Álvaro García Ortiz was handed a two-year ban from office and a fine in a case tied to a leaked email involving the partner of Madrid regional leader Isabel Díaz Ayuso.
Donald Trump said he signed legislation requiring the US Justice Department to release unclassified Jeffrey Epstein files in a searchable public format, while allowing some redactions for victims and active investigations.
Greg Abbott has declared the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR terrorist organizations and banned them from operating in Texas, escalating a long-running political fight over extremism and civil liberties.
Chile’s presidential race moved to a December runoff after Jeannette Jara and Jose Antonio Kast finished first and second without either candidate clearing the 50 percent threshold.
President Daniel Noboa says the head of Ecuador’s Los Lobos gang was detained in Málaga after faking his own death and living under a false identity in Europe.
Polish authorities are investigating two acts of sabotage on a key rail line after Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the suspects were Ukrainian citizens who had long worked for Russian intelligence.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to present plans that would shorten refugee protection, delay settlement rights and make asylum support more discretionary.
Benin's National Assembly approved a constitutional reform extending presidential and parliamentary terms to seven years and creating a Senate, but the change still needs constitutional review and would take effect after April's presidential vote.
Pakistan says it has arrested four militants linked to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan after a suicide bombing outside a district court in Islamabad killed 12 people.
Authorities in South Carolina charged a 27-year-old man with murder after a mass shooting at a St. Helena Island bar left four people dead and 15 injured.
President Samia Suluhu Hassan has created an inquiry commission to investigate killings during election protests and ordered the release of some detainees, responding to unrest that followed the vote.
The former rebel leader is refusing food in Paris as his trial over atrocities from the Second Congo War continues, with victims’ groups calling the move an attempt to evade accountability.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy moved to contain a widening energy-sector scandal as investigators alleged a major kickback scheme at state company Energoatom.