A spate of mass shootings in three major South African cities killed nearly 40 people this week, with such incidents increasingly common in a country already known for its high crime rates. On Saturday night,

Small island states are often on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, offering moral advice to mightier nations that isn’t always heard.

Pope Leo XIV continued an apostolic journey to France on Saturday by celebrating mass in front of 700,000 people at the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

Mosaics by Marko Rupnik, a Slovenian priest-artist, were covered up after at least 20 women accused him of sexual and psychological abuse. He is now on trial.

Turkey’s ruling party has accepted the resignation of its deputy chairwoman. Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya, from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, has been accused of making tens of millions of dollars from shares sold just before a stock market crisis.

More than two-thirds voted against a proposal to write a strictly defined version of neutrality into the Swiss constitution, the latest projections showed.

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham called for “calm on all sides” as a tense standoff between unionists and nationalists in the Northern Irish town of Portadown threatened to boil over.

Six people were killed in an explosion in Athens, Greece, and four of them are reportedly Americans who were about to travel home Friday afternoon.