Mahmoud Abu Foul says he was detained by the Israeli military in late December last year, only to be released days ago after losing his eyesight from alleged torture and abuse he endured in his more than nine months in detention.

Thailand's Queen Mother Sirikit, who brought glamour and elegance to a postwar revival in the country's monarchy and who, in later years, would occasionally wade into politics, has died aged 93, the Thai Royal Household bureau said on Saturday.

The U.S. military has conducted its 10th deadly strike on a suspected drug-running boat, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday, blaming the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang for operating the vessel.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to walk an international tightrope over the next week as he departs Friday for a set of Indo-Pacific Summit meetings, one of which involves both the United States and China.

How does a former French president end up behind bars in the isolation wing of a Paris prison? Andrew Chang explains the key charge against Nicolas Sarkozy that led to a criminal conspiracy conviction by breaking down his relationship to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, and why despite the guilty verdict he's currently presumed innocent.

Britain's King Charles and Pope Leo XIV prayed together in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on Thursday, in the first joint worship including an English monarch and a Catholic pontiff since King Henry VIII broke away from Rome in 1534.

The U.S. military on Wednesday launched its ninth strike against an alleged drug-carrying vessel, killing three people in the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on social mediaWednesday.

A former British paratrooper who was the only soldier ever charged in the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland was acquitted Thursday of murder charges.

Tropical Storm Melissa lumbered through the Caribbean Sea on Thursday, bringing a risk of dangerous landslides and life-threatening flooding to Jamaica and southern Hispaniola an island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

A seniorCanadian government official told reporters Thursday that it's hoped Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a summit in South Korea next week.

Air traffic control staffing issues are delaying travel at airports in New York, Washington, Newark and Houston, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said late on Thursday, as a U.S. government shutdown hit its 23rd day.

In Singapore, protesting without permission from police is illegal, but that didnt stop three women from organizing a watermelon umbrella march in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Andrew Chang explains the charges against the organizers by breaking down Singapores strict rules on public assembly and why these three women were ultimately acquitted. ...