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Taiwan’s Commerce Ministry has added Chinese chipmakers Huawei Technologies and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp to its export control list, as trade and technology frictions between the self-ruled island, China and the United States increase.
Turkish media say a hot air balloon pilot has been killed and 19 Indonesian tourists were injured when their balloon crashed in central Turkey.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s first trip to Greenland is aimed at shoring up Europe’s political backing for Denmark and its semiautonomous territory.
Israel unleashed airstrikes across Iran for a third day and threatened even greater force as some Iranian missiles evaded Israeli air defenses to strike buildings in the heart of the country.
Guinea’s military junta has created a new institution that will be responsible for managing elections, including a constitutional referendum in September and the general and presidential elections set for December.
A helicopter carrying Hindu pilgrims has crashed in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, killing seven people on board.
A growing number of Spaniards are souring on the country's highly successful tourism industry which is being blamed for a stubborn housing crisis.
Russia has maintained a delicate balancing act in the Middle East for decades, trying to navigate its warm relations with Israel even as it has developed strong economic and military ties with Iran.
Leaders of some of the world’s biggest economic powers will arrive in the Canadian Rockies on Sunday for a Group of Seven summit shadowed by a widening war in the Middle East, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s unresolved trade war with allies and rivals alike.
A palpable tension settled over an eerily quiet Tel Aviv as residents anticipated another round of missiles to be fired from Iran, which is under intense attack from the Israeli military.
The British government has announced it will hold a national inquiry into organized child sexual abuse, something it has long been pressured to do by opposition politicians — and Elon Musk.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump have held a 50-minute phone call to discuss the escalating situation in the Middle East and Ukraine peace talks.
A massive military parade has been held to celebrate the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary, requested by President Donald Trump to coincide with his birthday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says rising global oil prices following Israeli strikes on Iran will strengthen Russia by increasing its oil revenues, aiding its war effort in Ukraine.
Former England soccer captain David Beckham, Academy Award winner Gary Oldman and The Who’s frontman Roger Daltrey have been knighted in King Charles III’s birthday honors list.
Anger is mixed with worry as Iranians in the capital of Tehran woke up Saturday to images of their country’s retaliatory attacks on Israel.
Palestinian health officials say at least 20 people were killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight and into Saturday.
Iran has launched a second round of missiles against Israel as Israel’s military kept up attacks on Iran following earlier strikes that targeted nuclear and military sites.
Israel launched an expanded assault on Iran on Sunday while Tehran unleashed a fresh barrage of missiles.
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez have invited celebrity friends like fellow space traveler Katy Perry, Oprah Winfrey, Mick Jagger and Ivanka Trump for their Venice nuptials later this month, but the couple hopes to put a spotlight on Venice’s own traditions during the celebrations.
Israel’s sweeping attack across Iran struck at the heart of Tehran’s nuclear program, delivering a blow to the country’s ability to enrich uranium and potentially setting its nuclear ambitions back by months or years.
News of the sole survivor of an Air India plane crash that killed the other 241 people aboard has led to endless fascination online.
Israel's multilayered air-defense system is credited with protecting the country from serious damage or casualties from past Iranian attacks.
French President Emmanuel Macron says a top-level U.N. conference on a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians scheduled for next week has been postponed.
Ukrainian officials say Ukraine has repatriated another 1,200 bodies in line with an agreement reached during peace talks in Istanbul between Russian and Ukrainian delegations.
An unusual request from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights about Cuban medical brigades is roiling countries in the Caribbean and the Americas.
Two men who stole a $6.4 million golden toilet from an English mansion have been sentenced to more than two years in prison.
Greek authorities have detained an American man on the island of Skiathos who is suspected of killing an infant whose remains were found over the weekend in a Rome park.
Rallies against President Donald Trump are expected across the U.S. on Saturday to coincide with the military parade in Washington marking the Army’s 250th anniversary, which also falls on Trump’s birthday.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has visited the sites of devastating floods that have left at least 78 people dead in the southeast of the country.
Israel’s massive strike on Iran on Friday morning came after decades of mutual hostility and a long-running shadow war of covert strikes and sabotage.
The Air India plane crash this week was one of India’s worst aviation disasters, killing 241 people on board and several people on the ground.
Indian investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder or the black box of the Air India flight that crashed a day earlier.
Iranian state television has confirmed that Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, was killed in Israel’s strikes Friday morning.
President Donald Trump is urging Iran to make a nuclear deal now that Israel has launched strikes against the country.
Oil prices leaped, and stocks slumped on worries that escalating violence following Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear and military targets could damage the flow of crude around the world, along with the global economy.
Meta is making a $14.3 billion investment in artificial intelligence company Scale and recruiting its CEO Alexandr Wang to join a team developing “superintelligence” at the tech giant.
Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. says Israel’s ongoing attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, top generals and scientists killed 78 people and wounded more that 320.
Israel has launched blistering attacks on the heart of Iran’s nuclear and military structure, deploying warplanes and drones previously smuggled into the country to assault key facilities and kill top generals and scientists — a barrage it said was necessary before its adversary got any closer to building an atomic weapon.
The owner of an iconic nightclub in the Domincan Republic whose roof collapsed in April and killed 236 people has been arrested along with his sister.
North Korea says it has repaired a damaged destroyer and launched the ship in the presence of leader Kim Jong Un.
The Department of Homeland Security is notifying hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that their temporary permission to live and work in the United States has been revoked and they should leave the country.
The deadly crash of an Air India flight carrying more than 240 people on Thursday arrives after years of efforts to turn around the country’s flag carrier — which had been plagued by tragedy and financial losses under prior state ownership.
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has denied plans to foist a one-party state on Africa's largest democracy.
A medic says the lone passenger to survive the Air India crash that killed more than 240 people found himself near debris after being thrown out of the plane and walked to a nearby ambulance for aid.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has asked for forgiveness after a close confidante in his Socialist Party has been put under investigation for his alleged participation in a kickback scheme.
When a 21-year-old former student opened fire inside his school in Austria’s second-biggest city earlier this week, killing 10 people, it didn’t take long for the Alpine country’s press council to call on journalists to show restraint when reporting about the victims and their families.
The CIA has released 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F.
Thousands and thousands of Pitbull fans dressed up for his London shows this week wearing bald caps, a white shirt, black tie and drawn-on facial hair, before swarming to the city’s O2 Arena.
Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity.
California U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla was forcibly removed after he interrupted a Los Angeles press conference on immigration by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Egypt has blocked activists taking part in a planned march to Gaza, halting their attempt to reach the border and challenge Israel’s blockade on humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory before it could begin.
Officials say the former student who killed nine students and a teacher at a school in Austria and then took his own life planned the attack in detail.
Judges at the European Court of Human Rights have ruled that Italy can't be held liable for the actions of the Libyan Coast Guard.
Ukraine says Russia’s military losses have topped 1 million, noting the huge price Moscow has paid for its 3-year-old invasion.
Australia’s defense minister has dismissed concerns that a deal between the U.S., Australia and Britain to provide his country with nuclear-powered submarines could be in jeopardy, following a report that the Pentagon had ordered a review.
Iran says it has built and will activate a third nuclear enrichment facility, ratcheting up tensions with the U.N. immediately after its atomic watchdog censured Iran for failing to comply with obligations meant to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon.
Gaza's Hamas-run police force said it killed 12 members of an Israeli-backed militia after detaining them early Thursday.
A government minister says the death toll in floods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province has risen to 78.
The U.N. refugee agency says the number of people forcible displaced by violence and persecution around the world has risen to more than 122 million, up by about 2 million from last year and a near-doubling over the last decade.
Oman’s foreign minister says there will be a sixth round of negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program this weekend.
A Pakistani crackdown on Afghans has seen some families handed deadlines of hours, or just minutes, to collect whatever they can and leave forever.
U.N. member nations have voted overwhelmingly to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages held by Hamas, and unrestricted access for the delivery of desperately needed food.
El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is intensifying his crackdown on dissent, a move observers suggest has been emboldened by his alliance with U.S. President Donald Trump.
The majority of justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court have agreed to make social media companies liable for illegal postings by their users, in a landmark case for Latin America with implications for U.S. relations.
Veteran rock star Bruce Springsteen, a high-profile celebrity critic of President Donald Trump, slammed the U.S. administration as “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” during a concert Wednesday in Berlin.
A string of recent cyberattacks and data breaches involving the systems of major retailers have started affecting shoppers.
The United States is drawing down the presence of staffers who are not deemed essential to operations in the Middle East and their loved ones due to the potential for regional unrest.
A salvage company plans to lift the luxury yacht Bayesian in late June from the Sicilian seabed where it sank last summer, killing seven people.
Disney and Universal sued popular artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney on Wednesday, marking the first time major Hollywood companies have taken legal action against a maker of generative AI technology that could upend the entertainment industry.
Officials say at least 49 people have died in flooding in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province.
Japan this week confirmed that two Chinese aircraft carriers have operated together for the first time in the Pacific.
The heir to the Dutch throne Princess Amalia is recovering at a hospital after undergoing surgery to one of her arms that she broke a day earlier in a fall from her horse.
