Pope Leo met with five victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy on Monday in Buenos Aires, the ​Vatican said, in the first of several expected meetings with survivors during ‌the pontiff’s 12-day trip to South America.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday that Germany faced a test of its commitment to protecting its Jewish community as he decried the “horrifying sight” of ​kindergartens and synagogues protected by bulletproof glass and armed police.

The US Supreme Court gave President Donald Trump’s administration the green light on Monday to proceed with the construction of barriers along the US-Mexico border in a remote region in ​West Texas that includes Big Bend National Park, fast-tracking one of his longstanding priorities.

Germany looks set to get its first female head of state next year after Chancellor Friedrich Merz nominated Ilse Aigner on Monday as his conservatives’ candidate to replace President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in ​the largely ceremonial role.

Google has acquired Crusoe’s data center site in southeast Wyoming, the AI ​infrastructure developer said on Friday, a ‌day after the Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab unit announced a $17-billion investment in the project.

Heavy rains have flooded tens of thousands of tents housing displaced Palestinians crammed ​into encampments across the Gaza Strip, washing away shelters and soaking blankets and mattresses, local authorities said on Saturday.

A Polish gunman likely influenced by far-right ideology killed six people in the main square of the southern city of Krakow before police shot ​and arrested him, officials said on Saturday, adding that three more bodies were found in his home.

In the countryside west of Istanbul, trucks line up to empty mixed household waste from the city of 16 million people onto a vast landscape of decomposing rubbish, where landfill gas is captured to ​generate electricity at a nearby plant.

At least 27 people were killed and 36 wounded in what the Houthi-run Saba news agency said were Saudi airstrikes on a ​village near Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Saturday, in one of ‌the deadliest reported attacks since fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-aligned group resumed in July.

Haiti authorities on Friday confirmed gang leader Mathias Saintil was ​dead, after Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime ‌said on X there was “one less gang leader.”

Pope Leo urged South American countries on Friday to tackle regional issues together as ​he began a three-country, 12-day trip expected to draw millions across a Catholic stronghold facing sharp political divisions.

Russian ​forces launched a missile attack on ‌the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early, with debris damaging a residential building, Mayor Vitali Klitschko ​said.