Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 11 people and injured dozens in central Beirut, as diplomats scramble to broker a cease-fire.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte says she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed.

The Laotian government on Saturday officially acknowledged the mass poisoning that has killed at least six tourists, pledging it would bring perpetrators to justice.

A senior Pakistani police officer says fighting between armed sectarian groups in the country's restive northwest has killed at least 33 people.

A key U.N. General Assembly committee has adopted a resolution paving the way for negotiations on a first-ever treaty on preventing and punishing crimes against humanity after Russia dropped amendments that would have derailed the effort.

The United Nations’ annual climate talks pushed into overtime Saturday as negotiators pressed on to get a deal on money for developing nations to curb and adapt to climate change.

In a sprawling secondhand clothing market in Ghana’s capital, early morning shoppers jostle as they search through piles of garments, eager to pluck a bargain or a designer find from the stalls selling used apparel from the West.

A jury has convicted two men of charges related to human smuggling for their roles in an international operation that led to the deaths of a family of Indian migrants who froze while trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border during a 2022 blizzard.

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A civil jury in Ireland has awarded more than $250,000 to a woman who says she was raped by mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor in a Dublin hotel penthouse after a night of heavy partying.

Buckingham Palace says Queen Camilla will miss another engagement as she recovers from a chest infection.

Authorities in Norway say a Norwegian student in his 20s has been arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia and Iran while working as a guard at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo.

Cyprus’ energy minister says ExxonMobil could partner up with a consortium composed of Eni of Italy and Total of France to jointly develop gas deposits they’ve discovered close to each other off the island nation’s southern coast.

A special tribunal has rejected a legal claim against Britain’s domestic intelligence agency by more than 300 survivors of a bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in Manchester.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli airstrikes have killed the director of the largest hospital in the country's northeast.

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she felt “sorrow” at Donald Trump’s return to power and recalls that every meeting with him was “a competition: you or me.”.

Protesters in Pakistan’s restive northwest chanted anti-government slogans and tensions flared as funeral prayers were held for 42 Shiite Muslims who were ambushed and killed by gunmen a day earlier.

The United Nations says more aid workers, health care staffers, delivery personnel and other humanitarians have been killed in 2024 than in any other single year.

NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked a central city with a hypersonic ballistic missile that escalated the nearly 33-month-old war.

Indigenous leaders from the Wampis Nation in Peru are urging lawmakers at the House of Commons in London to ban international banks’ support for Amazon oil activities they say harm their ancestral rainforests.

Indian tycoon Gautam Adani, one of Asia’s richest men, may be facing his biggest challenge yet with an indictment by U.S. prosecutors for alleged fraud and bribery.

An Australian Cabinet minister has rejected X Corp. owner Elon Musk’s allegation that the government intends to control all Australians' access to the internet through legislation that would ban young children from social media.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says he will defy an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died, according to a family statement sent to Australian media.

The Bahamas says it will refinance $300 million of its external debt to free up more than $120 million for marine conservation projects and climate change mitigation.

A top South Korean official says Russia has supplied air defense missile systems to North Korea in exchange for Pyongyang sending troops.

The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia has been released at sea 20 days after he waddled ashore on a popular tourist beach.

A new draft of a deal on money to curb and adapt to climate change released Friday afternoon at the United Nations climate summit pledged $250 billion annually by 2035 from wealthy countries to poorer ones.

Pragnya Mohan has been a professional triathlete for nearly a decade, but summers in her native India are now so hot that she can’t train there anymore.

Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip are often eating just once a day, even in areas where aid groups have relatively more access than the isolated and heavily destroyed north.

Police have formally accused Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people of attempting a coup to keep the right-wing leader in office after his defeat in the 2022 elections.

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street, giving the market its fifth gain in a row and notching another record high for the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Shohei Ohtani is going to save the newspaper industry in Japan — singlehandedly.

Arrest warrants issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and a Hamas leader put them in a small group of leaders to be accused of crimes against humanity.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board has condemned Iran for failing to cooperate fully with the agency, the second time it has done so in just five months.

The new ballistic missile fired by Russia struck a military-industrial facility in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, but its real mission was delivering a deadly new message to NATO.

Brazil’s Federal Police have formally accused former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people of attempting a coup to keep him in office after his electoral defeat in the 2022 elections.

U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled that Google maintained an illegal monopoly.

A sheriff says a Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning this summer so he could abandon his wife and three children is in Eastern Europe but has not committed to returning home.

It was an emotional farewell from tennis for Nadal this week after Spain was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup in Malaga.

Russia’s third largest bank, Gazprombank and its six foreign subsidiaries were hit with U.S. sanctions on Thursday.

Pope Francis is warning that the Vatican's troubled pension fund faces a “serious imbalance” and cannot guarantee future obligations without “urgent structural” reforms.

When Ephrem Yalike-Ngonzo was first approached in 2019 by a Russian who suggested he help promote the activities of the Central African Republic’s army and Russian forces in the country, the journalist believed that he was doing the right thing.

When Jean-Charles de Castelbajac saw Notre Dame cathedral burn in April 2019, he felt compelled to act.

Police in Finland have detained five suspects over their alleged involvement in separatist violence in southeastern Nigeria.

No. 1-ranked Jannik Sinner has led defending champion Italy to a comeback victory over Argentina for a return to the Davis Cup semifinals.

The world’s top war-crimes court has issued arrest warrants for the leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and a Hamas leader.

A Thai court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a pro-democracy activist who alleged spyware produced by an Israeli tech firm had been used to hack his phone.

Palestinian health officials say the death toll in the Gaza Strip from the 13-month-old war between Israel and Hamas has surpassed 44,000.

Pakistani police say gunmen have fired on vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in the restive northwest, killing at least 42 people and wounding 20 others.

A Scottish dairy is making the audacious bid to sell what it’s calling Britain's most expensive cup of coffee.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow has tested a new intermediate-range missile in a strike on Ukraine and that it could use the weapon against countries that have allowed Kyiv to use their missiles to strike Russia.

Former British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has died at age 86.

One of Asia’s richest men, Indian tycoon Gautam Adani, is again in the spotlight.

A new draft text released early Thursday which will form the basis of any deal reached at United Nations climate talks on money for developing countries to transition to clean energy and adapt to climate change left out a crucial sticking point: how much wealthy nations will pay.

Southeast Asian defense chiefs are meeting with China, the United States and other partner nations in Laos for security talks, which come as Beijing’s increasingly assertive stance in its claim to most of the South China Sea is leading to more confrontations.

The deadly collapse of a concrete roof at a rail station in Serbia has raised tensions across the Balkan county.

The Singapore pavilion at the United Nations climate talks offers attendees free beer with an ingredient that's surprising to many — treated wastewater.

On the southeastern coast of Jayapura city lies a mangrove forest where only women are permitted to enter.

A volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland is spewing lava from a fissure in its seventh eruption since December.

A ban on New Zealanders wearing or displaying symbols of gang affiliation in public has taken effect, with police officers arresting a man for breaking the law three minutes later.

An Australian teenager and a British woman have died after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos in what Australia’s prime minister said was every parent’s nightmare.

U.S. stocks climbed after market superstar Nvidia and another round of companies said they’re making even fatter profits than expected.

Russia and China oppose changing the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti into a U.N. peacekeeping mission.

U.S. regulators want a federal judge to break up Google to prevent the company from continuing to squash competition through its dominant search engine after a court found it had maintained an abusive monopoly over the past decade.

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The U.S. leads the world in developing artificial intelligence technology, surpassing China in research and other important measures of AI innovation, according to a newly released Stanford University index.

Legislation for the world's first legal ban on children under 16 using social media has been introduced in Australia's Parliament.

An Indian national who survived a treacherous trek across the U.S.-Canada border in blizzard conditions has testified that he got separated from a family of four shortly before they froze to death.

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega is proposing a constitutional reform that would officially make him and his wife, current Vice President Rosario Murillo, “copresidents” of the Central American nation.

The Senate has rejected attempts by Sen. Bernie Sanders to block the sale of offensive weapons to Israel.

At a delicate moment in the U.S. and for the world, President Joe Biden has been notably quiet lately.

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has welcomed China’s President Xi Jinping for a state visit at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, in the latest sign of deepening ties between the two countries that analysts say may accelerate as Donald Trump returns to the White House in 2025.

About 1,500 migrants have formed a new caravan in southern Mexico, hoping to walk or catch rides to the U.S. border.

Donald Trump has tapped former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker as U.S. ambassador to NATO, set to make him the nation’s representative to a bedrock Western alliance that the president-elect has repeatedly relished criticizing.

Two-time Grand Slam finalist Jasmine Paolini has capped a breakthrough season by leading Italy to its first Billie Jean King Cup title since 2013.

The U.S. decision to provide Ukraine with antipersonnel land mines expands the use of a weapon that the international community has long condemned because of its danger to innocent civilians.

Russia has sent a gift of more than 70 animals to North Korea for the Pyongyang Zoo, including bears, yaks, ducks and cockatoos.

Metal lockers that once held the sweat-stained shirts and muddy cleats of some of the world’s greatest soccer players are up for auction.

The office of the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion, says he will wrap up his official duties in early January amid an abuse scandal in the Church of England.

A promotional video for a rebrand of British luxury car brand Jaguar is being criticized online for showing models in brightly colored outfits — and no car.

A human rights report says hundreds of people in Belarus who have shown solidarity with Ukraine have been arrested in a sweeping crackdown under authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.

President-elect Donald Trump says he's chosen former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to serve as U.S. ambassador to NATO.

The United States has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the war in Gaza because it was not linked to an immediate release of hostages taken captive by Hamas last year.

Israeli officials have demanded freedom to strike Hezbollah in Lebanon as part of any emerging cease-fire deal between the sides, raising a potential complication as a top U.S. envoy was in the region attempting to clinch an agreement.

Rafael Nadal's retirement from tennis serves as a reminder that for all of his Grand Slam titles and other successes, his greatest legacy might be the qualities that inspired Carlos Alcaraz, Iga Swiatek and other younger players.

The former members of One Direction have reunited for the funeral of bandmate Liam Payne, who died in a fall from a hotel window in Argentina on Oct. 16.

The right-to-die activist behind a new “suicide capsule” says he rejects “absurd” allegations that the U.S. woman who was said to be its first user may have actually been strangled.

The Venezuelan man convicted in the killing of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Ford is cutting its workforce by 4,000 in Europe and the U.K. by the end of 2027, citing headwinds from the economy and pressure from increased competition and weaker-than-expected sales of electric cars.

Spain will grant residency and work permits to about 300,000 migrants in the country illegally each year for the next three years.

Pope Francis has revised the funeral rites that will be used when he dies.

The United States has vetoed a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

The World Health Organization has authorized the first mpox vaccine for children.

Pope Francis will make late teen Carlo Acutis the Catholic Church’s first millennial and digital saint next year.

A new study says human-caused climate change made Atlantic hurricanes about 18 mph stronger in the last six years.

Australian communications minister says the government won’t force social media users to hand over personal information to tech companies, as children younger than 16 are set to be banned from the platforms.

A Spanish court has upheld a ruling that a supermarket worker was unlawfully fired for having eaten a croquette that was going to be thrown away after not having been sold from the store’s deli section.

Russia’s upper house of parliament has endorsed a bill banning adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal.