A gunman killed ​one person and wounded four others in a busy Washington, DC, neighborhood on ‌Thursday morning before barricading himself in his apartment and eventually taking his own life following a standoff, according to city officials and a law enforcement official.

Taiwan is participating in this year’s APEC leaders’ summit in China on the ‌principle of interaction on an “equal basis”, President Lai Ching-te said on Thursday, after his government called for a written guarantee from Beijing for that to happen.

A general strike by 4 million Spanish workers — around one-fifth of the total workforce — against the ​country’s housing crisis was mostly peaceful on Wednesday, unions said, though by the evening clashes erupted in some areas of Barcelona and Madrid.

South Korea’s presidential ​office said on Thursday it saw little prospect of US-North Korea contact around the ‌upcoming APEC summit in China or of Pyongyang’s participation in APEC-related events.

Pope Leo was greeted by the largest crowd of his papacy in an emotional return to Peru on Wednesday, declaring the South American country where ​he served as a missionary for two decades his homeland.

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators agreed to a major prisoner exchange at two days of peace talks ​in Abu Dhabi that ended on Wednesday, but US mediators said differences remained on major issues, including territory.

Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Alexander Darchiev, ​has died ​aged 66, the Russian Foreign ⁠Ministry said on ​Wednesday.

Schools across Italy were evacuated on ‌Wednesday after around 6,300 of them received bomb warnings, the latest in a series of threats and cyberattacks around Europe against supermarkets, blood banks, air traffic and broadcasters.

In the Strait of Hormuz, tankers are still ablaze, oil spills are washing ashore and drones and missiles strike infrastructure across the region, despite ​expectations of a de-escalation reflected in falling oil prices.

A Chinese university with ​deep ties to the People’s Liberation Army bought Nvidia’s powerful H200 AI chips last month despite being on a US export blacklist, procurement records show, highlighting gaps in Washington’s efforts to curb China’s access to advanced ‌technology.

Russian and Ukrainian officials met in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday for ​their first peace talks since February as US President Donald Trump’s envoys launched a new push to end the war in Ukraine.

Israel’s parliament was sworn in on Tuesday without a new ​government, after a deadlocked general election stripped Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his parliamentary majority but left his main rivals with no clear path ‌to power.