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Seoul has called for an official apology from Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed what it says was supposed to be a secret transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea.

Rescue teams on Monday searched for a dozen people swept away by an avalanche that killed at least four on a Nepalese mountain during severe weather.

Politicians and judges are increasingly attempting to shut down press freedoms in Mexico, raising concerns among journalism watchdog groups.

Three Australian appellate judges on Monday rejected an activist's landmark bid to prosecute Britain's King Charles III over the alleged genocide of Indigenous people.

Pope Leo XIV urged religious leaders on Monday to preach messages of peace and unity as he wrapped up a visit to France by recalling the forces of dialogue that contributed to Europe's post-World War II integration.

Hungary's Parliament voted on Monday to lift the parliamentary immunity of three lawmakers, including the country's prime minister, Peter Magyar, as prosecutors proceed with ongoing criminal investigations.

South African authorities on Monday raised the combined death toll from two mass shootings over the weekend to 28, after another victim from one of the attacks died in hospital.

Five years after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, dozens of people arrested in connection with the killing in the troubled Caribbean nation are still awaiting trial in Miami.

Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic resigned on Sunday to pursue a bid to become the prime minister in an upcoming early parliamentary election that will test his firm rule in the Balkan country after nearly two years of protests.

Iran will soon run out of oil to sell to China and will have nothing left to trade, "probably in the next two weeks," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.