European lawmakers have voted to make it easier to send rejected asylum-seekers to detention sites in third countries, echoing tough U.S. deportation tactics that some far-right parties praise

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has observed a test of a high-thrust, solid-fuel engine for weapons

Kyiv offers its drone expertise to help Gulf Arab states blunt Iran’s attacks.

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have launch missiles toward Israel and raised fears of new attacks on Red Sea shipping

A humpback whale has become stranded again in the Baltic Sea after rescuers in Germany help it escape earlier in the week

Mexico’s navy has located two sailboats that went missing while carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba

An argument spilled into a wider attack.

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in the cosmopolitan Mediterranean principality of Monaco to encourage its people to use their Catholic faith and wealth for good

A Moroccan court has sentenced a rapper known for his criticism of the country’s ties with Israel and government corruption to eight months in prison

Africa is hurting again from a global crisis it had no part in starting

Police in Nepal arrested former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli over the deaths of dozens of people during violent protests in September that toppled the government and resulted in new elections

Indonesia has begun implementing a new government regulation approved earlier this month that bans children younger than 16 from access to digital platforms that could expose them to pornography, cyberbullying, online scams and addiction

Police say a stabbing attack at a school in northern Chile left a member of staff dead and four other people injured

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been discharged from a hospital in the capital and will continue serving a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt at his residence in an upscale gated community

Costa Rica said that it would accept 25 “third party” migrants deported from the United States per week

Stormy winds, rain and snow have closed schools and left thousands of people without electricity in some Balkan countries while snarling traffic throughout the region and pulling out trees and ripping off rooftops

Heavy rains and strong winds have triggered deadly landslides and floods across East Africa, with southern Tanzania reporting at least 20 deaths

Pakistan has emerged as an unexpected mediator, offering to help bring Washington and Tehran to the negotiating table as fears of a wider regional conflict escalate following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran that began in late February

Slovenia’s government says its intelligence service has confirmed foreign influence around the country’s parliamentary election

Nepal’s youngest prime minister will take the oath of office in a ceremony shaped as much by astrology as politics

A young Spanish woman died in Barcelona after winning a long court fight for her euthanasia right

A knife attack at a Pokémon store in downtown Tokyo has left a woman and the attacker dead, police say

Italian police say they have seized about 20 million euros in property and assets linked to money stolen from Swiss actress and original Bond girl Ursula Andress

Nepal’s newly elected members of parliament have been sworn in, with nearly two-thirds of them from a political party that is less than four years old

British police say two men arrested in connection with an arson attack that destroyed four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity have been released on bail as authorities continue to investigate the suspected antisemitic hate crime