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Oct 13, 2025 - World

The death toll from Mexico’s torrential rains has increased to 47, as the fallout mounted from widespread flooding and landslides across the country

Oct 12, 2025 - World

POZA RICA, Mexico (AP) — The death toll from Mexico’s torrential rains increased, as the fallout mounted from widespread flooding and landslides across the country. President Claudia Sheinbaum convened governors from hard-hit states to direct an emergency response plan Sunday and visited Poza Rica, Veracruz state. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

Oct 12, 2025 - World

Donald Trump on Sunday posted a comment about China, telling citizens not to "worry" about the country or his "highly respected" Chinese counterpart.The president took to his own social media site, Truth Social, over the weekend, where he insisted there was nothing to worry about with China, a nation which Trump recently threatened with even more tariffs in an escalating trade dispute."Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine!" Trump wrote Sunday. "Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT."See the post here.

Oct 12, 2025 - World

María Corina Machado’s Nobel award puts focus on country but analysts doubt it will produce democratic changeIn March 2019 as a nationwide blackout plunged Venezuela into darkness, hundreds of citizens huddled on a basketball court in the city of Maracaibo to hear their leader promise to guide them out of the gloom.“We are, quite literally, living through our darkest hour. But these are also the brightest of times,” María Corina Machado told supporters as they used mobile phones to illuminate the night. Continue reading...

Oct 12, 2025 - World

Escalation comes after Pakistani airstrike in Kabul, with Taliban launching reprisals against military postsIntense clashes erupted along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Saturday night, after an attack by the Afghan Taliban on Pakistani military posts led to a heavy exchange of fire and reportedly left dozens of soldiers dead.According to officials, Afghan troops opened fire on Pakistani army posts along the north-western border with Pakistan on Saturday night and seized several of the posts. The attacks came after the Taliban regime in Afghanistan accused Pakistan of carrying out airstrikes on Afghan territory, including in the capital, Kabul, earlier this week. Continue reading...