Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry says Islamabad does not seek further escalation of hostilities with Afghanistan but expects the country’s Taliban rulers to address its security concerns by taking action against militants operating from Afghan soil.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia has deployed about 170,000 troops in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, aiming to capture the city of Pokrovsk.

France's culture minister says that the Louvre will install streetside anti-ramming and anti-intrusion devices in the next two months.

A new inquest into the 1967 death of South African Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-apartheid leader Albert Luthuli has found that he was beaten to death.

A Turkish court has sentenced the owner of a ski resort hotel and 10 others to life in prison for severe negligence in a deadly fire.

Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen has said that his refusal to sign a $35 billion gas agreement with Egypt has prompted his U.S. counterpart Chris Wright to cancel a planned trip to Israel.

The Red Cross says it has transferred the unidentified remains of three people to Israel but an Israeli military official says they were still being examined and may not be those of missing hostages.

King Charles III has stripped his brother Andrew of his princely title and home amid mounting pressure to address his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán plans to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to exempt Hungary from new U.S. sanctions on Russian oil when he visits Washington next week.

In rural Ukraine, attack drones are assembled in secret to strike deep into Russia.

Protests in Tanzania have entered their third day as the electoral body continues to announce the results of an election that sparked deadly demonstrations, leading to the government’s shutdown of the internet and the deployment of the military.

Many museums began reassessing security after the jewelry heist at the Louvre in Paris.

Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica has become the world’s tallest church.

Two prominent Republicans are urging the Supreme Court to allow a lawsuit against Cisco.

Guy Kopelowicz, a renowned photo editor with The Associated Press, has died at 85.

The death toll in a major police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro has risen to at least 121 people dead.

An official says a Greek airline will start running direct flights from the European Union country to Baghdad before the end of the year.

The International Space Station is marking 25 years of nonstop human presence in orbit.

Communities across the northern Caribbean are dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military has killed four people in a strike against a boat that was allegedly carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

The United States will share closely held technology to allow South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine.

The Senate is passing legislation that would nullify U.S. tariffs on Canada.

President Donald Trump says he has decided to lower his combined tariff rates on imports of Chinese goods to 47% after talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on curbing fentanyl trafficking.

Israel’s intense bombardment of the Gaza Strip this week marked the most serious challenge yet for a fragile, U.S.-brokered ceasefire.