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A new era is coming for Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel in the wake of the capture by U.S. authorities of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the last of the grand old Mexican drug traffickers

Philippine government personnel have transported food and other supplies to a fiercely disputed shoal occupied by a Filipino navy contingent without any clashes with China

Flags, motorcycles, electronic merengue and all sorts of T-shirts — including one styled as a photo collage of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour — have all been part of the monthslong campaigns leading into Sunday’s heated presidential election in Venezuela. President Nicolás Maduro is seeking a third six-year term in office, and he and his ruling party are facing their toughest electoral challenge in decades. After years of election boycotts and internal divisions, the main opposition parties have come together to support a single candidate, former diplomat Edmundo González Urrutia. He is representing the opposition coalition after the winner of the bloc’s primary, María Corina Machado, was sidelined by the government.

Top diplomats from Southeast Asia are gathered in the Laotian capital with partners that include the United States, China, Russia, Japan, India and Australia

ABC News’ Stephanie Ramos speaks with political analyst Liz Rebecca Alarcón about Sunday’s elections in Venezuela that might boot President Nicolas Maduro and restore freedoms and economic stability.

Pakistani officials say hundreds of supporters of a key Islamist party have started a sit-in protest in the garrison city of Rawalpindi after authorities detained several people to stop them from holding a rally in the neighboring capital, citing secur...

A U.N. body that regulates deep international waters is preparing to elect its next leader, a crucial position as it faces pressure to either ban, approve or place a moratorium on seabed mining

Finance ministers from leading rich and developing nations have agreed to strive toward effectively taxing the super-rich

Argentine President Javier Milei and French President Emmanuel Macron have met in Paris where they appeared to put aside recent controversy stemming from their countries’ fierce soccer rivalry

Canadian officials say a wildfire in Jasper National Park in the Canadian Rockies this week has destroyed more than 350 structures but all of the critical infrastructure is intact

A Dublin museum has pulled a wax figure of Sinéad O’Connor from its collection after fans and family members complained that it did not compare to how the late singer looked

Joaquin Guzman Lopez and Ismael Zambada Garcia were arrested in Texas. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland says the cartel ships thousands of pounds of drugs like fentanyl into the U.S. every day.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has thanked Guatemala for helping nearly 600 Mexicans who have crossed into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violence

The Jasper Wildfire Complex perimeter was estimated to be 36,000 hectares.

A federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico’s finances has filed a lawsuit challenging amendments to the island’s net metering law, triggering a backlash

Trains at all major Paris stations have been delayed after fires and at least 800,000 people have been affected.

The head of France’s rail network called it a "coordinated attack."

The shipwreck was discovered in the Baltic Sea, about 20 nautical miles off the Swedish coast, by a team of Polish technical divers from the group Baltictech.

The Finnish defense ministry says a Russian vessel is suspected of a territorial violation of Finland’s marine area in the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea

Hungary will seek to resolve a disagreement with Ukraine over the transfer of Russian oil to avoid a potential energy crisis, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's chief of staff says

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.

ABC News’ Lama Hasan discusses Prince Harry’s recent statements, including why he refuses to bring his wife Meghan Markle back to the U.K.

ABC News’ Lara Spencer and James Longman join from Paris ahead of the Olympic opening ceremony.

ABC News correspondent Ines de la Cuetara breaks down the Olympic torch's journey to France and the anticipated opening for the Olympic Games.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's controversial trip to the United States comes as ceasefire talks to broker an end to the raging war in Gaza and bring about a hostage-for-prisoners exchange hang in the balance

Russian security services say a former defense ministry official has been arrested on corruption charges

Maria Corina Machado has walked highways, sought shelter in supporters’ homes and seen her closest collaborators detained and persecuted as she crisscrossed Venezuela ahead of the upcoming presidential election

Russia’s Central Bank has raised its key lending rate to the highest level in more than two years to stem soaring inflation in an overheated economy hit by Western sanctions in response to Moscow’s military action in Ukraine

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office says the U.K. will not intervene with the International Criminal Court’s request for an arrest warrant against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Two trains carrying athletes to Paris Olympics were stopped hours before opening ceremony, linked to sabotage - SNCF

UK drops plans to challenge the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant request against Benjamin Netanyahu

Schools in Haiti’s capital and beyond are crumbling as gang violence deepens poverty and disrupts basic government services as the state education system faces a $23 million deficit

Serbia's state television reports that a van carrying some 50 migrants overturned on Friday in southwestern Serbia, injuring more than 30

French PM says rail attacks targeted three main routes to Paris and aimed to 'block the high-speed train network'

The European Union says it had made 1.5 billion euros available to support Ukraine, the first tranche of money generated from profits on frozen Russian assets

The governor of Italy’s northern Liguria region has resigned after being held under house arrest since May as part of a corruption investigation by local prosecutors

In the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks, a small nongovernmental group called Jerusalem Peacebuilders is pressing ahead with its ambitions help shape Israeli, Palestinian and American teenagers into future leaders

Arson attacks on France’s rail network have taken place in what police say is a "massive attack to destabilize the railway system," hours before the Olympic Games begin.

South African police say they have arrested 95 Libyan nationals on suspicion of receiving training at a secret military camp in the north of the country

Paris prosecutor opens investigation into pre-Olympics rail arson, saying crime carries up to 20 years' prison

Russia’s top security agency says it has arrested a man accused of staging a car bombing on Ukrainian orders

It is the first time in history the opening ceremony is not held at a stadium.

Doctors were performing surgery on a 5-month-old when the building was struck.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with Donald Trump at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate for their first face-to-face meeting in nearly four years as the two sought to mend their political alliance

What was Typhoon Gaemi has weakened to a severe tropical storm and is moving inland toward central China on after making landfall Thursday night on the east coast

A team of Polish divers has discovered the wreckage of an old sailing ship loaded “to the brim” with luxury goods including porcelain items and about 100 bottles of Champagne and mineral water off the Swedish coast

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make the case for the Biden administration’s expanded commitment to Asia and the Indo-Pacific as he visits Laos, Vietnam, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore and Mongolia this week and next

The Philippine coast guard says there has been no indication that a big cargo of industrial fuel oil stored in a tanker that sank in stormy weather in Manila Bay has started to leak out

Ethiopian lawmakers declared three days of mourning Friday as diggers continued the search for bodies of mudslide victims in a remote part of the East African country

The Charaideo Moidam royal burial complex and shrines, built by northeast India’s Ahom dynasty, has been inscribed as a new World Heritage Site, the United Nations’ cultural agency