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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday (May 14) in the first visit to Ukraine by a senior U.S. official since Congress passed a long-delayed $61 billion military aid package for the country last month.

As Japan embarks on a major military build-up, it's struggling to fill its ranks with the women that its forces need and its policymakers have pledged to recruit, and some victims say an entrenched culture of harassment is the reason. Laila Shahrokhshahi reports.

Tensions were high on the northern Mexican border in Ciudad Juarez on Monday (May 13) when a group of migrants attempted to cut through the fence erected by the Texas National Guard to prevent them from approaching the border wall.

Residents of Mexico City turned to fountains and pools to fight the high temperatures that hit not only the capital but much of Mexico on Monday (May 13).

Firefighters on Monday (May 13) battled a large wildfire heading towards a remote western Canadian town as winds and tinder dry conditions threatened to spread the flames further, a provincial minister said. Bowinn Ma, British Columbia's minister of emergency management and climate readiness, said approximately 4,700 people were placed under an evacuation order.

U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday (May 13) that President Joe Biden's administration did not view the killings of Palestinians in Gaza by Israel in its war with Hamas as a genocide.

U.S. crews in Baltimore set off a controlled explosion on Monday (May 13) to allow them to remove a portion of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the bow of the massive container ship that toppled the span in March.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet ministers were heckled on Monday (May 13) at ceremonies to mark Memorial Day, when Israel commemorates fallen soldiers and Israeli civilian victims of attacks.

A former economy minister of Kazakhstan was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Monday for murdering his wife following a widely watched trial that some saw as a litmus test of the president's promise to strengthen women's rights. Olivia Zollino has more.

Israeli protesters blocked aid trucks headed for Gaza on Monday (May 13), strewing food packages on the road in the latest in a series of incidents that have come as Israel has pledged to allow uninterrupted humanitarian supplies into the besieged enclave.

After watching their schools and universities be closed, damaged or destroyed in more than seven months of war, Gazans are doing what they can to restart some learning. Lucy Fielder reports.

Forty-nine Vatican Museums employees have started an unprecedented labor dispute over what they say are unfair and poor conditions at their workplace, which could lead to an embarrassing lawsuit against Pope Francis' administration. Lauren Anthony reports.

Turkish police arrested a man suspected of trying to smuggle valuable poisonous spiders and scorpions out of the country, with state media identifying the suspect on Monday (May 13) as a curator at New York's American Museum of Natural History.

This year's "Choose France" event - an annual summit aimed at attracting foreign investment to France - will result in around $16.2 billion (15 billion euros) worth of foreign investments, up from last year, said the French presidency on Monday (May 13). Francis Maguire reports.

South Africans will vote in a national election on May 29 with an unprecedented sense of uncertainty about the outcome, as polls suggest the African National Congress will lose its majority after 30 years in power. Alice Rizzo has more.

With some of the most intense fighting for weeks now taking place on both the northern and southern edges of Gaza, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have again taken flight. Some, though, have decided to stay.

Flash floods and mud slides in Indonesia's West Sumatra province killed at least 43 people over the weekend while a search for 15 missing people continued, authorities said on Monday (May 13). Vanesse Chan reports.

Palestinians were seen fleeing the streets of Jabalia on Monday (May 13), as Israeli tanks, under cover of heavy fire from both air and ground, pushed further into the area in the northern Gaza Strip, according to residents and Hamas media.

Flooding in the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul State brought with it a series of crimes including robberies and looting, according to authorities.

Voters across India’s restive Kashmir Valley cast their ballots on Monday (May 13) in the fourth phase of India’s seven-week long general election. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is not contesting in Kashmir, where a 35-year uprising against Indian rule has killed tens of thousands of people. Opposition National Conference party president Farooq Abdullah spoke to Reuters.

Indonesia's Ibu volcano on the remote island of Halmahera erupted on Monday (May 13) morning, spewing thick columns of grey ash several kilometres into the sky, the country's volcanology agency said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defense minister on Sunday (May 12) in an attempt to better integrate Russia's military spending into the country's overall economy, and harness greater innovation to win in Ukraine. Gabe Singer reports.

Spain's Socialists won the biggest share of the vote in Sunday's Catalan elections, dealing a serious blow to more than a decade of separatist governance and the independence dreams still nursed by some in the wealthy northeastern region. Laila Shahrokhshahi reports.

Thousands of Georgians gathered outside the parliament building in Tbilisi on Sunday (May 12) to protest against a law on "foreign agents," a day before the bill's third reading.

At least 31 people died, 15 are still missing and over 40 people were injured following heavy rain that brought floods and landslides to Indonesia's province of West Sumatra, an official said on Sunday (May 12).