More than 70,000 police officers fanned out in Paris and other cities while stores boarded up their facades after last week's riots. The Louvre closed for the day.

Saudi Arabia has reopened its main airport for international flights after Houthi rebel strikes knocked it out of service. On Sunday, Saudi authorities intercepted a ballistic missile and a

Footage broadcast on Jordanian state television showed three gunmen firing shots at a Greek Orthodox church in the city of Karak on Friday.

For two decades since leaving Israel for Canada, Yael Natra said, she didn’t consider returning to vote in her home country’s elections. She felt it wasn’t right to cast a ballot in a place she no longer lived.

Borr ⁠Drilling said ⁠on Sunday its Prospector ​5 drilling rig sank ‌during jacking operations ‌off ⁠the ⁠coast of Gabon as it was preparing ​for a drilling campaign, with 5 of ​the 115 people on board ⁠unaccounted ⁠for.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited China on Saturday, inaugurating a new bridge that connects the two countries and saying he hoped to expand cooperation with his powerful neighbor.Kim’s visit to China is his latest move in an increasingly assertive foreign policy as he seeks to align Pyongyang with Beijing and Moscow in a united front against the United States under what he portrays as a “new Cold War.

The police said on Saturday that the structure, a tourist attraction for decades, was probably not salvageable. A man was arrested in connection with the blaze.

With the two leading AI powers, the United States and China, forming their own AI blocs, other countries are maneuvering to harness the strengths of both groupings without alienating either and riskin