 others in a huge attack on the Ukrainian capital early Thursday, prompting President Donald Trump to issue a rare public critique of Moscow just hours after he lashed out at President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine.

In a crisis-wracked nation where hospitals were hurting even before U.S. aid freezes earlier this year and gangs torched or gutted many medical facilities, the University Hospital of Mirebalais was among the last still standing.

 Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday called on Ukraine to accept a U.S. peace proposal that closely mirrors long-standing Russian demands, including a "freeze" of territorial lines in the three-year war, acceptance of the annexation of Crimea by Russia and a prohibition on Ukraine becoming part of the NATO alliance.

The body of the deceased Pope Francis was transferred on Wednesday to St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, where he will lie in state for viewing by the public until his funeral.

Pope Francis’s death initiates carefully choreographed proceedings that will conclude with the election of a new pontiff. Francis’s funeral will be held at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City at 10 a.m. local time Saturday. Tens of thousands of mourners, including President Donald Trump, are expected to attend. Here’s what to know.

MEXICO CITY — Mexico's president said Monday that her government has asked television stations to pull a commercial produced by the Trump administration warning against undocumented migration to the United States. Calling the ad "discriminatory," President Claudia Sheinbaum also vowed to send legislation to Congress that would ban the commercial and others that are similar. In the ad, which ...

TEL AVIV - Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, drew outrage Monday when he said returning Israeli hostages still held by Hamas is not the war’s “most important goal.”

The search party fanned out to scout for any sign of four American soldiers - and their 70-ton vehicle - who last month vanished in the night deep in the woods outside Pabrade, near Lithuania’s border with Belarus.

The death of Pope Francis sets in motion a carefully orchestrated transition aimed at ensuring the stability and continuity of the Roman Catholic Church, with its nearly 1.4 billion followers around the world. The process is steeped in history and governed by formality - though Francis toned down certain aspects in guidance issued last fall. Here’s what to know.

Throughout his papacy, Francis was a change agent, having inherited a Vatican in disarray in 2013 after the stunning resignation of his predecessor, Benedict XVI, a standard-bearer of Roman Catholic conservatism.