Andrei Lankov, a prominent Russian scholar on North Korea who teaches at a Seoul university, says he was expelled from Latvia after being detained during a lecture in the country’s capital. In a …
China has put 20 Japanese companies on an export control list and 20 others on a watchlist, as tensions continue over the Japanese leader’s previous comments on Taiwan, the self-governed island …
A Turkish Air Force F-16 has crashed near a highway in western Turkey, killing its pilot. Officials said Wednesday radio and radar control with the jet was lost shortly after midnight. The aircraft …
A doctors group says that Sudanese paramilitary forces have killed 28 people in an attack on a stronghold of a Darfur tribal leader. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Monday rampaged through …
Venezuela’s National Assembly says thousands of people have regained freedom under a new Amnesty Law. A special commission reported Tuesday that more than 3,200 people have been fully released …
A U.S. official focusing on arms control has provided what he called new, declassified details of a Chinese underground nuclear test nearly six years ago. Also Monday, the assistant secretary of …
French President Emmanuel Macron has accepted the resignation of the Louvre Museum’s director. She’d been under fire in the wake of a stunning and embarrassing heist of the French Crown jewels. …
Caribbean leaders are gathering in St. Kitts and Nevis. They're there to debate pressing issues including the region’s relationship with the United States as it continues to strike suspected drug …
Brazil’s Supreme Court has started the high-profile trial of the suspects allegedly behind the killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver in 2018. Franco defended the …
The U.K. Parliament is set to debate calls for greater accountability from a member of the royal family as the arrest of the former Prince Andrew and his links to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey …
More than a dozen senior European officials are visiting Kyiv in a show of support on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine. The war has killed tens of thousands of people …
The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem plans to offer consular services for the first time at an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank. The embassy said Wednesday on the social platform X that consular …
Norway's royal palace says King Harald has been admitted to a hospital in Spain’s Canary Islands during a winter vacation there. It said that Harald, who turned 89 on Saturday, was admitted to the …
Protesters have gathered on the Greek island of Crete following the arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier that is part of a major buildup of American forces in the Middle East. The USS Gerald R. Ford …
Severe floods in southeastern Brazil have killed at least 23 people in Minas Gerais and left dozens missing. Officials said torrential rain started Monday in the cities of Juiz de Fora and Uba, …
Shares are mixed in Asia after U.S. stocks slumped on heavy selling of shares in companies that could be losers in the artificial-intelligence boom. U.S. futures climbed. Markets in mainland China …
The arrests of the former Prince Andrew and Britain's former ambassador to the U.S. over their links to Jeffrey Epstein are shining a spotlight on an ancient offense known as misconduct in public …
The United Nations and Somalia's government has said that nearly 6.5 million people in Somalia are facing severe hunger. Worsening drought, conflict and global aid cuts have intensified the …
Willy Ngoma, a spokesperson for the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels fighting in eastern Congo, has been killed in a drone strike. A U.N. official and a rights group said Tuesday that Ngoma was killed near …
France’s spat with the U.S. ambassador to Paris has taken another turn with the French foreign minister now saying the top U.S. diplomat in France must explain himself after ignoring a French …