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Runners from the Chicago area who witnessed the Boston explosions are returning home.
Tens of thousands of mostly opposition supporters protested Sunday against Mexico’s president in the capital's vast colonial-era main plaza ahead of the June presidential election. The protesters in Mexico City carried signs saying “We are Mexicans,” referring to what they claim are attempts by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to divide the country. Mexico is extremely polarized ahead of the June 2 presidential election.
Janet Napolitano, Arizona's 21st governor, sat for an exclusive interview with The Arizona Republic during a return trip to the state she led for six years.
The DR Congo military on Sunday said it had thwarted an "attempted coup" near the offices of President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa involving "foreigners and Congolese".He said that the attempt included "foreigners and Congolese" but that none of them "including their leader, could any longer cause harm".
The timeline followed four days of talks in the capital city of Niamey.
Police in Savannah, Georgia, are investigating a shooting that injured 11 people in the city's downtown area late on Saturday night.
Luxury watch prices are moderating on the secondary market, but retailers like Watches of Switzerland see demand continuing to outpace supply.
The Illinois senator is attempting to help a doctor who saved her life during fighting in Iraq in 2004.
An Israeli minister on Sunday criticised in Madrid Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's plans to recognise a Palestinian state, saying this would be "rewarding" the attack carried out by Hamas against Israel."Unfortunately, the current prime minister of Spain, Sanchez, believes that the Palestinians should be rewarded for the massacre -- that this is the time to give them a state," he told the meeting.
Iran launched a large-scale search and rescue effort to scour a fog-shrouded mountain area after President Ebrahim Raisi's helicopter went missing Sunday in what state media described as an "accident". The accident happened in the mountainous protected forest area of Dizmar near the town of Varzaghan, said the official IRNA news agency.
Two attacks against mayoral candidates in Mexico's June elections have left nine people dead in the southern state of Chiapas, the prosecutor's office in the organized crime-plagued region said Sunday.The attacks marked an escalation of violence in Chiapas against politicians intending to seek office in the June 2 vote, when Mexicans will also elect a new president.
Ukraine is trying to put a halt to noticeable Russian momentum on the battlefield.
The US has reached an agreement with Niger to withdraw its military forces from the African nation by September 15, according to the US Defense Department and the Nigerien Ministry of National Defense.
President Joe Biden told students at the former university of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr on Sunday that he heard their voices over protests against the war in Gaza that have roiled US campuses.Your voices should be heard, and I promise you I hear them," said Biden, who wore a maroon and black gown in the colors of the historically Black university.
Almost two months after its devastating collision with a Baltimore bridge, the trapped cargo ship Dali will refloat and travel to the Baltimore marine terminal on Monday morning, officials said.
The unified command organizations overseeing the response said work would begin early on Monday to move the cargo ship Dali to a local marine terminal. Maryland Governor Wes Moore told NBC's Meet the Press that workers were on track to completely clear the channel this month, which would restore full access to the busiest port for car shipments in the U.S. The impact caused the bridge to collapse, killing six road construction workers and hindering vessel traffic through the channel and vehicle traffic along the I-95 corridor in the U.S. Northeast.
Spain recalled its ambassador to Buenos Aires for consultations on Sunday after Argentina's President Javier Milei made derogatory comments about Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife during a far-right rally in Madrid. Milei had called Sanchez's wife Begona Gomez "corrupt" during a rally in Madrid organised by the far-right Vox party and attended by many of its international allies. Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said he expected an apology from Milei.
Israel called for bipartisan support on Sunday from the United States against the establishment of a Palestinian state, which it said would be a reward for Hamas and its backer Iran. European Union members including Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and Malta have said they could recognise a Palestinian state this month, seeing a two-state solution as essential for lasting peace. Israel's foreign minister, Israel Katz, who met top House Republican Elise Stefanik earlier, said if a Palestinian state was established, Iran would use it as a base to "work towards the destruction of Israel".
For the documentary “The Last Alzheimer’s Patient”, Dr. Sanjay Gupta underwent intensive testing of his own body and brain to understand his risk of dementia.
Sean "Diddy" Combs issued an apology Sunday after footage was released that appeared to show him beating his ex-girlfriend Cassie in 2016.
* According to article 131 of the Islamic Republic's constitution, if a president dies in office the first vice president takes over, with the confirmation of the supreme leader, who has the final say in all matters of state. * A council consisting of the first vice president, the speaker of parliament and the head of the judiciary must arrange a election for a new president within a maximum period of 50 days. Raisi was elected president in 2021 and, under the current timetable, presidential elections are due to take place in 2025.