Operation First Light 2026 froze more than 31,000 bank accounts and identified 142,000 victims worldwide, exposing romance scams, crypto laundering and a fake Brazilian police station built to fool marks.
Sentenced to death in absentia, the former prime minister told Reuters she and senior Awami League colleagues plan to come back from exile in India and face the courts. 'They may arrest me. They may even kill me,' she said.
Super Typhoon Bavi, more than 1,000 kilometers across, forced evacuations along Taiwan's mountainous east as China and Japan braced and rescuers in southern China still dug through the wreckage of a storm that killed 39.
A satellite analysis finds the Israeli military has expanded from roughly half the territory to almost 70% since the October truce, squeezing two million Palestinians into a shrinking western strip.
The International Energy Agency says the Iran war has destroyed demand faster than it has choked supply, cutting 2026 global oil consumption by roughly a million barrels a day and setting up a surplus in 2027.
Flammable materials and cluttered stairwells turned a midday blaze at a Jinjiang footwear plant into a deadly trap, and company officials have been detained.
Health officials call it the fastest-growing Ebola epidemic Africa has recorded, driven by a rare viral strain with no approved vaccine or cure.
Victims were found in burnt-out cars as they tried to outrun flames that swept through the Andalusian countryside during a punishing heatwave.
The Philippine vice president faces charges of misusing public funds and threatening to have President Marcos assassinated. She is the first VP in the country's history to stand trial.
Esperanza Ghandour was returning from checking repairs on her war-damaged home in Nabatieh when a drone struck her vehicle, in one of the deadliest attacks since the ceasefire took hold.
WatchBrent crude jumped more than 5% after Iranian forces hit a Qatari gas carrier and two other vessels in under 24 hours. Washington answered by revoking Tehran's license to sell oil.
Under heavy pressure from President Trump, alliance leaders unveiled more than $50 billion in new weapons purchases and reaffirmed a path toward 5% of GDP on defense by 2035.
The International Monetary Fund cut its outlook and lifted its inflation projection to 4.7%, blaming a 25% surge in energy prices since the war began even as it flagged an offsetting boost from artificial intelligence.
Kyiv's long-range drone campaign reached 'industrial scale,' striking oil tankers, the giant Omsk refinery and military airfields as fuel lines snaked outside Russian gas stations.
A Paris appeals court convicted the far-right leader of embezzlement and ordered her to wear an electronic monitor, but Le Pen says she'll appeal to France's highest court and 'campaign without an electronic bracelet.'
A deputy prosecutor describes a breakthrough in the Sudan investigation, citing witness accounts, forensic proof and video of executions and sexual violence.
Millions of mourners filled Tehran for the slain supreme leader, but the son widely seen as his heir has not appeared in public since the war that killed his father.
Meeting Zelensky at the NATO summit in Ankara, the president offered Kyiv the right to manufacture the prized air-defense missiles it has long begged for.
At the NATO summit, the president said Washington needs the Arctic island 'for the protection of the world' and suggested it isn't important to Denmark. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen shot back that Greenland 'is of course not for sale.'
The first expanded 48-team World Cup, co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico, reaches its final eight — beginning with a rematch of the 2022 semifinal between Kylian Mbappe's France and history-making Morocco.
The Bundibugyo strain has now killed more than 500 people across the Democratic Republic of Congo, and frontline responders — dozens of whom have caught the virus themselves — say they will strike over months of unpaid wages.
The Philippine vice president faces charges of graft, bribery and threatening to have President Marcos assassinated. A conviction would bar her from office for life — and end a dynasty's grip on the country's highest posts.
Standing alongside President Erdogan in Ankara, Trump declared it was 'time' to drop the 2020 penalties imposed over Turkey's purchase of Russian air defenses — and floated returning Ankara to the F-35 stealth-fighter program.
The alliance's Ankara summit produced a sweeping spending target, tens of billions for Ukraine and a sidelines meeting between Trump and Syria's new president — even as the Iran crisis loomed over the talks.
WatchA Paris appeals court upheld Marine Le Pen's embezzlement conviction and ordered a year of electronic monitoring, yet trimmed her ban from public office just enough to clear a path to the 2027 ballot.
The decision unwinds a decade of sanctions rooted in state-sponsored doping and the invasion of Ukraine, though Russia's flag, anthem and officials remain barred and individual sports federations get the final say.
Beijing's first publicly acknowledged strategic SLBM test into open ocean sent a training warhead more than 8,000 kilometers and drew sharp protests from Washington, Tokyo, Canberra and Wellington.
WatchThe president threatened to reimpose a naval blockade on Iran's ports as oil prices jumped roughly 8%, and Tehran warned it would shut the Strait of Hormuz and retaliate with twice as many targets.
WatchThe move clears the way for a U.S.-backed committee to run health, education and services across the enclave — though Hamas is not surrendering its weapons.
JNIM and Tuareg separatists launched coordinated assaults on at least seven towns, laying siege to a camp where Malian troops and Russia’s Africa Corps are pinned down.