Iran has disconnected its internet and phone lines to cut off its 85 million people from the rest of the world.

A Ukrainian drone strike has sparked a fire at an oil depot in Russia's Volgograd region.

Masked men armed with sticks have attacked a Palestinian man in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Hollywood couple Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors have received Guinean citizenship after tracing their ancestry to the West African country.

Greenland’s party leaders have rejected President Donald Trump’s calls for the U.S. to take control of the island.

Protests in Iran have continued for two weeks, with the government acknowledging the unrest despite a harsh crackdown.

A Philippine official says rescuers have detected signs of life in an avalanche of garbage that killed at least four workers and left more than 30 others missing.

Minnesota leaders are urging protesters to remain peaceful as thousands of people converged on a Minneapolis park to decry the fatal shooting of a woman in that city.

A federal judge is expected to temporarily block efforts by the Trump administration to end a program that offered legal protections for more than 10,000 relatives of citizens and green card holders.

The United States and Venezuela are exploring the possibility of restoring diplomatic relations.

Environmental experts warn that U.S. plans under President Donald Trump to restart and control Venezuelan oil exports could intensify pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and ecological damage in a country already burdened by decades of oil-related degradation.

Nearly 50 years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution overthrew his father, exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has spurred demonstrators onto the streets in a massive escalation of the protests sweeping Iran.

The U.S. military says U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration continues to target sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela.

President Donald Trump says American intervention in Venezuela will bring billions of dollars of investment in the country's infrastructure, a revival of its once-thriving oil industry and a new age of prosperity for the Latin American country.

Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships have launched a week of naval drills with host South African off the coast of Cape Town as geopolitical tensions run high over the United States’ intervention in Venezuela.

Russia has used its latest missile against Ukraine for a second time in the nearly 4-year-old war, a forceful signal to Kyiv and its Western allies as peace talks are in a crucial stage.

The United States will be providing significant aid to Thailand and Cambodia to ensure regional stability in the wake of the two nations fighting last year.

Pope Leo XIV has denounced how nations are increasingly using force to assert their dominion worldwide.

David Bowie’s childhood home could soon become a tourist attraction.

Yemen's main separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council, is set to dismantle its institutions effective Friday.

Thousands of homes and businesses across northern France and southern England are without power and residents faced widespread travel delays after a storm swept in off the Atlantic.

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Somalia’s capital to protest Israel’s recognition of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland.

Switzerland is holding a national day of mourning for the 40 people who died in an Alpine bar fire during a New Year’s Eve celebration.

A week in which longtime tensions between neighbors China and Japan ratcheted up economically and politically is drawing to a close with no sign of improvements.

Health officials say at least 13 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza as U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce his Board of Peace to oversee the fragile ceasefire.

Demonstrations broke out in Iran on Dec. 28 and have spread nationwide as protesters vent their increasing discontent over the Islamic Republic’s faltering economy and the collapse of its currency.

Nickolay Mladenov, the man chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza, is a Bulgarian politician and former U.N. envoy to the Middle East who frequently has worked to ease tensions between Israel and Hamas.

Syria's Defense Ministry has announced a ceasefire after three days of clashes in Aleppo between government forces and Kurdish fighters.

Protests in Iran have continued despite threats from the government to crack down.

K-pop is an inextricable force in global pop culture.

U.S. stocks rose to more records following a mixed report on the U.S. job market.

A massive crowd of mostly barefoot Filipino Catholics is joining an annual procession of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ in the Philippine capital, with some using the gathering to express outrage over a corruption scandal involving influential legislators.

Russia has launched a massive overnight attack on Ukraine, using hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles.

Venezuela’s sudden release of detainees brought relief and guarded optimism to a country consumed by uncertainty.

Officials in the Philippines say two people have been killed and 36 others are missing after an avalanche of garbage and debris buried or trapped workers at a landfill.

U.S. President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the United Nations climate framework marks a significant escalation of anti-climate policy.

Russia has strongly condemned the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker.

The top United Nations official says the United States has a “legal obligation” to keep paying its dues that fund U.N. agencies after the White House announced that it's withdrawing support from more than 30 initiatives operated by the world body.

Artificial intelligence took center stage at this year's CES gadget show, but not always for the right reasons.

Venezuela has released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists — both citizens and foreigners — nearly a week after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces to face drug-trafficking charges.

The U.S. has seized a Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the North Atlantic, backed by British support.

Somalia’s government is denying an allegation by the U.S. government that authorities in Mogadishu destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program.

France's president says a political scholar from the country who was serving a three-year sentence in Russia and facing new charges of espionage has been freed in a prisoner swap with France.

The Senate has advanced a resolution that would limit President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela.

More artificial intelligence is being implanted into Gmail as Google tries to turn the world’s most used email service into a personal assistant that can improve writing, summarize far-flung information buried in inboxes and deliver daily to-do lists.

Prosecutors in the United States say Chen Zhi boasted of pulling in $30 million a day.

Denmark and Greenland’s envoys to Washington have begun a vigorous effort to urge U.S. lawmakers as well as key Trump administration officials to step back from President Donald Trump’s call for a “takeover” of the strategic Arctic island.

Britain is bracing for potentially life-threatening winds, rains and snowfall as a severe storm headed in from the southwest of England during what already has been one of the country’s worst cold snaps in years.

Israel’s prime minister says a former U.N. Mideast envoy, Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov, has been chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace aimed at overseeing the peace process in Gaza.

Iran’s government has cut off the country from the internet and international telephone calls.

Syrian authorities have warned civilians to leave a contested area in Aleppo as clashes between government and Kurdish forces intensify.

Dozens of angry farmers have demonstrated in France and Greece, halting traffic and blocking roads with tractors to protest European Union plans to move forward with a free trade deal with five South American nations.

They’re at it again.

Lebanon's military says it has ended the first phase of its plan to deploy across southern Lebanon and disarm non-state groups, including Hezbollah.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a royal commission into antisemitism, weeks after a deadly attack at a Jewish holiday event in Bondi Beach.

Saudi Arabia says the United Arab Emirates has smuggled a wanted separatist leader out of Yemen.

Guides who take tourists to enjoy the striking views of Sicily’s Mount Etna are up in arms over tougher restrictions imposed by local authorities after a round of eruptions at the giant volcano in recent weeks.

Modest moves for Wall Street overall masked some big swings underneath the surface, including for makers of weapons and other military equipment.

Gadgets promoting a wide array of health benefits are on display at the annual CES trade show in Las Vegas.

President Donald Trump has abruptly changed his tone about his Colombian counterpart, Gustavo Petro.

The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.’s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations.

President Donald Trump is proposing setting U_S_ military spending at $1_5 trillion in 2027, citing “troubled and dangerous times.”.

The State Department says it has suspended all U.S. assistance to Somalia’s federal government over allegations that Somali officials destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program and seized 76 metric tons of food aid intended for impoverished civilians.

Venezuela's military has held a funeral for some of the soldiers killed during the U.S. operation that captured former President Nicolás Maduro.

Mexico has emerged as a key fuel supplier to Havana as the United States prepares to seize control of Venezuelan oil and the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump hardens its stance toward Cuba.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has temporarily left a prison in Brasilia for medical examinations after hitting his head.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s actions against Venezuela.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threats against Greenland pose a new and potentially unprecedented challenge to NATO, perhaps even an existential one.

The U.S. military operation in Venezuela can be seen as both a benefit and a burden for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

President Donald Trump's administration is seeking to assert its control over Venezuelan oil, seizing two sanctioned tankers transporting petroleum and announcing plans to relax some sanctions so the U.S. can oversee the sale of Venezuela’s petroleum worldwide.

Fighting has escalated in Syria's northern city of Aleppo.

Snow and ice are hampering travel in parts of Europe as flights have been grounded and roads clogged.

Iran’s army chief has threatened preemptive military action over the “rhetoric” targeting the Islamic Republic.

CES 2026 is featuring extensive programming related to Hollywood, influencers and how the industry will continue to work with AI.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm after a bus driver ran over and killed a teenage boy during a protest.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he plans to meet with Danish officials next week after the Trump administration reiterated its intention to take over the strategic Arctic island.

Opposition supporters have long hoped their leaders could replace Nicolás Maduro as Venezuela's president.

A separatist group in southern Yemen says it's urgently trying to contact a delegation that traveled to the Saudi capital for talks meant to de-escalate recent tensions.

As Iran is gripped by new protests, many people there are focused on the U.S. raid in Venezuela and wonder whether the same could occur in Tehran.

Brigitte Bardot's funeral was being held with a private service and a public homage in Saint-Tropez, the French Riviera resort where she lived after retiring from movie stardom.

Wall Street’s strong start to the year slowed.

Frustration and anger are brewing among young protesters in Nepal who helped topple the government.

Uganda is preparing for a election in an atmosphere of political violence.

A photo of 21-year-old Mariana Camargo dashing through the streets of eastern Caracas as explosions boomed in the background was soon on front pages of major international outlets.

CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia, has died in a Maryland prison.

Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela's interim president, has risen to prominence through strategic moves and political savvy.

Nicolás Maduro’s first court hearing — a heavily secured spectacle where he proclaimed he is still Venezuela’s president and pleaded “soy inocente” — was merely the beginning of a legal odyssey that could keep him locked up and out of power for years, maybe even the rest of his life.

The Cuban government has revealed the identities of 32 military personnel killed during the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

President Donald Trump says Venezuela will be providing 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S., and he pledges to use proceeds from the sale of this oil “to benefit the people” of both countries.

Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a controversial settlement project near Jerusalem that would effectively cut the West Bank in two.

President Donald Trump’s has made broad but vague assertions that the United States is going to “run” Venezuela after the ouster of Nicolás Maduro but has offered almost no details about how it will do so.

Celebrated Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, known for films like “Sátántangó” and “The Turin Horse,” has died at 70.

The deadliest clashes so far have erupted between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters in Aleppo.

Venezuela's military says the U.S. operation to capture Nicolás Maduro resulted in dozens of casualties.

The White House says the U.S. military is “always an option” for acquiring Greenland, despite European leaders rejecting President Donald Trump's comments about taking over the island.

Local authorities say fire safety inspections hadn’t been carried out since 2019 at the Swiss bar where a fire at a New Year’s party left 40 people dead and over 100 injured.

China has banned exports to Japan of dual-use goods for military purposes.

The capture of Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces has sparked global controversy.

Nvidia, AMD and Intel all had important chip and AI platform announcements on the first day of CES 2026, but all audiences wanted to see more of was Star Wars and Jensen Huang’s little robot buddies.

News organizations have gotten a rare “thank you” from the Trump administration for not putting its military action in Venezuela in jeopardy by reporting on it before it happened.