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The far-right Alternative for Germany party surged to a resounding victory in a regional election Sunday, but fell a little short of winning a majority in its quest to form the country's first far-right state government since World War II.

U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine and a slew of officials in Kyiv on Sunday as the diplomats worked to restart stalled peace talks with Russia.

Anak Krakatau volcano erupted in Indonesia early Sunday, prompting the cancellation of all flights at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and disrupting other domestic airports as volcanic ash drifted across parts of western Indonesia.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent estimated Sunday that Iran has only a smattering of crude oil left to sell to China.

A building collapsed in New Delhi on Sunday, killing at least one person and trapping dozens of others, officials said.

A television game show in Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a U.S.-born millennial in the audience and a student of her parents' mother tongue, the high-stakes setting is a perfect classroom.

The United States ambassador to Israel condemned Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank again on Saturday, calling the behavior an "act of terror" as he visited with Palestinian American residents shaken by months of attacks.

The leaders of Russia and Ukraine on Saturday agreed to pause strikes on each other's capitals while U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner hold talks to try to revive a stalled push to end Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Australian officials, citing "psychosocial risks," said they will evacuate the Macquarie Island research station this fall so people there don't witness bird flu ravaging the elephant seal population come springtime.

Rescuers in Nepal pulled out a Chinese man and a woman in separate operations Saturday, 10 days after devastating floods hit the country, as teams continued searching for thousands of missing people.