The Black Sea isn’t meant to be this black. A popular seaside town in Russia has seen oil wash onto its beaches, dark drops of rain and oil soot land on homes, and plumes of thick acrid smoke billow above its red rooftops.

Brazil's Congress approved legislation that could significantly reduce prison sentences for former President Jair Bolsonaro over a 2023 coup attempt.

With the cease-fire fraying and Israel demolishing villages in the south, many Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon are putting aside their annoyance with the group and turning to it for protection.

Video released by Israeli police shows a French nun being shoved and kicked in Jerusalem. Authorities say a 36-year-old man has been arrested in connection with what they described as a “racially motivated assault.

Former President Joe Biden has endorsed Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms in the Georgia gubernatorial race. Bottoms worked in his administration.

Venezuela's oil exports rose ​14% to 1.23 million barrels per day ‌in April, the highest in more than seven years, fueled by more sales to the United States, India and ​Europe, shipping data and documents from state ​company PDVSA showed on Friday.

Iran is using the ceasefire to dig out weapons. Trump signs a bill to end the DHS shutdown. And previewing the Kentucky Derby.

Israel said 2 of the 175 activists its navy detained after it raided a flotilla bringing aid to Gaza had been brought back to Israel for questioning.