The town of Siversk had served as a stronghold in the portion of eastern Donetsk still under Ukrainian control. Moscow wants Kyiv to surrender the town as part of a peace deal.

A man accused of shooting dead 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in an antisemitic attack faced a lengthy delay in getting a gun license because of a bureaucratic mishap, not because he raised suspicions,

The death toll in South Africa ’s latest mass shooting at a pub rose to 10 on Tuesday, while police said they had identified two potential suspects. Three women and seven men were killed in Sunday's early-morning assault in the township of Bekkersdal,

Libyan Army Chief of Staff Mohammad Ali Ahmed al-Haddad and seven others died when their plane crashed shortly after takeoff near Ankara, Turkey.

The U.S. military says it struck a vessel that was allegedly carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific on Monday, killing one person — part of a months-long campaign of boat strikes near Latin America.

A former close aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that immediately following the October 2023 Hamas attack that triggered Israel’s two-year war in Gaza, the Israeli leader instructed him to figure out how the premier could evade responsibility for the security breach.

Pope Leo said on Tuesday (December 23) that he feels "great sadness" that Russia did not agree to a Christmas ceasefire in its nearly four-year old war with Ukraine. Will Central African Republic's crypto embrace endanger state assets?

The Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized government plan to exchange about 2,900 detainees, a rare humanitarian win at a time of deepening political stalemate.