QUITO - Ecuadorans began voting Sunday in a too-close-to-call presidential election pitting the incumbent, security hawk Daniel Noboa, against a charismatic leftist challenger in a country plagued by drug-related violence.

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump warned Sunday that no country would be getting "off the hook" on tariffs despite a 90-day reprieve on some levies, while also downplaying exemptions for Chinese technology.

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro on Sunday insisted that "everything's fine with Elon" Musk, after the Tesla chief called him a "moron."

GUAYAQUIL (ECUADOR) - Cartel violence is hollowing out Ecuador's largest city Guayaquil, scaring away tourists, pummelling the economy and leaving whoever wins Sunday's presidential election with a gargantuan problem.

The number of non-local pregnant women refused entry at Hong Kong's borders for failing to have a local hospital booking has surged by five times since 2020, official figures show.

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Myanmar on Sunday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.

LEEUWARDEN (NETHERLANDS) — Fighter jets from the United States, France, Finland and Germany roar into the skies from a Dutch base as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (Nato) biggest air exercise this year.

TEHRAN — Iran is seeking a "real and fair" agreement with the United States on its nuclear programme, a senior aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday, setting the stage for a diplomatic showdown this weekend in Oman.

PARIS - A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the constellation Virgo is “waking up”, shooting out intense X-ray flares at regular intervals that have puzzled scientists, a study said on Friday.

Regian Eersel has set his sights on a Muay Thai title defence in Denver – and reclaiming the vacant ONE Championship lightweight kickboxing title “maybe before that”.