• UK Leader Fighting For His Job
  • Standoff Escalates Over Strait of Hormuz
  • Russian Attacks Kill 2 in Ukraine
  • US Negotiators to Meet Iran on Monday
  • Exit poll suggests center-left coalition of former president Rumen Radev will win Bulgaria election
UK police investigating if arson attacks on Jewish sites in London are the work of Iranian proxies

LONDON (AP) – U.K. police said Sunday they are investigating whether a string of arson attacks on Jewish sites in London are the work of Iranian proxies, as the country’s chief rabbi said British Jews are facing a campaign of violence and intimidation.

Pope prays at Catholic shrine in Angola that was a center of African slave trade

MUXIMA, Angola (AP) – Pope Leo XIV on Sunday recalled the “sorrow and great suffering” Angolans endured for centuries, as the American pope prayed at a Catholic shrine located at the site of an important hub of the African slave trade during Portugal’s colonial rule.

Starmer's Mandelson nightmare never ends. This time, it may cost him his job

LONDON (AP) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer probably wishes he had never heard the name Peter Mandelson. Starmer is again facing questions over his future. And again, it’s do with his misguided decision to appoint a self-professed “best pal” of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Oil prices rise anew after a US-Iran standoff in the Strait of Hormuz

NEW YORK (AP) – Oil prices rose in early trading Sunday as a standoff between Iran and the U.S. prevented tankers from using the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf waterway that is crucial to global energy supplies.

Canada's prime minister says economic ties with US are a weakness that must be corrected

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a video address released Sunday that Canada’s strong economic ties to the United States were once a strength but are now a weakness that must be corrected.

US backs South Africa project to extract rare earths despite diplomatic clash

PHALABORWA, South Africa (AP) – Two enormous sandlike dunes at an old chemical processing plant in South Africa are at the center of an exploratory U.S.-backed project to extract highly sought-after rare earth elements from industrial mining waste.

Standoff escalates over Strait of Hormuz

Trump said US negotiators will be in Pakistan on Monday for talks with Iran, resuming negotiations after Iran reversed its decision to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and warned that it would continue to block transit through the strait as long as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect.

Russian attacks kill at least 2 as Ukraine strikes a Russian drone factory

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian strikes killed at least two people in Ukraine, officials said Sunday, as the Ukrainian military struck a drone factory in southwestern Russia. A “massive” nighttime drone strike on Chernihiv in northern Ukraine killed a 16-year-old boy and wounded four others.

US negotiators will go to Pakistan for more talks with Iran

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump said U.S. negotiators will head to Pakistan on Monday for another round of talks with Iran, raising hopes of extending a fragile ceasefire set to expire by Wednesday, even as Washington and Tehran remain in a standoff over the Strait of Hormuz.