Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is negotiating a plea deal in his corruption case

A protest march by 1,500 far-left activists in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki has turned violent

State authorities say the leader of a crime gang notorious for siphoning gasoline from government fuel pipelines has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for…

New South Wales state prohibited singing and dancing at music festivals and nightclubs amid a major surge in coronavirus infections, but religious events are exempt from…

Lawyers for Prince Andrew and his accuser Virginia Giuffre have filed their initial requests for witnesses in her lawsuit accusing the British royal of sexually abusing…

Italy’s supreme court has faulted Italian prosecutors for withholding evidence benefiting the key suspect in the Vatican’s fraud and embezzlement trial in a parallel case in…

Legal experts say he’ll settle out of court. Courtiers say there is no way back for him.

Homesick? Lonely? Spy? Investigators, fellow defectors and lawmakers grapple with why the defector raced back over the DMZ on New Year’s Day.

Russia is demanding that NATO halt military aid to Ukraine. The Western alliance says Moscow can never dictate its policies.

Kosovo police have stopped at the country’s border documentation needed to allow the ethnic Serb minority to take part in a referendum

The mayor’s office violated the General Data Protection Regulation 225 times, the national data protection commission ruled.

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano spewed ash, steam and gas up to 20 km (12 miles) into the air late on Friday.

Russia’s defense ministry says the troops that were deployed to Kazakhstan as violent demonstrations shook the country have returned home

Greece’s dominant Aegean Airlines says it has suspended its flights to and from Lebanon’s capital pending an investigation into the causes of damage to the fuselage…

A top Australian official said that the continued presence of Djokovic, who is unvaccinated and has expressed opposition to coronavirus vaccines, could exacerbate anti-vaccine sentiments and…

At least 4,000 people have died since fighting erupted between the separatists and government forces in 2017. Nearly a million have lost their homes.

Egyptian authorities say they arrested a prominent member of a U.S.-designated terrorist group

Some 600 migrants hoping to reach the United States have set off in a caravan from northern Honduras

Iranian state television says three Iranian citizens have died after they were infected with omicron, the new, more easily spread variant of the coronavirus

The Pacific nation of Tonga has issued a tsunami warning after an undersea volcano erupted

The mass protests in Kazakhstan that began over New Year’s weekend because of high fuel prices were peaceful at first, but then something changed

The Taliban are promising to try to open all schools for girls across Afghanistan after the Afghan New Year, which starts in late March

Haiti’s National Police says a former senator sought in the killing of President Jovenel Moïse has been arrested in Jamaica

Russia and NATO remain far apart with Ukraine in the middle.

Tokyo police say that three people, including two students on their way to university entrance exams, have been stabbed near a test venue, and authorities arrested…

Pakistan’s military says militants attacked an army post in a former militant stronghold in the country’s northwest, bordering Afghanistan, triggering a shootout that killed a soldier

Chen was accused of fraud under the controversial China Initiative, which the Justice Dept. is reviewing.

North Korea has claimed advanced in “hypersonic” missile technology that is also being developed by the United States, China and Russia.

In a rare moment of U.S.-Russia cooperation on ransomware, Russia shuts down REvil ransomware gang, seizing cash, bitcoin, computers and luxury cars

Pope Francis has long lamented that he can’t walk around town unnoticed like he used to before becoming pope

Romanian authorities say children aged between 5-11 will be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 starting late January, as the country grapples with a virus surge…

One of the defining images of Prince Philip’s funeral was that of Queen Elizabeth II sitting alone in a pew, abiding by the strict covid restrictions…

The Russian government has decided to delay a controversial bill requiring QR codes confirming vaccination or recovery from COVID-19 to access public places, despite surging cases…

Experts fear that despite generic versions of the drug already available, pills produced by Pfizer and Merck could end up largely bought up by rich countries.

Mexico is already seeing black-market or fake versions of molnupiravir circulating for sale, just one week after authorities approved the drug to treat those at risk…

An Iranian author whose bestselling comic novel, “My Uncle Napoleon,” lampooned Persian culture’s self-aggrandizing and paranoid behavior as the country entered the modern era, has died

A former Mexican state prosecutor was so corrupt that even the crooks who paid him off couldn’t trust him

South Korean rescuers have pulled a body from a heap of rubble at the construction site of a 39-floor building that partially collapsed four days earlier…

China says it gained support on issues including the treatment of Uyghur Muslims from a number of Persian Gulf states following talks between their foreign ministers…

The results of the Scottish study bolster calls to vaccinate more pregnant people to protect both parents and babies during the pandemic, experts say.

The government of Ethiopia has sent a letter to the World Health Organization accusing its Ethiopian director-general of “misconduct” after his sharp criticism of the war…

With Russian troops massed on the border, there are fears the cyber attacks could be some kind of pressure tactic against Kyiv.

Taiwan has commissioned new navy minelayers to add to its defenses against giant rival China

A powerful earthquake has shaken parts of Indonesia’s main island of Java, causing buildings in the capital to sway, but there are no immediate reports of…

Turkish and Armenian envoys are in Moscow to try to end decades of bitterness between their two countries and to establish diplomatic ties

Russia has strongly repeated its demand that NATO will not expand eastward, despite the rejection of that by the military alliance amid a Russian troop buildup…

Israel’s Health Ministry says more than 500,000 people have received a 4th vaccine dose

Sweden is seeing increased Russian activity in the Baltic Sea, saying there are “elements that deviate from the normal picture” and is increasing the country’s military…

Ukrainian officials and media reports say a number of government websites in Ukraine are down after a massive hacking attack

The U.N. Security Council is condemning the seizure of a United Arab Emirates ship and demanding that Yemen’s Houthi rebels immediately release the vessel and its…

A spokesman for Britain’s Defense Ministry says the U.K. will build a new communications facility on one of two bases it maintains on the eastern Mediterranean…

Thousands of Indian men are lured to Iran each year and made to work in miserable conditions, say seafarers and maritime analysts.

Conservationists and veterinarians are warning that plastic waste in an open landfill in eastern Sri Lanka is killing elephants, after two more were found dead over…