A South Korean court has delivered a lengthy prison sentence to a former prime minister over his role in the political turmoil triggered by ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol declaring martial law over a year...
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to five years in the first criminal case linked to his shock declaration of martial law. Many Koreans seem eager to put the crisis behind...
The Bavarian state is to give over €1 million to a man who spent 13 years in jail on murder charges that were overturned. Prosecutors had previously called for him to pay for board and lodgings in jai...
The gunman charged with killing Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe faces a verdict on Wednesday, more than three years after the daylight assassination stunned the country, prompting scrutiny of...
US military forces boarded and seized a seventh oil tanker linked to Venezuela, the US Southern Command said on Tuesday, as the administration of Donald Trump steps up efforts to curb Caracas’s oil ex...
Joshua Landis, the director of the University of Oklahoma's Centre for Middle East Studies, talks about how the Syrian military's advance across the country's north aims to end years of autonomy won b...
The gunman charged with killing Japan's former prime minister Shinzo Abe was found guilty January 21 and jailed for life. The shooting more than three years ago forced a reckoning in a country with li...
Ukrainian forces shoot down a Russian missile over Kyiv on Tuesday. Gleb Garanich/REUTERS Ukraine fired nearly $100 million worth of missiles in a single night defending against Russian strikes. The f...
Powell typically abstains from directly engaging with Trump's personal attacks. Al Drago/Getty Images The world's most senior bankers have rallied around embattled Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell....
US Vice President JD Vance is scheduled to meet Denmark’s foreign minister and Greenland’s counterpart in Washington this Wednesday to discuss the Arctic island, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark,...
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers working at the Social Security Administration (SSA) broke protocols, had more access to sensitive data on Americans than previously disclosed, and w...
Sen. Mark Kelly said his lawsuit is about fighting back on the Pentagon's crackdown on speech. Heather Diehl/Getty Images Senator Mark Kelly sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Pentagon's spe...
Teneo Vice Chairman & Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan speaks about the kind of populism seen in President Donald Trump's administration, his hopes the US Supreme Court will rule against some of ...
South Korean prosecutors called on Tuesday for the death penalty to be handed down to former president Yoon Suk Yeol for his December 2024 declaration of martial law, which plunged the country into ch...
NATO chief Mark Rutte said Wednesday "thoughtful diplomacy" was needed to deal with tensions over Greenland, as President Donald Trump headed to Davos pushing US claims on the territory. Rutte has sou...
Crypto majors are very green with Bitcoin making a new another 2-month high; BTC +2% at $96,7500; ETH +2% at $3,360, SOL even at $145; XRP -1% to $2.11. DCR (+30%), DASH (+10%), ICP (+10%) and ZEC (+7...
Australia’s former prime minister and a prominent China scholar, Kevin Rudd, will step down as ambassador to the United States a year ahead of schedule, a move some analysts say underscores a fundamen...
In 2025, India approved a number of major defence packages, together worth US$30 billion. Such rapid procurement approvals are relatively rare by Indian standards. However, what they signal to the reg...
The US initially planned its raid into Venezuela at a time when soldiers would be on leave, a newly released memo reveals. AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez US planning for the Maduro raid focused on a time...
Former Corsican nationalist leader Alain Orsoni, who also served as the president of soccer club AC Ajaccio, was shot dead in Corsica on January 11 during his mother’s funeral. He was 71. Alain Orsoni...