Colombia's new right-wing president joined a US anti-cartel coalition and signed nuclear and minerals agreements, but the trade deal Bogotá wants has yet to arrive.
Prosecutors want the Philippine vice-president to testify on the unexplained-wealth charge, while four absent senators leave the 16-vote conviction threshold in doubt.
Authorities say a "sabotage cell" that included foreign nationals also planned to hit a power station south of Tripoli, after weeks of attacks on one of Libya's biggest refineries.
Exit polls gave the party a commanding lead in Sunday's state election. Whether it can assemble a coalition is a separate and much harder question.
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met President Zelenskyy in Kyiv a day after talks with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, but both capitals came away from the weekend without a deal.
A glacier collapse on the Nepal-China border killed more than 1,200 people. Hundreds of similar lakes across the Himalaya have no early-warning system at all.
The IDF said it hit infrastructure in southern Lebanon after two explosive drones were launched toward troops operating on the Ali al-Taher Ridge.
Cartel politics in Mexico, border violence in Colombia and court battles in Brazil are separate problems with one shared feature: the patience holding them in place is running out.
Japan hosts the 2026 Asian Games from late September, with athletics spread across two Nagoya venues and India defending its kabaddi titles.
Strong quarters in Nigeria and a turnaround at Eskom point one way; borrowing costs and thin capital markets point another. The gap between them is the continent's central economic question.
Polls put the far-right veteran on course for the presidency, while Jordan Bardella met Nigel Farage in Birmingham to discuss cooperation on migration.