Greece also worked to contain blazes on Lesbos and in the Peloponnese, where another firefighter died, in the midst of a brutal wildfire season for Europe.

When asked about a possible trip, Leo XIV said that he had been looking at the calendar for the “next couple of years.”

Russian missiles have briefly entered Polish airspace during Russian strikes on western Ukraine in the past, but a missile has never hit Poland itself.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that a family of five had been killed at home in the latest in a series of large-scale aerial assaults by Moscow.

China’s A.I. rise is creating a new dilemma for Beijing. The open models that win influence abroad may pose risks to the country’s security and geopolitical strategy.

A top Cuban official says the island won’t negotiate its politics, but it is willing to talk investment, including from President Trump.

Rescue crews were working to find people who might still be trapped in a collapsed shopping mall, as the region faced sweltering heat.

Iran-aligned militias in Iraq were under growing pressure to disarm, but the latest strikes may embolden them to get more deeply involved in the war.

As Europe’s climate warms, even moorlands and forests in the Cairngorms, in the Scottish Highlands, have fallen victim to rapidly spreading flames.

The case against Pavel Durov reflected an ongoing fight over one of the world’s most popular messaging and media apps, which is widely used in the country.