The Black Sea country is holding its eighth election in five years, with Bulgarians yearning for the kind of prosperous life enjoyed by other Europeans.

The leader of the Iran-backed militia said that a more durable peace with Israel would require the fulfillment of a list of long-standing demands.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they were closing the Strait of Hormuz until the U.S. blockade was lifted. Two Indian-flagged ships reported being hit as they tried to cross the passage.

Pope Leo XIV said that news outlets misinterpreted his recent remarks as criticism of President Trump. The pontiff has called for an end to the violence in the Middle East but told reporters on Saturday he had no interest in debating the president.

The delegation told Cuba’s leadership that it had only a narrow window of time to make the economic and political changes demanded by the Trump administration.

The attacker fatally shot four people on the street before barricading himself inside a nearby supermarket, a prosecutor said.

The day after Iran declared the vital waterway open, it reversed course, injecting new peril into navigation there.

The ship, the Mariana, was found overturned days after the Coast Guard lost contact with its crew, after a super typhoon struck.

Pope Leo responded directly on Monday to a presidential attack. But since then, he said, some of his statements during his Africa trip have been misconstrued.

The truce appeared to mostly hold even as Israel said it had carried out strikes on what it called “terrorists” approaching its forces in southern Lebanon. Separately, a U.N. peacekeeper was killed.