The New York City mayor had pledged since his campaign to detain the Israeli Prime Minister, who denies international charges of war crimes, but Mamdani said in a video on Tuesday that he doesn’t have the authority.

Levies on 18 percent of Brazilian exports are a political gift to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the expense of a Trump ally.

Lebanon's prime minister Wednesday visited a battered southern village as a Lebanese-Israeli agreement brokered by Washington appears to have started following a monthslong war. Nawaf Salam's appearance in Zawtar Al Gharbieh comes a day after President Joseph Aoun's landmark White House meeting with U.

More episodes of wildfire smoke are in the offing for parts of Canada and the midwestern and northeastern United States.

U.S. ​Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday during a regional gathering led by the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN, ‌where top diplomats voiced concern about renewed Middle East hostilities and tension in the South China Sea.

India’s opposition parties protested in New Delhi Monday, calling for the rollback of a controversial revision of the voter list in one of the country’s poorest states, where key elections are scheduled in November.

Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega said his country won't be holding elections anytime soon, a statement underscoring the strongman's efforts to extend his nearly 20-year rule and dashing hopes by the opposition that he might heed their demands for a democratic vote.

U.S. lawmakers and Israeli officials have expressed opposition to such a plan, to be announced Wednesday, fearing that the kingdom could use a civilian nuclear project to develop nuclear weapons.