Mexico will likely elect a woman as its next president, but the new leader is expected to face financial limitations due to commitments initiated by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.López Obrador has proposed new and expensive projects in the closing months of his administration, leaving big-ticket projects unfinished.Officials warn that…

Christian Bruckner, 47, a suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, has gone on trial for unrelated sexual offenses in Portugal.The charges include three counts of rape and two of sexual abuse of children.Bruckner, who is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence in Germany for a 2005 rape in Portugal,…

Egypt is setting up an area along its border with the Gaza Strip that could shelter Palestinians if an Israeli military offensive in Rafah sparks a mass exodus, a report says. Three security sources told Reuters that Egypt has started preparing a desert area with basic facilities as part of a…

The European Union is expanding its strict digital rulebook on Saturday to almost all online platforms in the bloc, in the next phase of its crackdown on toxic social media content and dodgy ecommerce products that began last year by targeting the most popular services.The EU’s trailblazing Digital Services Act…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Some of Hungary’s best-known online personalities led a crowd of at least 10,000 protesters in Budapest on Friday to demand a change in the country’s political culture, a response to the conservative president’s recent resignation over a pardon she issued in a child sexual abuse case.Demonstrators…

MUNICH (AP) — Top diplomats from the U.S. and China on Friday held a “candid and constructive” discussion on issues vexing their strained relations over Taiwan, the situation in the South China Sea, Russia’s war against Ukraine and synthetic opioids, the State Department said.The meeting between U.S. Secretary of State…

Senegal will hold its next presidential election as soon as possible after a Constitutional Council ruling.The ruling overrode President Macky Sall’s delay of the Feb. 25 election, raising concerns of authoritarian creep in one of Africa’s most stable democracies.Sall reportedly intends to cooperate with the order.Senegal will hold a presidential…

Zimbabwe’s powerful vice president said the government will block a university scholarship for young LGBTQ+ people, a move that human rights groups described Friday as a perpetuation of the African country’s homophobic practices.The state university scholarship for people between the ages of 18 and 35 is sponsored by GALZ, a…

An accident at a supermarket construction site in the Italian city of Florence on Friday killed at least three workers and left two others missing, local officials said.The accident happened when a reinforced concrete beam toppled over a slab of a pre-fabricated building, which then collapsed. Local authorities said rescue…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former high-ranking FBI counterintelligence official was sentenced on Friday to more than two years in prison for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from a businessman with ties to the Albanian government — and trying to conceal their corrupt financial relationship.Charles McGonigal, 55, supervised…