Election officials in the former Soviet republic of Georgia say the top two candidates in Sunday’s presidential elections garnered less than 50 percent of the vote, paving the way for a runoff.

The Latest on German political machinations (all times local):

The mother of a Gaza teen killed in an Israeli airstrike the previous day is denying that her son had any links to militants.

An official says the U.S. Navy will continue patrolling the disputed South China Sea after a Chinese destroyer came dangerously close to one of its ships during a 'freedom of navigation' sail-by near a contested reef.

Police in Barcelona say a massive crackdown on squatted apartments used for trafficking and consuming heroin and other drugs is underway in the city center.

Former President Jimmy Carter, a Georgia resident, wrote on his official letterhead to his state’s Republican nominee for governor, Brian Kemp, asking him to resign as Georgia secretary of state. The secretary of state oversees elections.

Way up in the reserve seating level at Dodger Stadium, thousands of Boston Red Sox fans screamed, hugged and danced with just as much fervor as the World Series-winning players on the field below.

The ultimate gatekeepers of U.S. election integrity may well be its weakest security link.

Former President Jimmy Carter is wading into the final days of a Georgia governor’s race rife with charges and countercharges of attempted voter fraud and attempted voter suppression.

Turkey’s state-run news agency says Saudi Arabia’s top prosecutor has arrived at the main courthouse in Istanbul for meetings about the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi.