Two passenger trains derailed in India, killing more than 200 people and trapping hundreds of others inside more than a dozen damaged rail cars

Panama has launched a security operation along its shared border with Colombia to combat organized crime groups and migrant smugglers involved in record-setting migration through the perilous Darien Gap this year

Scores of residents from Canada’s Atlantic Coast province of Nova Scotia whose homes have been destroyed by wildfires boarded buses to get a look at what little remains of where they used to live

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the United States and its allies should not support a cease-fire or peace talks to end the war in Ukraine until Kyiv gains strength and can negotiate on its own terms

Senegal's government says at least nine people have been killed in violent clashes between police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has released excerpts of his correspondence with prison administrators, detailing his sarcastic demands for things like a bottle of moonshine, a balalaika and even a kangaroo

America’s top military officer says training for Ukrainian forces on advanced U.S. Abrams tanks has started, but those weapons crucial over the long term in trying to expel Russia from occupied territory will not be ready in time for Kyiv’s imminent counteroffensive

Italian media are reporting that three members of Italy's border police force are under investigation in connection with a February shipwreck in which more 90 migrants died

Iran has released one Danish and two Austrian citizens, according to the European countries

As tensions grow between the United States and China in the Asia-Pacific, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has told a gathering of top defense officials that open channels of communication are critical to preserving peace

Germany’s defense minister says his country will look into a report that former German air force fighter plane pilots have been training pilots for the Chinese military

Prominent members of German mainstream parties have expressed alarm at a new poll released showing support for the far-right Alternative for Germany at a record high

Critics accuse the British administration of running “government by WhatsApp” due to the popularity of the messaging app with politicians and officials

Polish President Andrzej Duda has said unexpectedly that he was proposing urgent amendments to a contentious law on Russian influences that he signed this week and that drew U.S. and European Union criticism

Germany's national labor agency says the country has labor shortages in one-sixth of professions and the number is growing