At least 22 people have died in connection with widespread forest fires in south-central Chile, according to government officials.

Pope Francis called for peace on Saturday as he met a group of several hundred South Sudanese people internally displaced by war at an event in the country’s capital Juba.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has also called for Ukraine’s rapid accession to the EU.

The arrest of a 24-year-old man accused of taking two monkeys from the Dallas Zoo has shed some light on a mysterious string of events there as police said Friday that they’ve also linked him to the escape of a small leopard and a gash in the fence of another monkey habitat.

Tesla founder Elon Musk has been cleared of wrongdoing for a tweet in which he said he had “funding secured” to take the electric carmaker private.

The Chinese balloon drifting high above the U.S. and first revealed over Montana has created a buzz down below among residents who initially wondered what it was — and now wonder what its arrival means amid a chorus of alarm raised by the region’s elected officials.

Italian anti-Mafia police have arrested another mobster on the run, just two weeks after the sensational arrest on January 16 of Sicilian Cosa Nostra super boss Matteo Messina Denaro at a health clinic in Palermo, Sicily.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed his trip to China after a Chinese spy balloon flew across the US.

Turkey summoned ambassadors of nine Western countries including the United States and Sweden on Thursday to criticise their decisions to temporarily shut diplomatic missions and issue security alerts following Koran-burning incidents in Europe.

European Union leaders have arrived in Kyiv for talks with Ukraine’s government, bringing the promise of new sanctions against Russia but disappointing Ukraine’s hopes for swift membership to the EU.

The US has been monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted in the skies over the northern US this week.

Israel and Sudan will sign a “historic peace agreement” in Washington in a few months’ time, Israel’s foreign minister announced following talks in Khartoum.