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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson led a 46-person delegation to the Vatican on Wednesday for a private audience with Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-born pontiff who was meeting with his hometown's leader for the first time since his election to the papacy.

A Canadian man accused of selling lethal products across 40 countries to hundreds of people who bought them to end their own lives pleaded guilty Friday to 14 counts of counseling or aiding suicide.

American military power in South Korea represents "a dagger" pointed at China, according to the commander of U.S. Forces Korea.

Police in Kenya have arrested eight female students on suspicion of arson, authorities said Friday, after a fire destroyed a dormitory at a boarding school, killing 16 children and injuring dozens of others. The motive is still unknown.

Members of a Russia-led economic alliance on Friday warned member Armenia that it could face suspension over its aspirations to join the European Union as tensions continued to simmer between the Kremlin and the Armenian leadership.

Luis Raul Gonzalez-Pardo Rodriguez, a former Cuban military pilot who has been charged with complicity in the downing of two humanitarian mission planes, was sentenced to seven months in prison for immigration violations in the U.S.

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Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, one of the main negotiators for Iran during peace talks with the U.S., said Tehran doesn't expect to gain concessions from Washington through dialogue, "but with missiles."

A Russian attack drone hit the roof of an apartment building in southeastern Romania on Friday, according to Romanian authorities, sharply increasing tensions between the NATO member and Moscow.

The ability of adversaries to use commercial location data from smartphones to find and target U.S. troops in the Middle East is a "five-alarm fire" that demands immediate action, a group of bipartisan lawmakers said Thursday.