Voters rejected the long-dominant MAS party amid an economic crisis, giving centrist senator Rodrigo Paz a surprise first-place finish ahead of former president Jorge Quiroga.
A shooting in Forio, on the Italian island of Ischia, killed three people including the suspect, and left one woman critically injured, Leggo reported.
Military authorities say the arrests followed an investigation into an alleged plot that began on August 1, but provided few details about the suspected conspiracy.
President Dina Boluarte signed a law shielding military, police and self-defense personnel accused of human rights crimes committed during Peru’s internal conflict from 1980 to 2000, triggering outrage from victims’ families and rights groups.
Police say heavily armed suspects arrived by motorcycle and car before opening fire in rural Guayas, in another deadly night for Ecuador's coastal provinces.
Haiti's government declared a three-month state of emergency across the West, Artibonite and Centre departments, tying the move to worsening insecurity and a deepening agricultural and food crisis.
Brazil’s president has blocked dozens of provisions in a congressional bill, preserving limits on some of the most sweeping changes to licensing rules.
Beirut approved the objectives of a U.S.-backed proposal to restrict weapons to the state, setting up a showdown with Hezbollah after a cabinet meeting marred by walkouts and threats.
Rushanara Ali resigned after questions over her handling of rent increases on a property she owns raised a conflict-of-interest row on the event date, August 7, 2025.
A Susquehanna County shooting left a neighbor dead, two Pennsylvania state troopers seriously wounded and the suspected gunman killed in a police response.
The new Polish president enters office as a conservative nationalist with close ties to the MAGA movement and an agenda that could sharpen conflict at home and abroad.
South Korea’s ousted former first lady was questioned for about seven hours in a widening special-prosecutor investigation into allegations around stock trading, bribery and party nominations.
Finance minister Rimantas Šadžius has been installed as Lithuania’s temporary prime minister while the Social Democrats prepare a new nomination after Gintautas Paluckas stepped down.
Lithuania’s prime minister stepped down on Monday, triggering the constitutional resignation of the whole government and opening a 15-day race to form a new cabinet.
Jung Chung-rae has been elected leader of South Korea’s Democratic Party at the party convention in Goyang, giving the veteran lawmaker control of the country’s main opposition force.
Military courts in Myanmar have given life sentences to a dozen people, including five Chinese nationals, in cases tied to trafficking and forced marriage schemes.