Pope Leo responded directly on Monday to a presidential attack. But since then, he said, some of his statements during his Africa trip have been misconstrued.

The truce appeared to mostly hold even as Israel said it had carried out strikes on what it called “terrorists” approaching its forces in southern Lebanon. Separately, a U.N. peacekeeper was killed.

Iran reversed course on reopening the strategic waterway, warning it would continue to block transit as long as the U.S. blockade of ships from Iranian ports remained in effect.

Bulgaria votes to elect a new parliament after mass protests brought down the previous government in December.

Cash-strapped Yemenis face rising frustration as exchange firms limit currency conversion amid ongoing liquidity crisis.

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Despite missing leading scorers Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves, the LA Lakers and LeBron James defeat Houston in opener.

The Black Sea country is holding its eighth election in five years, with Bulgarians yearning for the kind of prosperous life enjoyed by other Europeans.

Multiple ballistic missiles fired from eastern Sinpo area in seventh such test this year.

IRGC says the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the US stops blockading Iranian ports.

The United States and its allies have historically prioritized accurate but expensive defense solutions. Drones challenge that math.

The ship, the Mariana, was found overturned days after the Coast Guard lost contact with its crew, after a super typhoon struck.

Top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says US naval blockade of Iran’s ports is ‘a clumsy and ignorant decision’.

Pope Leo XIV said that news outlets misinterpreted his recent remarks as criticism of President Trump. The pontiff has called for an end to the violence in the Middle East but told reporters on Saturday he had no interest in debating the president.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they were closing the Strait of Hormuz until the U.S. blockade was lifted. Two Indian-flagged ships reported being hit as they tried to cross the passage.

The delegation told Cuba’s leadership that it had only a narrow window of time to make the economic and political changes demanded by the Trump administration.

Our reporter Andrew Higgins describes why Hungary’s voters chose Peter Magyar over Viktor Orban in a landslide, ending Orban’s 16 years in power.

The attacker fatally shot four people on the street before barricading himself inside a nearby supermarket, a prosecutor said.

UN Children’s Fund calls on Israeli authorities to investigate and ‘ensure full accountability’.

To leftists abroad, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain is a hero for standing up to President Trump. At home, Mr. Trump is seen as Mr. Sánchez’s political savior from thorny domestic challenges.

Mark Carney’s brand of centrist politics and his invitation to floor crossers with conservative convictions into the Liberal Party’s ranks have reshaped the country’s political economy.

The successor to Venezuela’s captured President Nicolás Maduro is purging the people who kept him in power.

Separate from the regular Iranian Navy, with boats that often go more than 115 miles per hour, it’s what a retired U.S. official calls a “disruptive force.”

The military said it would keep the vital waterway under its control until the U.S. ended its blockade of Iranian ports. The statement added to the uncertainty over access to the strait.

Leo is the third pontiff to visit the fossil fuel-rich country after John Paul II in 1992 and Benedict XVI in 2009.

Under-pressure Arsenal head to in-form Manchester City as their stranglehold on Premier League title race falters.

Donald Heflin, a senior fellow at Tufts University, says Iran has shown it doesn’t need nuclear weapons as a deterrent.

Israeli police confiscated and destroyed footballs that were being played with by children around Al-Aqsa mosque.

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Al-Noor is a UNRWA centre in Gaza providing education and support for visually impaired children.

His visit includes a trip to a shrine where enslaved Africans were baptized before being forced into the treacherous voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.

The Trump administration made the announcement hours after Iran said that the Strait of Hormuz was open to commercial ships.