Fourteen people charged for their roles in plotting a series of terror attacks, including one at the office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French newspaper, stood trial on Wednesday.
Thailand’s king has reconciled with his ousted mistress nearly a year after stripping her royal consort title over accusations of being disloyal and competing against his wife to rise to the level of queen.
India on Wednesday banned another 118 Chinese mobile apps, including the widely popular video game "PUBG," as the standoff between the two neighboring nations intensified.
Half of Saudi Arabia's recent coronavirus cases are among young people who have not been following health guidelines, the country's health ministry confirmed in a study on Wednesday.
Pope Francis called for a day of prayer and fasting in Italy to commemorate the one-month mark after the deadly blast that destroyed large swaths of Beirut and killed hundreds.
The German government announced Wednesday that tests performed on samples taken from Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny positively show the presence of the nerve agent Novichok.
A strengthening Tropical Storm Nana is forecast to become a hurricane by the time it reaches Belize on Thurday as another tropical storm is moving away from the U.S.
The Khmer Rouge’s chief jailer, who admitted overseeing the torture and killings of as many as 16,000 Cambodians while running the regime’s most notorious prison, has died. Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, was 77 and had been serving a life prison term for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Jared Kushner, the senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, hopes other nations will soon follow in the footsteps of the United Arab Emirates after a historic flight this week between Israel and the country as part of a normalized relationship agreed upon last month.
From behind bars in Argentina, a wanted Turkish mob leader has ignited a firestorm with explosive allegations that some Turkish government officials had recruited him to put a hit on former political prisoner, Pastor Andrew Brunson.
Dozens of Belarus citizens arrested while protesting the results of their Aug. 9 presidential election have vanished, opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said Monday.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson assured ministers Tuesday that though there’s more “wretched COVID” to come, he’s “absolutely confident” the government can manage outbreaks as the nation’s workforce returns “in huge numbers” to their offices.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte publicly ordered the country’s top customs official to shoot and kill drug smugglers in one of his most overt threats during a deadly four-year campaign that has been the centerpiece of his presidency.
Zhao Lei is suing the government for compensation and a rare public apology for its botched response to the coronavirus pandemic that has already killed 851,141 people and infected more than 25.5 million people globally.
Ethnic Mongolians staged protests in northern China this week over Beijing’s new policy to gradually replace their native language with Mandarin in several school subjects.
A powerful typhoon blew over Japan's southernmost islands on Tuesday and was headed toward the country's main southern island and the Korean Peninsula.
Courts in the Iranian city of Shiraz slapped a champion wrestler with a shocking penalty of two death sentences and whipping for protesting in 2018 against the Islamic Republic of Iran’s disastrous economic policies.