Two probes have been launched into Tuesday’s deadly plane crash where five people died after a passenger jet collided with a Coast Guard turboprop at a Tokyo airport.
U.S. intelligence maintains that the al-Shifa Hospital was a legitimate target for Israel in Gaza, confirming reports that it was a Hamas command post.
An Iraqi security agency said it shot down an armed drone near the Erbil airport, where U.S. forces are stationed. The foiled attack is the latest on U.S. forces in the Middle East.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces used hypersonic Kinzhal missiles among various others to strike Ukraine's two biggest cities.
The U.S. and U.K. have urged Iran to end its support for the Houthis as the attacks in the Red Sea force shipping vessels to take alternative routes at great cost and delay.
South Africa has brought a case against Israel before the UN, charging that its military campaign in the Gaza Strip is genocidal, setting up a legal shodwon in the Great Hall of Justice.
Temperatures as low as minus 40 Fahrenheit were reported in parts of Sweden and Finland on Tuesday as the Arctic North grapples with an intense cold spell.
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Tuesday rejected an agreement that would have granted landlocked Ethiopia access to the coast of breakaway Somaliland.
Israel Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says Hamas still has several thousand fighters left in Gaza, but the terrorist group’s capabilities are diminished.
The Dancing Bears Festival in Comanesti, a small town in northeast Romania, attracts visitors from around the world. The annual event is rooted in a centuries-old tradition.
Zvi Zamir, the former head of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, has died at 98. Zamir led Mossad from 1968 to 1974 and warned the government about an imminent attack.
Deputy Hamas leader Saleh Arouri was reportedly killed in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh after an Israeli drone struck a Hamas office, according to Hezbollah-aligned news outlets.
Refugees in Sri Lanka protested outside the U.N. refugee agency's office, expressing concerns about losing their living allowance when the office closes at the end of the year.
The parents of abducted British toddler Madeleine McCann released a new statement on New Year's Day, expressing hope that the investigation "will eventually yield results."
The Chinese Communist Party is urging the Taiwanese public to vote "on the right side of history" in its presidential election, hoping to negotiate the reintegration of the island.
Basdeo Panday, the first person of Indian descent to serve as the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, has passed away at the age of 90. He served two terms from 1995 to 2001.
Santiago Sánchez Cogedor, a Spanish man who spent 15 months in an Iranian prison after visiting the tomb of Mahsa Amini, has returned to his home in Madrid.