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TEHRAN ― A huge funeral procession for Iran’s slain supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was held in Tehran on Monday morning, with a teeming crowd clogging the streets to bid farewell to the ayatollah who ruled the country for 37 years before his death in an airstrike at age 86. Mourners began making their way into the heart of the Iranian capital before dawn Monday, riding the metro, driving and walking on foot. As crowds formed, people began to chant “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!” And some of the mourners demanded retribution.

BEIJING – China's military test-fired a missile from a nuclear-powered submarine into the Pacific on Monday, state media reported, drawing criticism and concern from U.S., Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan.

Political donors will need to wait a year after returning to the U.K. before they can give more than $133,510 as part of a proposed crackdown on offshore political finance that threatens to hit Nigel Farage’s Reform U.K. The U.K. government plans to introduce the measures that will also mean tougher checks for companies wanting to donate, assessing them against their post-tax profits rather than revenue to ensure they are legitimate U.K.-linked businesses, a government statement said on Monday.

Russian missiles and drones struck the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Monday, killing at least seven people and hitting apartment blocks and other buildings, Tymur Tkachenko, head of ​the city's military administration, said on Telegram. Rescue crews were pulling residents from buildings shattered by the overnight barrage, said Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko. Tkachenko ⁠said the death toll included two bodies pulled out of a heavily damaged apartment ‌building in the historic Podilskyi district. Altogether, ​24 people were injured throughout the city.

MANILA, Phillippines – The impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, which begins on Monday, is set to frame the Philippines 2028 presidential race and deepen a schism between two storied political dynasties that has plunged the Senate into turmoil. The outcome will not only determine whether Duterte could run for the presidency, it will also test confidence in the Southeast Asian nation’s institutions and politicians. Analysts say the ​key will be whether the public sees the verdict as credible or instead driven by partisan interests.

The death toll from Venezuela's twin quakes ​has risen to 3,342, according to numbers released by ⁠the Venezuelan information ministry ‌on Sunday. The new ​tally also puts the number of injured at 16,470 while ⁠the number of ‌homeless ‌has risen to 17,345.

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish authorities detained more than 100 people taking part in an anti-NATO protest march organized by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) on Sunday, ahead of ​an alliance summit in Ankara next week, the party said in a statement.

JERUSALEM – Israeli cabinet members on Sunday voted to defy a Supreme Court decision regarding the country's broadcast regulator, raising concerns of a constitutional crisis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed Ukraine and the upcoming NATO summit in Turkey in a phone call Saturday. Putin congratulated Trump on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in the call that lasted 85 minutes, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said in an audio message to reporters. “The presidents naturally touched on the topic of a ...

SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observed the test firing of a strategic cruise missile and evaluations of anti-ship, anti-submarine ​and air defense systems aboard the naval destroyer Kang Kon, state media KCNA reported on Sunday. The tests ⁠were conducted on Friday as part of an assessment of ‌the newly built warship's combat ​systems. They included checks of target-detection and information-processing capabilities, integrated firepower systems, naval guns, automatic cannons and electronic warfare equipment, KCNA said.

With hopes of finding additional survivors fading, Venezuela is entering a new phase of its earthquake response centered on rebuilding shattered communities as officials reported 2,954 dead and a U.N.-backed assessment estimated $37 billion in direct physical damage. The twin 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that struck north-central Venezuela on June 24, just 39 seconds apart, have left ...

Iran’s ambassador to Beijing said China and other friendly nations will be granted “special considerations” when Tehran determines the level and nature of service fees charged to ships using the Strait of Hormuz. Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said the critical waterway for energy supplies is now a matter of “national security” in the aftermath of the four-month U.S. and Israeli war on the Islamic ...

LAMPEDUSA, Italy – Pope Leo marked the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence on Saturday with an appeal to Americans to welcome and protect immigrants, in a letter sent to his home country as he visited Italy's migrant frontline island of Lampedusa. Leo, who drew the ire of Donald Trump last year after calling the U.S. president's hardline anti-immigration policies inhumane, also urged the world to become "more human" and to help ​those fleeing war and poverty.

ERFURT, Germany – Thousands protested against Germany's far-right AfD and blocked roads to its annual conference in the eastern city of Erfurt on Saturday, where the party re-elected the two leaders who have overseen its rise as a national force. Protesters from unions, civil society groups and left-wing parties gathered as large numbers of police, including reinforcements from across Germany, were deployed ahead ​of the AfD's two-day conference. AfD stands for Alternative for Germany.

DUBAI – Iran’s ruling clerics are preparing days of mass funeral rites for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a show of public devotion to the Islamic Republic and proof that its revolutionary fervor still burns strong.

Venezuela’s official earthquake death toll climbed to 2,645 on Friday as a new United Nations-backed assessment estimated the twin earthquakes caused at least $37 billion in direct physical damage, underscoring the enormous reconstruction challenge facing a country already weakened by years of economic decline and deteriorating infrastructure. The twin 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that ...