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Attacker shot dead after firing crossbow at police officer outside Israel's embassy in Serbia

By Dusan Stojanovic, Associated Press

An attacker with a crossbow wounded a Serbian police officer guarding the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade on Saturday, Serbia’s Interior Ministry said. The officer responded by fatally shooting the assailant.

Iranian reformist Pezeshkian and hard-liner Jalili head to runoff presidential election

By Jon Gambrell, Amir Vahdat, Associated Press

Iran will hold a runoff presidential election pitting a little-known reformist against a hard-line former nuclear negotiator after results released Saturday showed the lowest-ever poll turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history.

U.S. removes Gaza pier due to weather. It may not return unless aid flow resumes, officials say

By Tara Copp, Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press

While the military has helped deliver desperately needed food through the pier, the vast majority of it is still sitting in the adjacent storage yard and that area is almost full. Aid agencies have had difficulty moving the food further…

Putin aims to resume Russian production of previously banned intermediate missiles

By Associated Press

Putin said Russia has not produced such missiles since the 2019 treaty scrapping, but he said that the U.S. has not only produced such missile systems but also deployed them.

As his supporters rally, Bolivia's president lambasts accusations of a self-coup as 'lies'

By Paola Flores, Isabel DeBre, Associated Press

Bolivian President Luis Arce has denied being behind an attempted coup against him and said the general who apparently led it “acted on his own,” lashing out at accusations that he had asked for the mutiny in a plan to…

Amid rising tensions in Mideast, polls close in Iran's presidential election after hard-liner's death

By Jon Gambrell, Nasser Karimi, Associated Press

The race’s sole reformist candidate vowed to seek “friendly relations” with the West in an effort to energize supporters in a vote beset by apathy. Voters faced a choice Friday between hard-line candidates and the little-known Masoud Pezeshkian.

Mongolians cast votes to elect expanded 126-seat parliament

By Ken Moritsugu, Associated Press

Voters in Mongolia are electing a new parliament on Friday in their landlocked democracy that is squeezed between China and Russia, two much larger authoritarian states.

EU leaders appoint top officials to serve as the face of world's largest trading bloc

By Ella Joyner, Samuel Petrequin, Lorne Cook, Associated Press

European Union leaders signed off on a trio of top appointments for their shared political institutions on Thursday, reinstalling German conservative Ursula von der Leyen as president of the European Commission for another five years.

68 sick and injured children allowed to leave Gaza in first medical evacuation in weeks

By Mohamed Jahjouh, Wafaa Shurafa, Kareem Chehayeb, Associated Press

Israeli authorities say 68 people - sick and injured children and their companions - have been allowed out of the Gaza Strip and into Egypt in the first medical evacuation since May.