Widespread recent power outages in Mexico were caused by unseasonably hot weather, the country’s president said.

Russia marks the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two.

The Olympic flame landed on French soil amid tight security, firing the starting gun on a summer extravaganza of sport that President Emmanuel Macron hopes will showcase the splendours of France and burnish his legacy.

Dutch riot police clashed with protesters at the University of Amsterdam.

North Macedonia’s right-wing opposition won big in parliamentary and presidential elections, on a night that saw the Balkan country also elect its first female head of state.

Four current British newspaper editors and a string of other senior press figures have been named in a privacy lawsuit brought by Prince Harry and other public figures against the publisher of the Daily Mail and the Mail.

Hamas battled Israeli troops on the outskirts of the Gaza Strip’s crowded southern city of Rafah on Wednesday and Washington said it had held up a shipment of powerful bombs to Israel to prevent Palestinian civilian casualties.

North Macedonia will head to the polls in parliamentary and presidential elections.

Rescuers rushed to evacuate people stranded by devastating floods across the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.

The three men accused of murdering Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year in a killing that triggered a diplomatic crisis between Canada and India appeared briefly in a British Columbia courtroom.

The world just experienced its hottest April on record, extending an 11-month streak in which every month set a temperature record, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service said.

The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) says it has foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky and other high-ranking Ukrainian officials.