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El Mencho killed; cartel reprisals leave at least 26 dead across Mexico as U.S., Canada issue travel warnings At least 25 members of Mexico’s National Guard and one security guard have been killed in cartel attacks following the capture and death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the infamous Jalisco New Generation Cartel boss known as “El Mencho,” Mexico’s security authorities said Monday. Oseguera, long considered Mexico’s most-wanted cartel leader, died in custody after being wounded during a Mexican special forces operation…

Russian strikes kill at least 3 in Ukraine as Hungary threatens EU sanctions veto over Druzhba pipeline Russian drone and missile attacks overnight killed at least three people and wounded several others in Ukraine, regional officials said today, as European Union ministers clashed over a fresh package of sanctions targeting Moscow. In the Odesa region, two people were killed when drones struck, and three others were wounded, regional governor Oleg Kiper said. In Zaporizhzhia, a drone attack on industrial facilities killed a…

An Israeli drone strike hit Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp on Friday, killing one person and wounding others, state media said, as the Israeli military claimed it targeted a Hamas command center in the Ain al-Helweh camp near the southern city of Sidon. Lebanon’s National News Agency reported the strike on a neighborhood inside the densely populated camp on Sidon’s outskirts. An AFP correspondent saw smoke rising from a building as ambulances rushed to the scene. In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces said its…

U.S. forces killed 11 people in strikes on three alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, U.S. Southern Command said in a post on X late yesterday, renewing a contentious campaign that has drawn mounting legal scrutiny. Southern Command said the attacks hit “three vessels being operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations,” killing four people on each of two boats in the Eastern Pacific and three on a third boat in the Caribbean. No U.S. military personnel were harmed, the command…

At least 14 people — including 11 security personnel — were killed in two bomb attacks and a gunfight in northwest Pakistan, authorities said, underscoring a surge in militant violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province along the Afghan border. At least 25 others were wounded across the separate incidents. A security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a suicide bomber in the evening rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the wall of a religious college in Bajaur district. “The blast also caused the roofs of…

Nine dead, 27 wounded in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., school shooting; suspect also dead, RCMP says Nine people were killed and 27 wounded in a mass shooting that centered on a secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said, marking one of the deadliest acts of violence in the province in recent years. The suspected shooter is also dead, police said. RCMP said seven people were killed at the school. Officers found six victims shot dead during a sweep of the building; a seventh person with…

TRIPOLI — A rubber boat carrying 55 migrants from several African countries overturned off the coast of Libya after taking on water about six hours after leaving al-Zawiya, the U.N. migration agency said, in one of the deadliest incidents this year on the Libya‑Europe route. Only two women from Nigeria survived and received emergency medical care from the International Organization for Migration, the agency said. Survivors told IOM officials the overcrowded dinghy departed late at night and capsized north of Zuwara. One…

IOM: 53 dead or missing after migrant boat capsizes off Libya; two women survive Fifty-three migrants, including two babies, are dead or missing after a rubber boat carrying 55 people capsized off Libya’s northwest coast, the International Organization for Migration said. The boat departed from Zawiya on Thursday and overturned off nearby Zuwara on Friday, according to the IOM, citing accounts from the two survivors. Both are Nigerian women rescued by Libyan authorities during a search-and-rescue operation, the agency said.…

ISLAMABAD — A suicide bombing tore through a Shia mosque on the outskirts of Pakistan’s capital after morning prayers, killing at least 31 people and wounding more than 130, local authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks to strike Islamabad in recent years. The blast hit the Imam Bargah Qasr-e-Khadijatul Kubra mosque in the Tarlai area, where worshippers had gathered at the start of the day. A senior police official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the toll was expected to rise as critically injured victims…

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi Reported Dead Amid Conflicting Accounts Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the 53-year-old son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has reportedly been shot dead at his home in Zintan. Khaled al-Zaidi, his lawyer, stated that a four-man commando unit carried out the assassination, although the identities of those behind the attack remain unclear. Meanwhile, a conflicting account from Saif's sister suggests he met his end near the Algerian border. Once considered the most prominent and feared figure in Libya…