Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting via video link on improving information security at a residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday. Reuters-Yonhap VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone on Friday, calling for a ceasefire in a Russian-occupied city in southern Ukraine, as he recovers in hospital from…

South Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Cha Ji-hoon speaks during a parliamentary audit at the country’s U.N. mission in New York, Thursday. Yonhap WASHINGTON — South Korea has condemned recent deadly attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeting civilian infrastructure and threatening commercial shipping in the Red Sea, calling on the U.N. Security Council to…

U.S. Coast Guard personnel keep watch over the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas, Oct. 8. AP-Yonhap LOS ANGELES — At least 16 people seen floating in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico’s Baja California coast were rescued in the predawn hours Friday and authorities were searching for several others, a U.S. Coast Guard official said. Petty…