The U.S. Congress needs to pass a stop-gap bill to keep the federal government funded and could also vote on protecting gay marriage rights during a brief Washington work period starting on Tuesday before Democrats and Republicans return to the campaign trail.
Maria Jones used to enjoy watching television - until November's midterm elections invaded her living room.
Japanese prosecutors arrested two officials at a sponsor of the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday as part of a widening bribery investigation that media said involved a former member of the Tokyo 2020 board.
U.S. states have enacted more than 30 new voting restrictions since 2020, from voter ID requirements to limits on mail-in voting, fueling tensions between Republicans and Democrats ahead of November's general election.
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro is calling supporters to attend street rallies alongside Independence Day military parades on Wednesday, a showing that may gauge support for the far-right leader's attacks on democratic institutions ahead of an October election.
Three civilians including an elderly woman were killed in Russian rocket attacks on Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region, a senior official said on Tuesday, while rescuers searched the rubble of a residential building hit in Kharkiv city centre.
Belgian chemicals group Solvay said it plans to cut industrial waste discharged into the sea from soda-ash production on a Tuscan beach, in the wake of pressure from environmentalists and activist Bluebell Capital Partners.Solvay, which had previously pushed back on concerns the waste may be harmful, now plans to invest around 15 million euros ($14.96 million) to reduce the release of limestone residue into the sea at its facility in Rosignano, Italy, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.
National Cellulite Day is all about remembering to be authentic and accepting oneself.
The European Union signed a deal with war-torn Ukraine on Monday to release a further 500 million euros ($497 million) in planned aid.
Kenya in tense wait for Supreme Court verdict on election
A ruff deal: Hong Kong exodus sparks surge in abandoned pets
Solomon Islands PM says to lift ban on foreign navy ships soon
Pregnant women caught in Pakistan floods desperate for aid
One century on, cult of Mussolini persists in Italy
The European Union should set up a fiscal capacity to pay for EU public goods, link the pace of debt cuts to individual country risk and let independent fiscal councils play a bigger role in policy, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.
Ukraine's winegrower 'closest to the frontline'
China accuses US of 'tens of thousands' of cyberattacks
Pakistani authorities are struggling to prevent the country's biggest lake bursting its banks and inundating nearby towns after unprecedented flooding, while the disaster management agency on Monday raised its toll of flood deaths by another 24.
A private jet carrying four people, including the pilot, crashed off the Latvian coast on Sunday evening.
OPEC+ is likely to keep oil output quotas unchanged for October at a meeting on Monday, five OPEC+ sources said, although some sources would not rule out a small production cut to bolster prices that have slid due to fears of an economic slowdown.
G20 energy talks in Bali ended Friday with the world's leading economies pledging to accelerate the transition to cleaner energy.
There is a 5% chance that the flare may trigger a powerful geomagnetic storm in the Earth's atmosphere
Bankrupt Sri Lanka's deposed president 'to return home'
Amid financial uncertainty, Brazilians prepare to vote
Pandas and Trump teach Hong Kong kids about national security crimes
Group of Seven finance ministers are expected to firm up plans on Friday to impose a price cap on Russian oil aimed at slashing revenues for Moscow's war in Ukraine but keeping crude flowing to avoid price spikes, G7 officials said.
Chile to vote on overhauling dictatorship-era constitution
Myanmar's Suu Kyi sentenced to three years for electoral fraud: source
Flood-born: Nothing but mud as mother, infant return to Pakistan home
Months after the Solomon Islands struck a security pact with China, its leader has repeatedly appeared to snub the United States, heightening Washington's concern but not deterring it from trying to keep the Pacific nation out of Beijing's orbit.
