A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa killed two women and a toddler, authorities said Monday, while Ukrainian long-range drones targeted Russia’s key Black Sea port for oil exports. The nighttime attack on Odesa heavily damaged an apartment block, killing the women and a 2-year-old child, officials said. Rescuers working under floodlights pulled four people from the rubble. Eleven people were hospitalized, including a pregnant woman and two children — the youngest less than a year old, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X. Russia has pounded civilian areas of Ukraine since it...

Peace talks between Afghanistan’s Taliban government and Pakistan are advancing, China’s government said Friday, two days after those countries resumed conversations following weeks of fighting that have killed hundreds. “The consultation process is being steadily implemented and advanced,” said China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning. Xi Jinping’s government is mediating between Islamabad and Kabul, whose representatives resumed the talks on Wednesday in the western Chinese city of Urumqi. “The three parties have also reached consensus and arrangements on a specific operational mode, including media coverage,” she added, without giving more details. “Since the recent escalation of the Pakistan–Afghanistan conflict, China...

A toddler was lightly injured by a wolf at a Pennsylvania theme park zoo after he crawled under a fence and stuck his hand into the animal’s enclosure, officials at the zoo confirmed Sunday. The child was never inside the wolf habitat at the ZooAmerica North American Wildlife Park, which is part of the Hersheypark theme park, and the officials characterized the injuries as minor without elaborating. After the “unsupervised” child reached the metal enclosure around the wolf habitat on Saturday morning and put his hand through, a wolf approached “and made contact with the child’s hand,” according to a...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni congratulated the police late Saturday for the arrest of an alleged crime boss and one of Italy’s most wanted fugitives. Authorities announced the arrest of Roberto Mazzarella, 48, following a raid Friday on a villa on the Amalfi Coast in southern Italy after allegedly using false documents to rent the luxury coastal property. Meloni, who is on a tour of Gulf states, described Mazzarella’s arrest as an “an important blow against the Camorra,” referring to the notorious criminal organization that originated in Naples. “This sends a clear message that the state will not back down”...

president Pedro Sánchez: “For the first time, Spain reaches 22 million affiliates in Social Security. “You are the ones who lift, push, and build this country. A team that is making history. ¡22 million jobs!”

President Ahmed al-Sharaa: “In Damascus, I received Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy , where avenues for enhancing economic cooperation and exchanging expertise were discussed. “The visit underscores Syria’s orientation toward expanding its international partnerships in a manner that supports development and bolsters stability.”

Congo will receive some migrants as part of a new deal under the Trump administration’s third-country program, its government said Sunday, the latest such African nation to receive migrants being deported from the U.S. The deportees will start arriving in Congo this month, the Congolese Ministry of Communications said in a statement, without further details on the date or the number of deportees expected. It described the arrangement as a “temporary” one that reflects Congo’s “commitment to human dignity and international solidarity.” It would come with zero costs to the government with the U.S. covering the needed logistics, it said....

At least 26 people have been killed in three separate Easter attacks in northern Nigeria, according to the Nigerian military and local officials. At least 17 were killed on Saturday when armed men attacked the Mbalom community in the Gwer West area of Nigeria’s north-central Benue State. Benue State Gov. Hyacinth Alia confirmed the attacks on Sunday, but did not specify how many people were killed in the attack. Residents gave the figure of 17. Attacks like these are part of a long-running cycle of violence in north-central Nigeria, where disputes over land and grazing between mostly Muslim Fulani herders...

The Strait of Hormuz, key for 20% of global oil, remains restricted during weeks of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. President Trump ramped up pressure via Truth Social posts and interviews, admitting U.S. arms shipments to Iranian protesters via Kurds, while Iranian officials vowed forceful responses. Mediators proposed a Pakistan-brokered ‘Islamabad Accord’ with an immediate ceasefire, strait reopening, and talks on nuclear limits and sanctions; markets eased as Brent crude fell below $113. However, Iran has rejected U.S threat of deadlines but received the plan, with the world eyeing Tuesday’s outcome. A senior Iranian official said Tehran will not...