WatchA Manhattan federal judge scheduled the ousted Venezuelan president and his wife to stand trial on U.S. narco-terrorism charges beginning June 1, 2027, as Maduro's lawyers vowed to fight the case on sovereign-immunity grounds.
Incumbent Carlos Vila Nova took nearly 56 percent of the vote in the tiny West African island nation, clearing the threshold needed to win outright and denying challenger Nito d’Abreu a second round.
Months of demonstrations in Malé have intensified as the opposition unites behind press-freedom demands and accuses President Mohamed Muizzu’s government of jailing critics and muzzling journalists.
A blaze in southwestern France claimed two firefighters’ lives while a fire in Spain’s Guadalajara province burned uncontrolled for a sixth day, forcing more than 1,200 people from their homes as extreme heat gripped the continent.
WatchPresident Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed his top general and named Mykhailo Drapatyi as Ukraine's new commander-in-chief, bowing to street demonstrations that had convulsed the capital for days.
A new United Nations report finds 309 million people in Africa went hungry last year even as global hunger eased for a third straight year, blaming conflict and climate shocks.
The U.N. refugee agency says a vessel that left Gambia bound for Spain's Canary Islands ran out of fuel and was stranded at sea for more than three weeks on one of the world's deadliest routes.
The Nikkei 225 sank more than 4% and briefly fell over 6%, dragged down by memory-chip maker Kioxia, as investors around the world questioned whether the AI boom's sky-high valuations can hold.
The former Greater Manchester mayor known as the 'King of the North' was appointed by King Charles III after Keir Starmer's resignation, pledging to be a 'circuit-breaker' for a nation exhausted by political turmoil.
A rain-triggered landslide in Chongqing's Pengshui County flattened more than 10 buildings, killing at least eight people as crews with excavators, dogs and detectors raced against the threat of a second collapse.
Ismael Zambada Garcia, 76, who led the Sinaloa Cartel for decades while evading capture, apologized in a Brooklyn courtroom: 'No one wins in a war like this.'
The Sandinista leader, who governs alongside his wife and co-president, vowed a 'wall' of laws to bar opponents he branded traitors and 'coup plotters.'
Three cruise missiles hit the Guinea-Bissau-flagged MV Golden Leo as it departed Odesa carrying corn, killing at least 10 people, including four Indian nationals, Ukrainian and Indian officials said.
Joseph Aoun met Trump at the White House to press for a full Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon as a U.S.-brokered framework to disarm Hezbollah entered its first 'pilot zone.'
Havana freed the co-creator of the protest anthem "Patria y Vida" on the condition that he leave the island; a flag-waving crowd met him at the airport.
The Iran-aligned group said it would bar Saudi ships from the Bab el-Mandeb Strait "an eye for an eye," opening a dangerous new front in the U.S.-Iran war and widening the threat to global energy supplies.
WatchOvernight strikes ignited an oil depot and battered sprawling logistics hubs south of the capital, wounding at least 10 people as President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to keep hammering Russia's war economy.
Al-Hayya, who survived an Israeli strike in Qatar that killed his son, defeated the veteran Khaled Meshaal in an internal run-off to succeed the slain Yahya Sinwar.
Vladimir Putin thanked Pyongyang for backing his war in Ukraine as Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui met Sergey Lavrov, a visit with no obvious occasion that has stirred summit speculation.
Ferran Torres struck early in the second period of extra time and Spain's record-setting defense held firm against 10-man Argentina to claim the 2026 title at MetLife Stadium.
WatchOpening Shanghai's World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Xi called for a “symphony of global cooperation” and unveiled a new China-headquartered organization to write the rules of AI — a direct challenge to Washington.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House adviser Stephen Miller urged diplomats to help build a global counterterrorism push against the left, and Rubio announced new visa restrictions — as some allies quietly recoiled.
Judges confirmed charges against Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, tied to torture, rape and murder at Mitiga prison — the court's first case to reach trial after 15 years of investigating atrocities in Libya.
American forces hit at least six bridges in Hormozgan province, appearing to cut the Strait of Hormuz port city of Bandar Abbas off from the roads to Tehran, as Iran fired back at U.S. positions across the Gulf.
U.N. agencies say two overcrowded vessels that set out from Myanmar's Rakhine state in late June are believed to have sunk, in what could be one of the deadliest maritime disasters of the refugee crisis.
The dismissal of 35-year-old Mykhailo Fedorov, an architect of Ukraine's battlefield drone program, drew crowds into the streets of several cities in a startling show of public anger.
Investigators are examining flammable soundproofing foam and blocked exits after a late-night blaze tore through a packed live-music venue in the Thai capital.
Officers targeted Have A Nice Stay and Greenfield Book Store, accusing five people aged 30 to 59 of displaying and selling material with 'seditious intent' — the third such round of arrests in four months.
A ransomware group called World Leaks posted blueprints and internal records tied to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant after a breach at a Reliance Group contractor, prompting a national security investigation.
After two days of U.S.-brokered talks in Rome, the sides agreed on how Israeli forces will withdraw and the Lebanese army will move in — a first test of a fragile new order.