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Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has ordered the closure of his country’s embassy and consulates in Ecuador in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito

Venezuela says it will close its embassy in Ecuador to protest that country's raid on Mexico's embassy

A portrait of Winston Churchill by an artist whose work the British leader loathed is going up for auction

State media in Mozambique say at least eight people from one family have died after their homemade boat sank in a central province

Authorities in Spain’s drought-stricken Catalonia are considering imposing water restrictions on tourists in the driest parts of the northeastern region if domestic consumption isn't curtailed

Belgian police have shut down a gathering of far-right politicians and supporters, citing concerns about public order

Minister for Culture Jakob Engel-Schmidt said "400 years of Danish cultural heritage" had gone up in flames.

The Israeli war cabinet meets Tuesday for the third day in a row to consider what Israel’s response will be to Iran’s attack.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a controversial law, days after it was passed by parliament, potentially helping Kyiv to boost conscription to replenish depleted forces to fend off Russia’s continued aggression

Liz Truss sparked mayhem on the financial markets and turmoil within her Conservative Party during her 49 days as Britain’s shortest-serving prime minister

The southern German state of Bavaria says it will ban the smoking of cannabis at public festivals, inside beer gardens and even at the world’s most popular beer festival, the Oktoberfest

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.

The U.S. ambassador to Japan has urged Tokyo to take a greater role in developing, producing and supplying weapons “to enhance our collective security” amid conflict in Ukraine, Gaza and elsewhere

Greece’s governing conservative party has added a convicted politician from Albania’s ethnic Greek minority to its list of candidates for the upcoming European Parliament election, adding to the already existing tension between the two countries

A Muslim student who wanted to pray during lunchtime has lost a court fight against a strict London school that had banned prayer on campus

A report from the website 38 North says that North Korea is putting surveillance cameras in schools and workplaces in a technology-driven push to monitor its population even more closely

Australia’s prime minister says a French construction worker who confronted a man who stabbed six people to death in a Sydney shopping mall is welcome to stay in the country as long as he likes

An Algerian journalist is decrying his expulsion from the country after flying in from France and not being allowed to leave the airport last weekend

A plan by Britain’s government to introduce a landmark smoking ban that aims to stop young people from ever smoking is set to clear its first hurdle on Tuesday, despite vocal opposition from within Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party

Apple CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday that he wants to further increase investment in Vietnam a day after the company announced it would spending on suppliers in the Southeast Asian manufacturing hub

Argentina’s defense minister has signed a deal worth about 2.1 billion kroner ($300 million) to buy 24 of Denmark’s aging F-16 fighter jets

Armenia has insisted that the top United Nations court has jurisdiction to hear its case accusing Azerbaijan of breaching an international convention that aims to stamp out racial discrimination

The U.N. human rights office says Israeli security forces must immediately put an end to attacks by Jewish settlers on Palestinians

Singapore’s incoming leader says Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will stay on as senior minister in the government after he steps down next month

Local authorities say nearly 14,500 homes have been flooded in a Russian region bordering Kazakhstan after water levels spiked in a local river

Greece aims to create two large marine parks as part of an $830 million program to protect biodiversity and marine ecosystems

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have called for an immediate cease-fire and uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza

The artist and curators representing Israel at this year’s Venice Biennale have announced they won’t open the Israeli exhibition until there's a cease-fire in Gaza and an agreement to release hostages

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping to pressure Russia to end its “insane campaign” in Ukraine, the latest in a parade of European leaders and senior officials to make such an appeal

"400 years of Danish cultural heritage" has gone up in flames: Official

Brazilian police investigating the discovery of a boat full of corpses say the dead were likely African migrants from Mali and Mauritania

Heavy rains have lashed the United Arab Emirates, flooding out portions of major highways and leaving vehicles abandoned on roadways across Dubai

A fire has swept through one of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings, causing the collapse of the iconic spire from the 17th-century Old Stock Exchange

Nissan says it expects to mass produce electric vehicles powered by advanced next-generation batteries by early 2029

A 16-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene, police said.

A teenager has been accused of wounding a Christian bishop and priest during a church service in a second high-profile knife attack to rock Sydney in recent days, leaving communities on edge, leaders calling for calm and a besieged church urging agains...

Six people are dead after a boat carrying a group of people capsized in a river in Indian-controlled Kashmir

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says police have seized the largest haul of methamphetamine in the country in years without anybody being killed, in a subtle criticism of his predecessor’s notoriously deadly crackdown on illegal drugs

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of a 3-year-old girl and her mother who were the last victims still missing after landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island that killed 20 people

Raj Sud, 94, has voted in almost every election held in independent India, bearing witness to the eventful journey of a diverse, and now the world’s most populous, democracy over the last 76 years. Nearly 970 million people are eligible to vote in India’s 6-week national election starting Friday, and the elderly homemaker has a clear favorite in the race. Most polls have predicted a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party for a third straight five-year term. “I like Modi very much. Modi is working honestly. And he is doing very good work and wants to make the whole country absolutely beautiful,” said Sud. Modi is considered a champion of the country’s Hindu majority and has overseen rapid economic growth during his last two terms. But critics say he's also undermined India’s democracy and its status as a secular nation with attacks by Hindu nationalists against the country’s minorities and a shrinking space for dissent and free...

China’s economy grew faster than expected in the first quarter of the year with help from policies and stronger demand, though signs of weakness persisted

China's economy grew at 5.3% in the first quarter, beating estimates with help from policies and better demand

ABC News' Marcus Moore reports on the year-long war in Sudan that's forcing millions to flee and inflaming the humanitarian situation in the region.

Australian police say a knife attack in Sydney against 2 clergymen is being treated as terrorism

Iran launched an unprecedented strike against Israel coming almost a month after Israel’s deadly attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria.

Mass coral reef bleaching can subject coral to mortality without intervention.

The mayor of Colombia’s capital has announced new measures to reduce water consumption in the city of eight million people, where a drought associated with the El Niño weather pattern has already prompted officials to ration water in most neighborhoods...

Chris Costa, former National Security Council senior director for counterterrorism, shares his analysis of what this means for both countries going forward.

Lawmakers in Georgia’s legislature have scuffled as the parliament started debating a divisive new law dubbed the foreign agent bill

Israel is still weighing its response to Iran's attack with a second day of war cabinet meetings. Israel's military chief says, "Israel will indeed respond."