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Last Sunday was Earth’s hottest day in recorded history

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

Yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years, according to the European climate service Copernicus.

Olympians have more access to resources after Biles, Osaka and Phelps spoke up about mental health

By Howard Fendrich, Eddie Pells, Associated Press

Athletes heading to the Paris Olympics have more access than ever to resources in the once-taboo realm of mental health and many sound more willing than ever to use them.

Mudslides in Ethiopia have killed at least 229. It’s not clear how many people are still missing

By Amanuel Gebremedhin Birhane, Associated Press

Landslides are common during Ethiopia's rainy reason, which started in July and is expected to last until mid-September.

Rivals Hamas and Fatah sign China-sponsored declaration to form a future government as war rages in Gaza

By Jack Jeffrey, Tia Goldenberg, Huizhong Wu, Associated Press

The declaration comes at a sensitive time as Israel and Hamas weigh a cease-fire proposal.

The Canary Islands are overwhelmed with thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, and are asking Spain for help

By Renata Brito, Associated Press

On Tuesday Spain's parliament will vote to consider a proposal that would force other regions to share the burden and take responsibility for some of the minors.

Israeli government quietly sends more than $20 million to unauthorized West Bank settler outposts

By Melanie Lidman, Associated Press

The Ministry of Settlements and National Mission, which is headed by a far-right settler leader, has confirmed it budgeted over $20 million last year for security equipment for unauthorized Jewish farms and outposts.

News Wrap: Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis kill at least 70

In our news wrap Monday, Israeli airstrikes tore through buildings in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, a gunman in Croatia killed six people at a nursing home, body camera footage released shows the chaotic moments in which a…

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Brazil’s Lula ‘frightened’ by Maduro’s talk of a bloodbath after Venezuela’s election

By Mauricio Savarese, Associated Press

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro should respect the results of the elections scheduled for Sunday.

Israeli military orders evacuation of humanitarian zone in Gaza

By Wafaa Shurafa, Melanie Lidman, Associated Press

Gaza's Health Ministry says new Israeli airstrikes have sent the death toll in the war to over 39,000 Palestinians.

U.S.-Russian journalist convicted in a rapid, secret trial, court records show in Russia

By Associated Press

Alsu Kurmasheva, an editor for RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir service, was convicted of “spreading false information” about the military, according to the website of the Supreme Court of Tatarstan.