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Mexican Finance Secretary Rogelio Ramírez de la O, a holdover from the previous administration, has resigned for personal reasons and will be replaced by his deputy.
At Paris Fashion Week, Kenzo’s latest evolution trades its signature jungle prints for something sharper: punk-infused tailoring, underground energy, and a touch of British irreverence.
Religious leaders, scholars and diplomats have gathered at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana for a conference on Ukraine studies with a theme of hope.
Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries features from both humans and Neanderthals.
There’s going to be more “With Love, Meghan,” the Duchess of Sussex’s Netflix lifestyles series.
President Donald Trump says he is “strongly considering” levying new sanctions and tariffs on Russia for its war against Ukraine.
Romanian far-right populist Calin Georgescu has filed his candidacy in a rerun of last year's presidential election that was annulled by a top court after his surprise first-round win.
Research by the charity English Heritage suggests it may have found a portrait of England's shortest-reigning queen Lady Jane Grey.
Friday marks three weeks since Pope Francis was hospitalized for bronchitis, which then led to double pneumonia.
Picture this: A sliding athlete wins an Olympic medal in Lake Placid next winter, then is chauffeured down to New York for an award ceremony at Rockefeller Center a few days later with thousands of people there to cheer on both moments.
European Union leaders are trumpeting their endorsement of a plan to free up hundreds of billions of euros to inject into their defense budgets.
Some 90,000 Palestinians have prayed at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City under tight security by Israeli forces.
Panama’s Security Minister Frank Ábrego says Panama will begin the process of issuing humanitarian passes to 112 migrants deported from the United States who have been held in a remote camp in the Darien region since last month.
Nearly 100 people have died of cholera in two weeks since the waterborne disease outbreak began in Sudan’s White Nile State.
Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ambitions and Indigenous rights.
President Donald Trump says he sent a letter to Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a development that was not immediately confirmed by the supreme leader.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says his government is working on a plan to prepare large-scale military training for every adult male in response to the changing security situation in Europe.
Charitable organizations that relied on U.S. foreign assistance are looking to other private and public donors now that the Trump administration has suspended nearly all foreign aid contracts.
Once again, most Americans will set their clocks forward by one hour this weekend, losing perhaps a bit of sleep but gaining more glorious sunlight in the evenings as the days warm into summer.
Police used batons and tear gas to disperse thousands of members of a banned Islamist group as they marched through streets in Bangladesh's capital.
Iranian officials have flogged a popular singer who posted a song online urging women to remove their mandatory headscarves over a conviction for possessing and consuming alcohol.
The United Nations migration agency says four migrant boats have capsized in waters off Yemen and Djibouti, leaving two people dead and 186 missing.
A war monitor says two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad have left more than 200 people dead.
Ukrainian officials said Russia had targeted energy facilities with dozens of missiles and drones in a nighttime attack.
Along with fulminating against the United States, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi reasserted China’s South China Sea claims, blasted Japan for its past aggression and covered a wide range of other issues during his annual meeting with journalists.
South Korea's military says it has suspended the training flights of air force aircraft and all live-fire drills after two fighter jets accidentally bombed a civilian area.
A tropical cyclone has weakened to a tropical low weather system as it approaches the Australian east coast city of Brisbane.
The disposal of what Paris police called an “excessively dangerous” unexploded World War II bomb caused hours of transportation chaos on rail and road networks in the French capital.
The State Department says the United States and other countries made repeated offers to Thailand to resettle more than three dozen Uyghur men before they were deported back to China, where rights groups fear they may face torture and other abuse.
Officials from USAID say the the Trump administration’s cuts to the U.S. humanitarian agency have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to aid groups.
From its 18th century roots, Vienna’s celebrated ball season has evolved and now involves teenagers learning to waltz by watching YouTube videos and ladies shedding their elbow-length gloves to better swipe on smartphones.
A South Korean court has ordered impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol to be released from jail.
American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week to appeal to the Trump administration to lift sanctions on the country.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says China will continue to retaliate for the United States’ “arbitrary tariffs” and accused Washington of “meeting good with evil” in a press conference Friday on the sidelines of the annual parliamentary session.
Police say a 17-year-old boy with a loaded shotgun boarded a plane in Australia before being restrained by a pilot and two passengers.
President Donald Trump is expressing uncertainty that NATO would come to the United States' defense if the country were attacked.
A federal judge has given the Trump administration until Monday to speed up payment toward some of nearly $2 billion owed to partners of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department.
A judge has barred the Trump administration from immediately moving to shut down a small federal agency that supports investment in African countries.
President Donald Trump says he is suspending the security clearances of attorneys at a prominent law firm involved in launching since-discredited opposition research during the 2016 presidential campaign into any ties between the Republican candidate and Russia.
The number of monarch butterflies wintering in the mountains west of Mexico City, rebounded this year, doubling the area they covered in 2024 despite the stresses of climate change.
Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has promised to help Puerto Rico in her first visit to the U.S. territory as it struggles to rebuild from catastrophic hurricanes amid chronic power outages.
The U.S. decision to stop sharing military intelligence with Ukraine hobbles its ability to strike and defend against the Russian army.
Gunmen have ambushed a Syrian police patrol in a coastal town leaving at least 13 security members dead and many wounded, a war monitor said.
Ukraine was given “fair warning” by the White House before President Donald Trump this week ordered a pause on U.S. military assistance and intelligence sharing with Kyiv.
FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau will work to “zero out” the population of Americans detained or held hostage in foreign countries.
Siemens plans to invest $285 million in manufacturing in the United States, the tech company said Thursday, including two new facilities in California and Texas.
In a rare bipartisan move, two senators have introduced legislation in the latest attempt to fight the flow of fentanyl and its precursors into the U.S. from China, Mexico and through other borders.
Pregnant players on the women’s tennis tour now can receive 12 months of paid maternity leave, and those who become parents via partner pregnancy, surrogacy or adoption can get two months off with pay.
President Donald Trump has postponed 25% tariffs on many imports from Mexico and some imports from Canada for a month amid widespread fears of the economic fallout from a broader trade war.
Canadian government officials say Canada’s initial retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. will remain in place for now despite President Donald Trump postponing 25% tariffs on many imports from Canada for a month.
Tens of millions of Pakistanis tune into homegrown soap operas every night, but they are also a hit in India.
Poland and Baltic nations have welcomed a proposal by French President Emmanuel Macron to launch talks about using France’s nuclear deterrent to protect the continent from Russian threats.
The Albanian Cabinet has decided to shut down TikTok for 12 months, blaming the video-sharing platform for inciting violence and bullying, especially among children.
Being an organist might seem like a solitary job, but German maestro Leo Krämer never feels too far from his listeners.
The Glastonbury Festival in southwest England is clearly aiming to go out with a bang this summer before it takes a year off to allow the farmland to recover.
China's commerce minister says Beijing will not yield to bullying and its economy can weather tariffs and other challenges, though there are “no winners in a trade war."
Turkey’s central bank has lowered its key interest rate by a further 2.5 percentage points days after official figures indicated a slowdown in inflation that has eroded households’ purchasing power.
The European Central Bank is cutting interest rates by a quarter percentage point, lowering credit costs for consumers and businesses to support an economy that is struggling to show solid growth.
Romanian police say six people have been detained for allegedly organizing a criminal group that colluded with Russia to plot a coup against the government.
Hamas has brushed off President Donald Trump’s latest threat and reiterated that it will only free the remaining Israeli hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
French defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu says France will keep providing military intelligence to Ukraine after Washington announced it was freezing the sharing of information with Kyiv.
European Union leaders have committed to a massive step in defense cooperation following decades of hesitation.
A charity kitchen in the occupied West Bank has expanded its usual operations to help displaced Palestinians trying to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
European Union leaders committed to working together to bolster the continent’s defenses and to free up hundreds of billions of euros for security.
Pope Francis recorded a pained and labored audio message to thank people for their prayers for his recovery.
Wall Street’s sell-off kicked back into gear after tariff whiplash and falling AI stocks dragged the market lower.
Thirty years after world leaders adopted a historic blueprint to achieve gender equality, a new United Nations report says women’s and girls’ rights are under attack and gender discrimination is deeply embedded in economies and societies.
As Pope Francis remains hospitalized in Rome, thousands of faithful from around the world have been gathering by St. Peter’s and by the hospital to pray the rosary for him.
Schools are closed, public transport has stopped and desperate residents are getting around shortages of sandbags by buying sacks of potting mix as a region of eastern Australia is lashed by wind and rain from a rare approaching tropical cyclone.
Hong Kong’s top court has overturned the convictions of three former organizers of an annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown over their refusal to provide information to police, marking a rare victory for the city’s pro-democracy activists.
South Korean and U.S. troops will begin their large annual joint military drills next week to enhance their readiness against North Korean threats.
Takamatsu Gushiken hunts caves in Okinawa's jungles for the bones of those who died in the WWII Battle of Okinawa, one of the war's bloodiest.
Two major speeches were delivered by two of the world’s most powerful leaders this week, on opposite sides of the planet.
New Zealand’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom has lost his job over remarks he made about President Donald Trump at an event held by the Chatham House think tank in London this week.
The U.S. government’s decision to stop sharing air quality data from embassies and consulates worldwide is worrying some local scientists and experts who say the data was vital for people to be aware of air quality and monitor their government's progress in improving public health.
President Donald Trump has issued what he calls a “last warning” to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza.
China is denying the U.S. Justice Department’s accusations against 12 Chinese nationals charged in connection with global cybercrime campaigns targeting dissidents, news organizations, U.S. agencies and universities.
Protesters have launched gasoline bombs and fireworks in clashes with police outside Greece's parliament.
European Union leaders plan to hold emergency talks to agree ways to quickly increase their military budgets after the Trump administration signaled Europe must take care of its own security and also suspended assistance to Ukraine.
Julian Klausner has presented his first womenswear collection as creative director of Dries Van Noten at the Opéra Garnier in Paris, a setting that reflected the historical influences woven throughout his designs.
Panama President José Raúl Mulino has accused U.S. President Donald Trump of lying when Trump said in his address to Congress the night before that his administration was “reclaiming” the Panama Canal.
A sharply divided Supreme Court has rejected a Trump administration push to rebuke a federal judge who imposed a quick deadline to release billions of dollars in foreign aid.
When he was 17 years old, German artist Anselm Kiefer retraced the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh from the Netherlands through Belgium and into France.
Teaching machines in the way that animal trainers mold the behavior of dogs or horses has been an important method for developing artificial intelligence and one that was recognized Wednesday with the top computer science award.
Russia is asking how Ukraine could attend potential talks on ending their three-year war when a Ukrainian decree from 2022 rules out negotiations with President Vladimir Putin.
