A 52-year-old woman who was adopted to a French family in 1984 without her biological parents’ consent has filed for compensation from South Korea’s government, citing how authorities at the time fraudulently documented her as an orphan although she had a family. The rare petition filed by Yooree Kim came months after South Korea’s truth commission recognized her and 55 other adoptees as victims of human rights violations, including falsified child origins, lost records and child protection failures. Her case was highlighted last year in an Associated Press investigation in collaboration with FRONTLINE (PBS). The investigation found that South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked...

A teenager who admitted shooting Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay during a political rally was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years of detention at a youth rehabilitation facility. The sentence, announced by Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office, comes more than two weeks after Uribe died from the injuries he suffered in the June 7 attack. The shooting alarmed Colombians, recalling some of the darkest chapters of the country’s drug-fueled violence. The Attorney General’s Office in a statement said the charges against the 15-year-old boy included attempted homicide and the manufacture, trafficking, carrying or possession of firearms, accessories, parts...

 Mexico said Wednesday its postal service was suspending package shipments to the United States ahead of an end to the exemption on tariff duties for low-value packages by the Trump administration. The announcement follows similar moves by postal services from the European Union and several other countries to pause shipping as they await more clarity on the U.S. measure. It also comes during monthslong negotiations between the Mexican government and the Trump administration to avoid wider tariffs. The exemption — known as the “ de minimis” exemption, which allows packages worth less than $800 to come into the U.S. duty free — is ending Friday....

Bolivian opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho won his release to house arrest Wednesday after two years and eight months of pretrial detention, a surprise move that empowered his supporters who long criticized his prosecution as unjust and disheartened his detractors who complained of political pressures overriding procedural tradition. Wednesday’s court order applied to the last of two cases that landed Camacho, the conservative governor of Bolivia’s easternmost province of Santa Cruz, behind bars pending a trial. He had already been ordered freed to house arrest on Tuesday in the most explosive case, alleging his involvement in violent unrest over the disputed 2019 reelection of socialist former President...

 A shooter opened fire with a rifle Wednesday through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis and struck some of the nearly 200 children celebrating Mass during the first week of school, killing two and wounding 17 people in an act of violence the police chief called “absolutely incomprehensible.” Armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol, 23-year-old Robin Westman approached the side of the church and shot dozens of rounds through the windows toward the children sitting in the pews during Mass at the Annunciation Catholic School just before 8:30 a.m., Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said at news conferences. He...

A mass Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital, including a rare strike in the center of the city, early Thursday killed at least 10 people and wounded 48, local authorities said. It was the first major Russian combined attack on Kyiv in weeks as U.S.-led peace efforts to end the three-year war struggled to gain traction. Among the dead were two children, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said, citing preliminary information. The numbers are expected to rise. Rescue teams were on site to pull people trapped underneath the rubble. “Russia chooses ballistics instead of the negotiating table,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr...