Cambodia’s powerful former leader Hun Sen and Thailand’s prime minister have made separate visits to border areas
The families of hostages held in Gaza have faced a 20-month-long nightmare
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has formally approved plans to establish a new international court to prosecute senior Russian officials for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Officials in Myanmar have destroyed nearly $300 million worth of illegal drugs to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon imprisoned in the country’s largest financial fraud case
Greenland is covered in ice and snow, and its locals retreat indoors for most of the year
North Korea will open a tourist site on its east coast next week that it calls a prelude to a new era in its tourism industry, though there is no word on when the country will fully reopen to foreign visitors
Israel and Iran seemed to honor the fragile ceasefire between them for a second day, and U.S. President Donald Trump asserted that American and Iranian officials will talk next week, giving rise to cautious hope for longer-term peace
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has signed a controversial labor reform into law, delivering a significant increase in worker protections
Sydney’s harbor becomes a humpback highway in winter as the whales migrate from feeding grounds in Antarctica to breeding areas off Australia’s coast
Authorities in Ecuador have recaptured fugitive drug trafficker José Adolfo Macías, also known as “Fito,” more than a year after his prison escape
European Union leaders are meeting in Brussels to address key global and regional issues
The bombing has quieted in Iran’s 12-day conflict with Israel, but the battle over the future of Tehran is likely to soon begin
A former Venezuelan spymaster who was close to the country’s late President Hugo Chávez has pleaded guilty to narco-terrorist charges
A new chapter in U.S.-Iran relations is about to be written, whether for the better or the even worse
After months of job cuts, leadership turnover and other turmoil at the Social Security Administration, the agency’s newly minted commissioner faced pointed questions from lawmakers about the future of the agency and its ability to pay Americans their benefits and protect their privacy
President Donald Trump is harshly criticizing CNN and The New York Times for reporting on an initial defense assessment of the U.S. bombing of Iran nuclear sites
NATO’s summit in the Netherlands has been described as “transformational” and “historic.”
Former Arizona newscaster Kari Lake, picked by President Donald Trump to manage Voice of America and the agency overseeing it, told a congressional committee that they were rotten to the core and should be scrapped
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