WORLD NEWS

The cause of global warming is showing no signs of slowing as heat-trapping carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has increased to record highs in its annual Spring peak.

Scientists have found that air quality monitoring stations pick up lots of DNA that can reveal what plants and animals have been in the area.

The D-Day invasion that helped change the course of World War II was unprecedented in scale and audacity.

The head of the International Atomic Agency says that the U.N. nuclear watchdog will “never politicize” its work in Iran.

The European Union has stepped up its rule-of-law fight with member state Poland after the bloc’s highest court confirmed that Warsaw refuses to comply with the EU rules on judicial independence for which it has already lost over half a billion euros in fines.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the U.K. government will house hundreds more asylum-seekers on barges.

There are no Ukrainian troops present at this year's commemorations of the 1944 D-Day landings in Normandy, which launched the Allied invasion of Europe and led to the end of World War II.

Belgium is investigating whether weapons it sent to help Ukraine defend its territory were used just over the border in Russia.

Families of the victims of India’s deadliest train crash in decades are filling a hospital to try to identify the bodies of their loved ones.

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.

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.

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi pressed criticism of his country’s leadership during a speech in New York on Sunday.

The blockbuster exhibition of paintings by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer has closed its doors for the final time.

Senegal’s government has temporarily suspended mobile phone data as the country reels from days of deadly clashes between police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko.

London police say a soccer fan who attended the FA Cup final has been charged for wearing an offensive jersey that apparently referred to the 1989 Hillsborough Stadium disaster where 97 Liverpool fans died after being crushed.

Old cars, used tires and barbed wire block off the biggest neighborhood in the capital of Haiti.

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

Defenders of Ukraine's city of Bakhmut are keeping up the pressure even though Russian forces declared victory there after the longest, deadliest battle of the war so far.

Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in an anti-government protest in Poland’s capital.

A quick-count sampling of votes for governor of Mexico’s most populous state suggests a victory for the candidate from the governing party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which would end nearly a century of uninterrupted rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

An Indian railway official says the derailment that killed 275 people and injured hundreds more was caused by an error in the electronic signaling system that led a train to wrongly change tracks and crash into a freight train.

China’s defense minister has defended sailing a warship across the path of an American destroyer and Canadian frigate transiting the Taiwan Strait, telling a gathering of some of the world’s top defense officials in Singapore that so-called “freedom of navigation” patrols are a provocation to China.