By NICOLE WINFIELD, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Tuesday at the site of a deadly 2020 Beirut port explosion that has become a symbol of dysfunction and official impunity and called for justice to prevail, as he offered words of ...

By OPE ADETAYO Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday nominated the former military chief as defense minister just weeks after he was made to step down. There was no immediate explanation for why Gen. Christopher Musa, who led the military from ...

By LORNE COOK Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte brushed off fresh concern Tuesday about the United States' commitment to the military organization on the eve of a meeting of allied foreign ministers focused on Russia's war against Ukraine. U.S. Secretary ...

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — The right to trial by jury will be pared back in Britain in an attempt to clear a backlog of cases clogging up the justice system, the government announced Tuesday. Justice Secretary David Lammy said overload and delays had created "an ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's Taliban authorities carried out a public execution at a stadium in the eastern city of Khost on Tuesday, putting to death a man who the country's Supreme Court said had killed 13 members of a family, including several children, earlier this year. Tens ...

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for his role in helping drug traffickers move hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States, was released ...