WORLD NEWS

Ukrainian forces are making a major effort to punch through Russian defensive lines in southeast Ukraine for a second day in what may be the start of a counteroffensive.

Dozens of World War II veterans have traveled to Normandy to mark the 79th anniversary of D-Day, the decisive but deadly assault that led to the liberation of France and Western Europe from Nazi control.

The ruling party of Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has won the governorship of the country’s most populous state.

Several survivors of the train crash in India that killed 275 people and injured more than 800 said they are still in shock.

Violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group has made Burkina Faso a country with one of the world’s fastest-growing populations of internally displaced people.

A lawyer for Prince Harry says no event early in his life was too trivial or private for the journalists of Mirror Group Newspapers to resist.

The United Nations climate chief says phasing out all fossil fuels is central to curbing global warming.

The United States military has released video of what it called an “unsafe” Chinese maneuver in the Taiwan Strait on the weekend, in which a Chinese navy ship cut sharply across the path of an American destroyer, forcing the U.S. vessel to slow to avoid a collision.

President Joe Biden has thanked Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen for Denmark’s role in a Western alliance “standing up” for Ukraine as it tries to fend off Russia’s 15-month-old invasion.

An award-winning Hong Kong journalist has won an appeal quashing a conviction related to research for an investigative documentary in a rare court ruling upholding media freedom in the Chinese territory.

An Australian woman who spent 20 years in prison was pardoned and released based on new scientific evidence that her four children died by natural causes as she had insisted.

The U.S. Navy says its sailors and the United Kingdom Royal Navy came to the aid of a ship in the crucial Strait of Hormuz after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard “harassed” it.

The imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has voiced hope for a better future in Russia as his supporters held demonstrations to mark his birthday.

Bissau-Guineans are voting in a highly anticipated election to fill Guinea-Bissau’s national legislature.

Russia says it thwarted a large Ukrainian attack in the eastern province of Donetsk, though it’s unclear if this was the start of a Ukrainian counteroffensive.

China has tightened access to Tiananmen Square in central Beijing on the anniversary of 1989 pro-democracy protests.

A spokesperson for Egypt's Suez Canal says a tanker transporting crude oil broke down in the canal, briefly disrupting traffic in the global waterway.

Saudi Arabia says it will reduce how much oil it sends to the global economy.

Officials say a wildfire that forced thousands of resident from their homes in Canada’s Atlantic Coast province of Nova Scotia is now contained, while a second wildfire remains out of control.

Hong Kong police have detained eight people on the eve of the 34th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown.

The chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway is being transferred to a prison near Peru’s capital ahead of his pending extradition to the United States to face charges linked to her vanishing.

The archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica has performed a special rite at the basilica's main altar.

Senegal's government says the number of people killed in clashes between police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has now risen to 15, including two security officers.

Libyan activists say authorities in eastern Libya have rounded up thousands of migrants and amassed them in an area on the border with Egypt.