Four potential contenders in the 2028 race for the White House have caught American voters’ attention with their early jockeying: Republicans JD Vance and Marco Rubio and Democrats Jon Ossoff and Pete ​Buttigieg, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll.

The leader of Tibet’s government-in-exile expressed disappointment that human rights appeared absent from US President Donald ​Trump’s dealings with China, telling Reuters that a focus solely on trade and business risked emboldening ‌Beijing.

Rescue teams worked through torrential rain on Thursday and ​found no more victims in the rubble of a New York City apartment building collapse that killed ‌at least eight people and prompted Mayor Zohran Mamdani to order an investigation into dozens of linked construction sites.

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.