Top court sentences Alejandro Gil in the highest profile case against an ex-official in Cuba in decades.

Chinese exports are flooding the developing world, and the social consequences are bound to be profound.

The arrest warrant for the country’s former president comes amid a closely-fought election.

Trump says chipmaker will be allowed to export to ‘approved customers’, in shift away from Washington’s export controls.

The country’s attorney general said he had issued an international arrest warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández.

The Trump administration has accused ICEBlock of making federal agents vulnerable to attack and called for its removal.

As Gao Zhen awaits trial in China, his wife and child live in limbo, unable to return to America, sustained by the portraits he fashions from scraps of paper.

A traditional Japanese festival is being adapted for poodles and Pomeranians, amid a booming pet industry and a dearth of children.

The abduction of over 260 children from a Catholic school last month was the latest in a recent spate of kidnappings in the country.

One hundred children who had been kidnapped from a Catholic school in northwestern Nigeria last month were released on Sunday. This is part of a larger trend of kidnappings in Nigeria, where victims are released in exchange for ransom.

Central American nation on edge after voting plagued by fraud claims and a recent history of contested elections.

Russell Bonner Bentley III, 64, who was living in the occupied Donbas region of Ukraine, was beaten and tortured to death after he was suspected of being an American saboteur, investigators said.

Municipal officials say the action was about unpaid taxes. The U.N. relief agency for Palestinians says it is exempt from taxes and should be immune from such a raid, calling it illegal.

The statue and a marble head of a Greek orator seized from the Met Museum were among dozens of items found to have been looted that were handed over to Turkey at a ceremony in Manhattan.

American officials pleaded with Mexico to expel two dozen Russian spies posing as diplomats operating in Mexico. Their concerns were dismissed.

View the location of the quake’s epicenter, aftershocks and shake area.

The earthquake struck off the coast of Aomori Prefecture, on Japan’s main island, Honshu.

Donald Trump vows to unleash AI competitiveness, but removing state oversight riles members of his Republican Party.

Ukraine’s president traveled to London to discuss with the leaders of Britain, France and Germany ways of ending the conflict against Russia.

The moment a deadly fire broke out at a nightclub in Goa, India, was caught on camera.

The UN and partners are seeking $23 billion to provide lifesaving support next year to 87 million people worldwide affected by war, climate disasters, earthquakes, epidemics and crop failures. Read the full story, “Humanitarians launch $33 billion appeal for 2026”, on globalissues.org →

Former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf said that Israel is carrying out what he calls a “scholasticide” in Gaza.