First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber has assumed the duties of president Monday and will hold an election within 50 days.

Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez accused each other’s parties of having ties to Mexico’s drug cartels and pledged to cut homicides.

Mohammad Mokhber, as Iran’s first vice president since 2021, will get interim presidential powers after Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash in Iran.

Austin Scott Miller, the last four-star U.S. commander based in Kabul, met privately with House lawmakers scrutinizing the Biden administration’s Afghanistan exit.

The hard-line protégé of Iran’s supreme leader died in a helicopter crash along with other officials.

Tapas Ray defected from his centrist, secular party for the right-wing, Hindu nationalist BJP, and his “vote bank” of backers has stuck with him.