European markets traded firmly in the red on Friday morning as concerns over the banking sector reached the region. The Pan-European Stoxx 600 was 1.5% lower at 11:30 a.m. in London (6:30 a.m. ET), with all major indexes and sectors in negative territory. The U.K.’s FTSE index was 1.3% lower, France’s CAC 40 was down...

As Israel pulled back in Gaza last week, Hamas stepped in, with violence marked by at least one public execution and clashes with rival factions as the militant group tried to reassert control amid the ceasefire in the war-torn territory. The message was clear: We are still here. The disarmament of Hamas is the most...

Baek Se-hee, the South Korean author of the bestselling memoir I Want to Die but I Want To Eat Tteokbokki has died at the age of 35. Her 2018 book, a compilation of conversations with her psychiatrist about her depression, was a cultural phenomenon with its themes of mental health resonating with readers across the...

EL ALTO, Bolivia — EL ALTO, Bolivia (AP) — After nearly two decades of one-party rule, three years of an accelerating currency crisis and too many months of mind-numbing fuel lines, Bolivia is lurching to the right. For the first time since Bolivia’s Movement Toward Socialism party, or MAS, rocketed to power in 2005 under...

Hongdae street in Seoul city, South Korea Twenty47studio | Moment | Getty Images South Korea’s Kospi hit a record high for the third straight day Friday, as trade talks continued with the U.S., bucking wider losses in Asia. The Kospi was the only market in positive territory, touching an intraday high of 3,794.87. Meanwhile, the...

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Gustavo Ocando AlexReporting from Maracaibo, Venezuela for BBC News Mundo Gustavo Ocando Alex Wilder Fernández is a young fisherman in the west of Venezuela who is concerned by the US military presence in the Caribbean Wilder Fernández has caught four good-sized fish in the murky waters of a small bay north of Lake Maracaibo. The...