Conservative leader Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s president on Tuesday after winning the June presidential runoff by a margin of fewer than 50,000 votes, a victory that confirmed a regional shift in South America toward the conservative wing.

Bystanders watch the smoke and flames from a wildfire on July 21, 2026 in Cotignac, France.FBM Media— Firefighters in France and Spain are racing to contain wildfires inching closer to Bordeaux and Madrid.

The Kenya Wildlife Service said 10 of the elephants showed signs of partial paralysis before dying within two days.

Peru’s new president won the election after votes from citizens living abroad were counted. It’s the first time such a scenario has ever happened.

Oil prices have plunged this week, tumbling on fresh hopes that the US and Iran could soon renew talks to end the war.

An OpenAI artificial intelligence agent that breached systems at Hugging Face Inc. also compromised a customer at a second technology company, New York-based Modal Labs, Reuters reported.

The government in Moscow is coming under increasing pressure over Ukraine's relentless drone strikes. Ukraine's president is due to meet in Washington with President Donald Trump on Tuesday.

With their ally, Iran, bottling up the Strait of Hormuz, the Houthi group in Yemen is escalating its declared blockade of Saudi shipping in another vital waterway, the Red Sea.