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The Paris prosecutor’s office said seven people had been arrested in connection with the abduction last week. It did not name the freed captive or his son.

The Trump administration cut off aid to Colombia that has been vital to keeping the promises of a peace deal with a major rebel group, as violence worsens in many corners of the country.

A push to rename streets and remove statues associated with imperial Russia is dividing Odesa, whose identity is tied up in its history.

The April 22 terrorist attack in Kashmir inflamed a long-simmering conflict that could boil over into military confrontation.

Some papal contenders offered hints in Sunday Masses at what kind of pope they might want, or want to be.

The army chief, Gen. Syed Asim Munir, who usually works behind the scenes, has been shaping Pakistan’s tone in the crisis over Kashmir with his own tough talk.

Her free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach was not disrupted. The police said a group had planned to attack it with improvised explosives.

Some international airlines suspended flights, and Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, threatened to retaliate.

In voting in Canada and Australia, right-wing parties that borrowed from the MAGA playbook were punished. Elsewhere, President Trump is having a more complex impact.

George Simion bucked a recent trend of voters around the world punishing candidates seen as friendly to President Trump.