Worries about the war with Iran sent oil prices back to $100 per barrel and stocks sinking worldwide.

China has adopted a sweeping ethnic unity law that critics say tightens assimilation and weakens minority rights.

Outdated intelligence has likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings of a preliminary U.

Ecuador's interior minister says the country is preparing a major crackdown on criminal groups set to begin this weekend with logistical support from the United States.

South Africa says the new U.S. ambassador has been summoned to explain his criticism of the country’s policies.

Cambodia says it is close to shutting down all online scam centers operating in the Southeast Asian country.

Britain is ending the centuries-old tradition of hereditary aristocrats sitting in Parliament’s House of Lords.

South Africa has deployed troops to the streets of the country's biggest city to help police fight gang violence and illegal mining.

A series of explosions attributed to drones has killed at least one person as the attack rocked downtown Goma in eastern Congo.

Documents released by the British government show officials believed there was a “reputational risk” in appointing Peter Mandelson as the U.S. ambassador because of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Japan is marking the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its northeastern coast as the government pushes for atomic energy use.

A man who doused himself in a flammable substance and set his body on fire killing himself and five others aboard a bus in Switzerland had previously been reported missing by his family and didn't appear to have any terror-related motive.

Russia and Ukraine have made competing claims about who is gaining ground, as Russian strikes keep hitting Ukrainian cities and U.S.-backed talks in Turkey were postponed.

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan says it will not comply with a government order to shut down its base in Akobo, an opposition stronghold near the Ethiopian border where tens of thousands of refugees have fled.

Human Rights Watch says drones operated by Haitian security forces and private contractors have killed at least 1,243 people and injured 738 others.

Tomoko Kobayashi reopened her inn in northeastern Fukushima to bring a sense of normal life back to her deserted hometown five years after the nuclear disaster.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that Tuesday would be the most intense day yet of U.S. strikes inside Iran.

The U.S. says it took out more than a dozen mine-laying Iranian vessels, and the Islamic Republic vowed to block the region’s oil exports, saying it would not allow “even a single liter” to be shipped to its enemies.

Hungary is introducing a new cap on gasoline and diesel prices as global oil markets surge during the Iran war.

An Indonesian court has sentenced three Australian men for the fatal shooting of another Australian.

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is facing a major corruption trial that critics say targets Turkey’s opposition and threatens democracy.

The United States and Iran have offered sharply different accounts of the sinking of an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean.

U.S. President Donald Trump says the war against Iran could be short-lived.

U.S. President Donald Trump says that the war with Iran began because that country was starting work on a new site for developing material for nuclear weapons.