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Guatemala was heading to a second round of voting for a new president and vice president as none of the candidates polled near the required 50 percent threshold for winning outright.

Official results show voters gave Greece’s reformist Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis another four-year term in Sunday’s elections. He was credited with bringing the Greek economy to stability and growth after a severe debt crisis and three international bailouts, but he acknowledged that formidable challenges remain.

A top court in Germany has ruled that total bans on peaceful prayer vigils outside abortion clinics are a violation of the constitutional right of freedom of assembly, the Christian Post (CP) reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned an armed rebellion in his country as “betrayal” and “treason.” He spoke as nuclear-armed Russia edged closer to a coup and civil war Saturday, with the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group being investigated by Russian security services for “inciting mutiny” as Wagner entered a critical Russian city.

Nuclear-armed Russia edged closer to a coup and civil war Saturday with the head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group being investigated by Russian security services for “inciting mutiny.”

The secretary-general of the United Nations accused Russia on Thursday of killing 136 children in Ukraine in 2022 and using 91 minors as human shields, while Russian authorities blamed Kyiv for a missile strike.

Some 40 leaders, including a dozen from Africa as well as China and Brazil’s president, are gathering in Paris to work out a United Nations-backed new global financing pact. The gathering in the French capital includes a proposed pause in debt repayments for nations facing poverty and disasters.

The U.S. Coast Guard says all five people aboard a submersible that tried to reach the Titanic shipwreck have died in a “catastrophic implosion.”

A New Zealand Disciplinary Tribunal has revoked the teaching certificate of a Christian man who refused to use the preferred name of a transgender student, the New Zealand Herald (NZH) reports.

Friends and family members hope for miracles as “noises” were heard in the search for a missing submersible carrying five people who tried to reach the Titanic shipwreck.

Parts of central Paris seemed a warzone late Wednesday after a natural gas explosion sparked a blaze in buildings injuring scores of people.

A Chinese aircraft carrier group led by the vessel Shandong sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, Taiwan’s defense ministry said, amid heightened military tension over the island Beijing claims as its own territory.

The United Nations secretary general wants to introduce a worldwide digital identity document (ID) system linked to individuals’ bank accounts.

The arrival of 11 Ukrainian prisoners of war in Hungary freed by Russia in a church-mediated deal without Ukraine’s knowledge has led to tensions between Kyiv and Budapest.

A submersible used to take tourists to view the wreck of the doomed Titanic ship has gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean, sparking a search and rescue mission, officials say.

Austria was investigating three suspected Islamists Monday who were detained over allegedly planning to attack the annual LGBTQ+ Pride parade.