As Taiwan's president-elect William Lai prepares to take office later this month, China has increased tensions with the island by increasing its provocative moves.
In Japanese PM Fumio Kishida's first visit to Brazil, he met with the country's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the capital of Brasilia where Lula urged Kishida to buy his country's beef.
Following two days of heavy rains in Haiti, at least 13 people have died; Haiti’s Civil Protection Agency said a landslide caused the majority of the deaths.
8 soldiers were sentenced to death by a military court in eastern Congo for cowardice and other crimes related to fleeing the battlefield, as the government struggles to quell violence in the area.
Cyberwarriors are training for the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris and have turned to friendly hackers to examine their defenses; opponents could include Russian military hackers or ransomware gangs.
Canadian authorities have announced the arrest of three suspects in the murder of a Sikh separatist in Surrey which sparked a diplomatic row with India.
The U.S. Department of Justice has said that it intends to sue Iowa over a law that makes it a crime for a person to be in the state if they were previously denied admission to the U.S.
Recent protests in the central Asian nation of Georgia have centered on proposed legislation that critics argue would erode media freedom and hinder entrance to the EU.
Hundreds of people in Serbia lit candles and laid flowers to commemorate the victims of the country's first-ever school shooting last year in which nine children and a school guard were killed.
Mohammed Fattah Burhan Rahman, the son of Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah Burhan, has died at a hospital in Turkey's capital of Ankara after being severely injured in a motorcycle accident.
Colombia has ended diplomatic relations with Israel despite its military relying on Israeli equipment. It is unclear how the end of relations will affect trade between the countries.
China alleges that in 2016, the Philippines entered into an unwritten agreement that restricted access by military and other official ships to islands in the South China Sea.
31 people have been confirmed dead and more than 70 are missing as heavy rains continue to batter Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, officials say.
A villa once owned by Adolf Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, is reportedly going to be given away in an effort to end a decades-long debate.
A High Court judge in the U.K. ruled on Friday that the government's approval of a plan to meet climate targets lacked evidence of its feasibility and was unlawful.
Georgia's prime minister has pushed back against U.S. criticism of a proposed "foreign agents" law, dismissing it as false and reminiscent of past interference.
Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that hosts U.S. troops following a decision to expel U.S. forces, according to a U.S. defense official.
A bomb explosion at a refugee camp in eastern Congo has killed at least five people, including children, with over 20 others sustaining injuries, officials say.
Kenya's president has delayed the reopening of schools due to ongoing heavy rains and floods, which have resulted in over 200 deaths, he announced on Friday.