The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a fatal attack on the senior Taliban governor and two others in Afghanistan. Abdul Haq al-Khorasani was the assailant.
Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides said Friday that the Mediterranean island nation will earmark 2% of its gross domestic product for defense spending.
Japan plans to release treated radioactive wastewater into the ocean. However, China said the country should first get approval from international institutions.
An Egyptian poet is serving a five year prison prison sentence for spreading "false news." A U.S. free speech organization is calling on the country's government to release him
The Beijing talks capped off a series of talks over the past two years between Saudi Arabia and Iran, with previous talks in Iraq and Oman in 2021 and 2022 respectively.
Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, is insisting that pension reform is needed to make the system financially sustainable for the future as strikes continue.
A group of climate activists who recorded themselves supergluing their hands to the base of an ancient Roman statue are now standing trial in Vatican City court.
Seven people, including an unborn child, were killed in the Thursday night shooting in Hamburg, Germany after a single gunman unleashed over 100 rounds into a Jehovah's Witness meeting.
The air quality in Beijing is plummeting due to dust storms and heavy pollution. The capital city's air quality index is 1,093, which is a "hazardous" level.
North Korea launched a mock attack on South Korea on Friday, firing a series of missiles with dictator Kim Jong Un overseeing the display from an undisclosed location.
Concerns increase over whether the U.S. would be able to adequately engage with China in a war over Taiwan as Beijing's aggression in the region continues to mount.
The United States is holding annual African military training aimed at helping armies contain jihadi threats. This comes as extremist violence in West Africa has spread south.
Russian President Vladimir Putin published a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday, congratulating Xi on his historic re-election to a third term.
China's legislative body elected President Xi Jinping to a third five-year term as president on Friday. The election upended a longstanding Chinese precedent.
German authorities said that shots were fired inside a church, and several fatalities were reported. One or more gumen entered the church and began firing at people.
Islamic extremists killed 25 fishermen in northeast Nigeria during an attack Wednesday. The extremists' surrounded the fishermen in Mukdolo village, 9 were able to escape.
