More than 3,700 Italian schools received hoax ​bomb warnings on Thursday but the vast majority of them opted to remain open, following new advice from the government for handling such security threats.

Pope Leo met with six victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy on Thursday in Lima in his second meeting with survivors during a ​12-day trip to South America and discussed how the Church can better listen ‌to abuse victims, the Vatican said.

National agencies around the world have not published enough air accident reports to generate recommendations that ‌could improve safety for the flying public, advocates said on the sidelines of an industry conference on Thursday.

NATO will not hold a summit in Albania next year despite previous plans to do so, Albanian Prime ​Minister Edi Rama said on Thursday.

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.