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Comment on this storyComment TAPACHULA, Mexico — Around 3,000 migrants set out Sunday on what they call a mass protest procession through southern Mexico to demand the end of detention centers like the one that caught fire last month, killing 40 migrants. The migrants started from the city of Tapachula,…

Comment on this storyComment NAIROBI, Kenya — Thirty-nine bodies have been found so far on land owned by a pastor in coastal Kenya who was arrested for telling his followers to fast to death. Malindi sub-county police chief John Kemboi said that more shallow graves have yet to be dug…

Comment on this storyComment More foreign powers evacuated diplomatic staff from Sudan on Sunday, battling perilous conditions to extract personnel as fierce fighting between the Sudanese army and paramilitary forces raged in the capital, Khartoum. One person was injured when a French diplomatic convoy came under fire in the city,…

France, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania condemned remarks made by China’s ambassador to Paris that questioned the legitimacy of former Soviet states. “They don’t have actual status in international law because there is no international agreement to confirm their sovereign status,” Lu Shaye falsely claimed on France’s LCI news channel last…

BERLIN — A train hit a car at a crossing in northern Germany early Sunday, killing all three people in the car, police said. Police said that the regional train hit the car at full speed near Neustadt am Ruebenberge, outside the city of Hannover, German news agency dpa reported….

Comment on this storyComment KHARTOUM, Sudan — American embassy staffers were airlifted from Sudan early Sunday, as forces loyal to rival generals battled for control of Africa’s third-largest nation for a ninth day amid fading hopes for deescalation. The warring sides said they were helping coordinate the evacuation of foreigners,…

Comment on this storyComment The U.S. military completed the evacuation of all American embassy personnel and family members from Sudan early Sunday local time, President Biden said, as rival military factions battled for control of the country amid a sharp uptick in casualties in Africa’s third-largest nation. “I am grateful…

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Police enforced a curfew in a community on the southern fringes of Jamaica’s capital Saturday after gunmen fired on people boarding a public minibus, wounding seven, including three children. The Jamaica Constabulary Force gave no information on the conditions of the wounded from the brazen attack, which…

Comment on this storyComment TEL AVIV, Israel — Tens of thousands of protesters flocked to Tel Aviv and cities across Israel on Saturday to vent their opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government and its divisive plan to overhaul the country’s judicial system. The mass protest — staged weekly…

Moscow plans to expel more than 20 German diplomats in reaction to its own diplomats being told to leave Berlin, Russian state media reports. Meanwhile, Ukraine is preparing new brigades that will “show themselves at the front,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, without revealing when and how many fresh units…