The U.S. on Thursday announced the resumption of dialogue with Russia's military, which had been suspended since 2021.

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy former media tycoon Jimmy Lai will be sentenced Monday following his conviction in December under a Beijing-imposed national security law

Boko Haram Islamist militants killed 75 in attacks on two villages in the Nigerian state of Kwara on Tuesday after locals rejected calls to surrender.

The poll showed that the LDP-led coalition was likely to secure more than 300 of the 465 seats in the Lower House.

A deputy chief of Russian military intelligence was shot and wounded in Moscow on Friday, officials said. Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev was shot several time by an unidentified assailant, Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement.

The U.S. military said it killed two people in a strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Thursday.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has vowed to unleash a regional war if America launches air strikes. Initially few in the Middle East seemed eager for further conflict. The region’s power-brokers tried to dissuade America from military action.

Colombian media outlets reported that businessman Alex Saab, an alleged front man for former President Nicolás Maduro, was captured in Venezuela.