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Prosecutor appealed for further testimony in a mass abuse and murder case across nine countries, after charging a 79-year-old former teacher.

Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council (TPC, or CPT using its French acronym) ended its tumultuous and unhappy two-year run on Saturday, stepping down with the country still in chaos and its final major effort — to unseat U.S.-backed Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime — completely ignored.

The Venezuelan terrorist organization Tren De Aragua (TdA) is expanding dramatically in Mexico City and has become one of the leading criminal organizations in the Mexican capital city. TDA is one of several criminal organizations designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations by the U.S. government. The expansion in Mexico appears to be closely tied to the push by the U.S. government to track down its members and remove them from U.S. soil.

Around two-thirds of Germans think their levels of welfare spending, one of the most generous systems in the world, is unsustainable.

MADISON, Wis. — Federal judges have dismissed three lawsuits accusing bestselling British fantasy author Neil Gaiman of sexually assaulting his children’s nanny in New Zealand four years ago.

The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced Monday a lethal kinetic strike on a drug -trafficking vessel as part of Operation Southern Spear left two dead and one survivor.

Italian law enforcement officials in Lecce arrested two individuals suspected of participating in Monday’s failed, movie-like armed highway heist against a cash van in the country’s south.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage announced on Monday that he will start making preparations for his Reform UK party to challenge in a general election as the collapse of the Starmer government appears to be imminent.

Several call centers in India were raided after an investigation found that hundreds of Maryland residents were scammed out of more than $48 million.

Eileen Gu, the California-born Olympian who has chosen to compete for Communist China instead of the United States, has taken strong exception to President Trump’s criticism of American skier Hunter Hess.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday that he viewed recent talks with the United States as “a step forward,” but his foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, insisted on the same day that Iran will never give up its uranium enrichment program.

A senior Hamas leader declared that surrendering weapons would “criminalize the resistance,” openly defying President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace framework.

Chinese state media agencies confirmed a massive explosion taking place at a facility owned by a biotechnology company killed at least eight people in Shanxi, northern China this weekend.

China’s Global Times state propaganda newspaper proclaimed that America was besieged by “deep divisions” in an article on the Winter Olympics.

Xi Jinping is betting that China can build domestic alternatives to American semiconductors and reduce its dollar exposure before either becomes a crisis.

Iran added 7.5 years to the prison sentence of activist Narges Momhammad as part of its crackdown against dissidents.

President Donald Trump was no fan of Bad Bunny’s halftime show at Super Bowl LX, calling it an “affront to the greatness of America.”

Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Pablo Guanipa was rearrested 12 hours after being released from prison.

Sandro Castro, grandson of late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, published a bizarre video on Sunday claiming that he would like to drink a “Cuba libre” instead of a beer from a brand seized by his family’s communist regime.

The Communist Party of Cuba warned airlines operating in the country that it would soon run out of jet fuel, reports revealed on Monday, potentially lasting through the middle of March.

Members of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s cabinet have circled the wagons around their embattled boss, as he faces calls to resign.

Pro-democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong on Monday, effectively a life sentence given his age and reportedly poor health in detention.

Chinese regulators have advised the country’s biggest banks to rein in their exposure to U.S. Treasuries, citing concentration risk and market volatility, Bloomberg News reported Monday.

British police said they were examining claims that the former Prince Andrew sent confidential trade reports to Jeffrey Epstein, as Prince William’s office said he was “deeply concerned” about the revelations coming out of the U.S. investigation into the late sex offender.

A Norwegian ambassador has resigned amid reports Epstein left her children and husband millions in a will before his 2019 death.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s recently appointed communications director resigned on Monday, just hours after the departure of his chief of staff, as the government struggles to survive the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Portuguese socialist politician António José Seguro became president-elect of Portugal after defeating right-wing populist André Ventura in Sunday’s runoff.

Japan’s conservative LDP party, led by Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae, obtained a historic landslide electoral victory on Sunday, securing a two-thirds supermajority in the lower house of the Parliament.

Multiple Members of Parliament from the governing left-wing Labour Party have called on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to step down in the wake of the resignation of his chief of staff over the appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson as U.S. Ambassador despite having knowledge of his ties to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

Russian authorities said Sunday that the man suspected of shooting a deputy chief of Russia’s military intelligence agency in Moscow was detained in Dubai and handed over to Russia, and they alleged he was working on behalf of Ukraine.

Americans “will die” before Iran is humiliated, warned Ali Ahmad Khomeini, the grandson of the Islamic Republic’s founder, who also insisted Israel would be “erased” if Muslim nations ever acquire the military capability to do so.

British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s most senior aide, Morgan McSweeney, has announced his resignation as chief of staff over the appointment of Jeffrey Epstein-linked Lord Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States.

U.S. ski star Lindsey Vonn’s hopes of an Olympic comeback ended in brutal fashion Sunday when she crashed out of the women’s downhill event after seeking to compete in Italy with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.

The first-ever Israeli Olympic bobsled team had equipment, passports, and thousands of dollars of items stolen after the apartment where they were staying while training was robbed, the team revealed Saturday.

A Russian airstrike on a residential area in eastern Ukraine killed one person and wounded two, officials said Sunday, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the U.S. has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach a peace deal.