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After visiting Africa, Pope Leo’s four-day trip to France shows how he is seeking to appeal to Roman Catholicism’s original heartlands as well as to the church’s newest strongholds.

The professor had catalyzed debates over diversity efforts in higher education.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said the goal was to better integrate non-Italian speaking children, but critics accused her of trying to appease anti-immigrant sentiment.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also reserved some of his ire for the mayor of the city hosting him, Zohran Mamdani.

Under the offer, the Strait of Hormuz would reopen and nuclear talks would be revived.

Attacks on Saudi cities on the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen have added to pressure on global oil supplies.

The Haitian government hired Mr. Stone, a confidant of President Trump, weeks after hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost deportation protection. The contract is worth nearly $800,000, a document shows.

As he tries to break Canada’s dependence on the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he knows Canadians will feel pain from the trade war.

The police arrested a Ukrainian citizen on suspicion of carrying out the knife attack, which came as the two countries are trying to steady relations soured by old antagonisms.

The Iran-backed militia in Yemen fired six ballistic missiles at Saudi cities, a military spokesman said. It was a major cross-border attack.

Demonstrations broke out across the country over the woman’s eviction in Madrid, putting rising rents and affordability at the top of the political conversation.

Early results in legislative elections showed the lowest voter turnout in nearly two decades. Economic frustrations have grown as Morocco is set to co-host the 2030 soccer World Cup.

Neria Leiter, a reserve soldier, sustained life-threatening injuries after a Palestinian man drove into a military checkpoint in the West Bank, the Israeli military said.

Allegations embroiling the Brazilian judge who jailed former President Bolsonaro are reshaping an election that has consequences for Latin America and Washington.

Balendra Shah wore them as a rapper, as Kathmandu’s mayor and on his way to becoming prime minister. Now he has taken the look to the United Nations.

For months, millions of people have been living under a stifling blanket of toxic haze, fueled by a punishing drought brought on by the El Niño weather pattern.

A year ago, the United Nations appeared to be sidelined. But this week has reminded the world that it’s still useful.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel lashed out at a litany of enemies but took particular verbal aim at Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

The Israeli prime minister accused Mayor Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel, of antisemitism. The mayor has become a political foil for the prime minister.

At the Climate Forward live event, policymakers, executives and activists debated the boom in data centers, the growing backlash and its environmental effects.

President Trump has repeatedly cited the Great Hall of the People in Beijing as inspiration and competition with his own design.

Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said two pandas would arrive soon at Zoo Atlanta. Panda diplomacy has been a cornerstone of U.S.-China relations.

The Palestinian leader renewed his call for a two-state solution on Thursday, as he accused Israel of prosecuting “a genocidal war” against Palestinians.

The man, Daniel Thomas, was following migrants traveling to England when he filmed himself slashing an inflatable boat that had an emergency responder on board.

The British food writer — who brought the world the most creative possible pronunciation of “microwave” — has joined the show. By all accounts, she’s on fire. (In a good way.)

If President Vladimir V. Putin was hoping to get Europeans’ attention, he’s succeeded with a series of close-call incursions. The question now is what they will do about it.

Our Ukraine correspondent Siobhán O’Grady visits a school in Kyiv where air raid sirens interrupt classes all day and children must take shelter.

Our business data correspondent Aaron Krolik describes Russia’s vast effort to evade global sanctions and get drone parts for its war in Ukraine — and explains how we traced those efforts.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will take to the world stage while fighting for his political future in a critical national election.

The Americans being held in China are U Min Zin, a scholar who studied Myanmar, and Youlin Chen, a seismologist who researched North Korean nuclear tests.

Thousands of migrants cross the sea between France and England each year, though numbers have fallen amid increased policing.

Balendra Shah, 36, comes to the U.N. as a sun-glassed symbol of Gen Z political power. But concerns about his style are growing at home after devastating floods left thousands dead or missing.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said one soldier tried to kill himself when he was captured. “This is how they raise people in the North,” he said.

Australia is exploring potential legal action after an artificial intelligence agent accessed nonpublic information on the country’s universal health care system.

Delcy Rodríguez did not set a timeline for a vote in a speech at the United Nations.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that U.S. negotiators had restarted conversations about Iran’s nuclear program, but that there were no breakthroughs.

In contrast to President Trump’s calls for an unfettered A.I. industry, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada called for international coordination on regulations.

In a wide-ranging interview, Prime Minister Mark Carney described a tense, evolving relationship with President Trump.