Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the presidential office in Manila, signaling that he seeks to draw closer to countries that are pushing back against threats from China.

“It is a great pleasure to meet with you to discuss some of the issues that are common to our two countries and ...Read more

Mexicans trying to vote from abroad in Sunday’s historic election reported long delays — and in some cases were turned away before being able to cast ballots.

News reports and social media posts depicted long lines of hundreds of voters queued up from Madrid to New York to San Francisco. The Dallas Morning News reported that some voters ...Read more

Way before 5 a.m. people eager to cast a vote for the Mexican presidential election began to form a line outside the Mexican Consulate in Chicago. By noon, thousands of people took over South Ashland Avenue, forcing police to close off streets and set up barricades to control the lines.

For the first time, Mexican nationals could cast a vote in...Read more

Despite a wet winter and heavy snowpack, California’s 2024 wildfire season kicked off over the weekend with the state’s largest blaze of the year, the Corral Fire south of Tracy and east of Livermore.

The blaze ignited Saturday afternoon and burned out of control through Sunday, injuring two firefighters, forcing evacuations, destroying one...Read more

Australians are more distrustful of the U.S. than at any time in Joe Biden’s administration, a Lowy Institute poll found, while support for his presidential predecessor Donald Trump climbed further.

Confidence in Biden as a world leader tumbled 13 percentage points to 46% in the latest survey of Australians’ foreign policy attitudes by the ...Read more

Global defense leaders descending on Singapore this weekend confronted conflicting visions of the region: the U.S. touted expanding military exercises and partnerships across the Indo-Pacific, while China criticized “outside forces” for interfering with peace and stability.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin addressed the Shangri-La ...Read more

Americans are divided on whether former President Donald Trump was treated fairly by a New York jury that declared him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt on dozens felony charges or if he should see the inside of a jail cell as a consequence, new polling shows.

According to a Morning Consult survey taken the day after the 45th President heard the...Read more

Robert Watkins waded into the middle of West Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta Sunday, using a bucket to scoop water gushing from a broken pipe near 11th Street.

Appearing tired but determined, he headed down the normally busy street nearby to Soak & Polish Nail Bar, where he said his bucket, filled to the brim, could come in handy.

“So we...Read more

Hundreds of eager voters lined up to cast their ballots outside the Mexican consulate in San Diego Sunday — the first time for Mexican nationals living abroad in what is considered the largest election in the nation's history.

By 7 a.m., the line in Little Italy had wrapped around the block. As the minutes ticked by, it became harder to find ...Read more

Eight people were shot, two fatally, in three incidents of gun violence over less than two hours Saturday night in Philadelphia, police said.

Police provided the following accounts Sunday:

At 9:40 p.m., 25th District officers found a 28-year-old man with two gunshot wounds to the left side of his stomach on the highway at West Hunting Park ...Read more

The Republican leader of the Will County Board, who also serves as Homer Township supervisor, is defending himself after ordering the U.S. flag outside the township offices to be flown upside down Friday as a symbol of national “distress” following former President Donald Trump’s conviction last week on 34 felony counts.

Steve Balich, ...Read more

South Africa’s African National Congress has begun talks with rivals to form a government following its worst performance since Nelson Mandela led it to power at the end of apartheid in 1994.

The ANC obtained 159 of the 400 seats in the National Assembly in the May 29 elections, the electoral commission announced on Sunday, a precipitous ...Read more

Kelly Thompson lives in a sun-faded camper at an encampment in an industrial corner of West Oakland. At 76, being homeless is getting harder. Thompson is feeling it in his bones.

“My knees are hurting. My hips are hurting. My feet hurt. It hurts all over,” he said.

According to a new UC San Francisco study, nearly half of California’s ...Read more

Atlanta’s water crisis threatened to expand Sunday, when authorities announced they were investigating two new potential main breaks at Euclid and North avenues and at 1190 Atlantic Drive NW.

Residents and businesses in those areas, according to city officials, might experience the kinds of disruptions that have plagued Atlanta since the ...Read more

Two days after U.S. President Joe Biden laid out what he called an Israeli proposal to end its war on Hamas, it’s clear that key aspects of the deal have not, in fact, been embraced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

As the war in Gaza approaches its eighth month, the impasse between Israel and Hamas over exchanging hostages for prisoners ...Read more

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for high school seniors, who have already declared which colleges they’ll be attending in the fall. As graduation approaches, Bay Area students can be spotted in sparkly prom dresses, soaking up the last few weeks of their senior year and maybe even skipping a class or two.

For a high schooler ...Read more

One person was killed and 24 others wounded in a shooting at an outdoor birthday party in Akron, Ohio, early Sunday morning.

The deceased victim was identified only as a 27-year-old man. At least two of the other victims were in critical condition, the Akron Beacon Journal reported. The other victims suffered non-life-threatening wounds.

“...Read more

Jacob Zuma, who led South Africa for almost nine scandal-tainted years before being ousted by the governing African National Congress, may now play a major role in the country’s political future.

Six years after being pushed from office, Zuma successfully upstaged his successor Cyril Ramaphosa in national elections this week, eating into the...Read more

CHICAGO — For nearly two decades, Mark Weitekamper has lived in Chicago’s West Ridge neighborhood. For years, Weitekamper said, he’s been able to enjoy wildlife in the heart of the city.

“You can spot turtles, you can spot herons, you can sometimes get lucky and there’s mink, and river otter,” Weitekamper said. “We can, of course,...Read more