Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s big election win paves the way for her ruling party to dominate the crucial lower house of parliament. It also gives her the political power to make a strong rightward shift in Japan’s security,

At least three people were killed in Russian overnight drone and missile strikes, the Interior Ministry in Kyiv reported on Monday.

A rubber boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea last week after taking on water, leaving 53 people migrating to Europe from North Africa presumed dead.

China critic and media mogul Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for national security offences, a penalty his son Sebastien called "heartbreaking." Lai was found guilty on charges of sedition and conspiracy to collude with foreign forces.

The strike in the eastern Pacific, the third on suspected drug trafficking boats this year, was the second authorized by Gen. Francis L. Donovan, the new head of the Southern Command.

Brenton Tarrant, the white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslims in New Zealand's deadliest mass shooting, wanted to be described as a terrorist and always intended to admit to his crimes, his

The deadliest fire in Hong Kong in decades last year (2025) left thousands of residents without some of their friends, family or the place they called home.

Detained Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has received another prison sentence of over seven years.