President Vladimir Putin vowed Tuesday to track down the masterminds of the Moscow concert hall attack that left 144 people dead in the worst assault on Russian soil in two decades, and urged its law enforcement agencies to tighten security at mass gatherings.Putin has repeatedly sought to link the March…

Pope Francis has exposed the political “maneuvers” used to sway votes during the two most recent elections of popes, while denying he is planning to reform the process for future conclaves, in a book-length interview published Tuesday.The confidential revelations are contained in “The Successor: My Memories of Benedict XVI,” in…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday urged delegates at a conference on justice and compensation in Ukraine to continue efforts to tackle impunity for war crimes in order to “provide real strength to our common security — security from aggressions and terror.”Ministers and officials from…

Mexico’s president said Tuesday that he was hurt by the killing of a mayoral candidate just hours after she requested protection and started campaigning. A city council candidate who was wounded in the same attack on Monday also died, authorities said.President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the killing of his…

A Peruvian archbishop who sued two journalists over their reports about sexual abuse and financial corruption in his religious movement, Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, has resigned amid a Vatican investigation.Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Piura Archbishop José Eguren. At 67, he is several years shy of the normal…

Greek authorities on Tuesday ordered an urgent investigation into a woman’s fatal stabbing outside an Athens police precinct where she had just requested protection from an ex-boyfriend.The 28-year-old’s death triggered new calls by left-wing opposition parties for femicide — the killing of women or girls with a gender-related motivation —…

Some 53,125 people fled Port-au-Prince, Haiti, between March 8 and 27, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.Over 60% of them are making their way toward the nation’s rural south, already home to more than 116,000 others taking refuge from the predominantly gang-run capital.”Our humanitarian colleagues emphasized that these departments…

An earthquake rocked the entire island of Taiwan early Wednesday, collapsing buildings in a southern city and sparking a tsunami warning for southern Japanese islands.Video and images on social media showed buildings shaken off their foundations.The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake at a 7.5 while Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring agency…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s President Dina Boluarte will answer questions Friday over her ownership of a trio of luxury watches, her attorneys said Tuesday, a day after she reshuffled her cabinet as an alleged illicit enrichment scandal further threatens her presidency.The Cabinet shakeup Monday came as lawmakers submitted to…

The president of Cyprus said Tuesday he has personally asked the head of the European Union’s executive arm to intercede with Lebanese authorities so that they could put a stop to boatloads of Syrian refugees from heading to the east Mediterranean island nation.President Nikos Christodoulides told reporters that Lebanon is…