Since last week, activists from several countries have left Mexican ports on vessels loaded with food and other supplies for Cuba, which faces a humanitarian crisis in the face of a U.S.-imposed fuel embargo.

European stocks opened lower despite the U.S. extending its pause on military strikes on Iran by 10 days. Asian markets fell overnight, while U.S. stock futures rose slightly. European stocks fell on Friday after U.

Zelenskyy says U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine are tied to ceding Donbas to Russia, warning the proposal could weaken Kyiv and European security.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a friendship and cooperation treaty following talks in Pyongyang, state media reported Friday.

Noelia Castillo, a Spanish woman who sought euthanasia and later fought a protracted legal battle with her family over her right to do so, received life-ending medicine on Thursday in Barcelona. She was 25.

A U.S. judge pressed the Trump administration Thursday about its basis for barring Venezuela's government from paying former President Nicolás Maduro's legal fees in the drug trafficking case that has put him behind bars in New York.

High oil prices are boosting the Kremlin’s coffers, helping plug a hole in its federal budget and sustain the war effort in Ukraine. But beyond oil, a global scramble for natural gas and fertilizer supplies — also choked off by the Iran conflict — could further boost Russia’s financial gains.

The government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has pursued an intensifying campaign against critics in a tough race before April elections.