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SEDAVI, Spain — Francisco Murgui went out to try to salvage his motorbike when the water started to rise. He never came back. One week after catastrophic flooding devasted eastern Spain, María Murgui still holds out hope that her father is alive and among the unknown number of the missing. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “He was like many people in town who went out to get their car or motorbike to safety,” the 27-year-old told The Associated Press.

KYIV, Ukraine — North Korean troops recently deployed to help Russia in its war with Ukraine have come under Ukrainian fire, a Kyiv official said Tuesday. It is the first time a Ukrainian official has said that Pyongyang’s units were struck, following a deployment that has given the war a new complexion as it approaches its 1,000-day milestone. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “The first North Korean troops have already been shelled, in the Kursk region,” Andrii Kovalenko, the head of the counter-disinformation branch of Ukraine’s Security Council, wrote on Telegram.

THULASENDRAPURAM, India — The temple reverberated with rhythmic Sanskrit and Tamil hymns, as a Hindu priest held a flame before the god. As this tiny South Indian village gathered to pray for Kamala Harris, a gaggle of reporters jostled for space and camera angles. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] There’s little to distinguish the village of Thulasendrapuram from any other rural community in Tamil Nadu, except its connection to a woman who could become America’s first leader with South Asian roots. As millions of Americans vote, Harris has people rooting for her from thousands of miles away in a village surrounded by rice paddies and coconut trees, where her mother’s family has ancestral ties.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Tuesday fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern sea, the South Korean military said, as the country continued its weapons demonstrations hours before the U. S. presidential election. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff didn’t immediately specify the number of missiles detected or how far they flew.

BEIRUT — The 13-month war between Israel and Hezbollah has killed more than 3,000 people in Lebanon, the country’s Health Ministry said on Monday, more than double the number of people killed since their last major war two decades ago. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The war shows no signs of ending, and Israel has said it is carrying out new operations targeting Hezbollah infrastructure across Lebanon and in parts of Syria while Hezbollah continues to launch dozens of rockets into northern Israel. Read More: Hezbollah and Israel Stare Into the Abyss Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel the day after Hamas’ surprise attack into Israel on Oct.

In 2016, Americans unwittingly took part in demonstrations set up by the Russian government. There were “Florida Goes Trump” rallies in Ft. Lauderdale and Coral Spring, and dueling protests at an Islamic center in Houston—all of them, federal officials assert, orchestrated on Facebook by Russian agents. After the 2020 elections, Iran was behind a website filled with death threats against U.