Peru’s Congress late Wednesday elected legislator José María Balcázar as the country's eighth president in a decade, replacing another interim leader who was ousted the previous day over corruption allegations just four months into his term.

"We can state that Russia is trying to drag out negotiations that could already have reached the final stage."

Amid criticism over the board’s structure and broad mandate, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. defended the board, saying “a new way” was needed to address the situation in Gaza.

U.N.-backed investigators say Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces have carried out a campaign in el-Fasher that shows hallmarks of genocide against non-Arab communities. The fact-finding mission says

Another opposition Conservative lawmaker in Canada has defected to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s governing Liberals

Kim attended a ceremony Wednesday to mark the presenting of 600mm-caliber multiple rocket launchers to the Ninth Congress of the ruling Workers’ Party.

Pope Leo XIV opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday and lamenting the “ashes of international law and justice” that have been left by today’s wars and conflicts.

Eleven people have been arrested for a deadly attack on a far-right student activist at a protest last week in Lyon, France.