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Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested Tuesday in Manila by police acting on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warran...

Australian utilities raced Tuesday to reconnect more than 120,000 homes and businesses still blacked out by gales and floods that bashed the...

World number one Aryna Sabalenka overpowered Lucia Bronzetti 6-1, 6-2 to lead a string of top women's seeds into the last 16 at Indian Wells...

Shares of Tesla are sliding again Monday as confidence in Elon Musk's electric car company continues to disintegrate following a post-electi...

The Palestinian student activist at New York's Columbia University detained as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's crackdown on some anti-...

North Korea fired "multiple unidentified ballistic missiles" on Monday, South Korea's military said, the same day Seoul and Washington began...

South Korean prosecutors will pursue President Yoon Suk Yeol's conviction for insurrection despite a court decision ordering the release of...

Mark Carney, soon to become Canada's new prime minister, is a two-time central banker and crisis fighter about to face his biggest challenge...

“It’s as if six billion bowls of rice went missing.”What’s happening with rice? Its price is a raging fever. Five kilograms of Niigata Kosh...

Police in Yokohama have arrested a 58-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of attempting to kill his 63-year-old sister by stabbing her with...

Wild weather has blacked out more than 300,000 homes and businesses on Australia's east coast, officials said Sunday, with one driver confir...

Five-time champion Novak Djokovic tumbled out of the Indian Wells ATP Masters on Saturday, falling in his first match to lotic van de Zandsc...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in two days of clashes between gunmen and security forces linked to Syria's new Islamist rulers and...

Protesters took to the streets across the world Saturday to mark International Women's Day, demanding equal pay, political representation an...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol walked out of a detention centre in Seoul on Saturday after prosecutors decided not to appeal a court d...

At least 11 people were injured in a shooting at a pub in Toronto, and the suspect remained at large, CTV News reported on Friday.No descri...

South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the United States in 15 years.Brad S...

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Friday endorsed an Arab League counter-proposal to U.S. President Donald Trump's controversial pl...

People in Japan believe closer economic ties should be a top priority in diplomacy with the United States, according to a government poll re...

Japan partially lifted wildfire evacuation orders on Friday after rain helped stop the country's worst blaze in more than half a century fro...

Rights advocates raised alarm, including free speech concerns, on Thursday after it was reported that the U.S. State Department will use art...

SpaceX's massive Starship spacecraft exploded in space on Thursday minutes after lifting off from Texas, causing the FAA to halt air traffic...

A federal judge on Thursday gave the Trump administration until Monday to pay nearly $2 billion owed to partners of the U.S. Agency for Inte...

Seven & i Holdings, the Japanese operator of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, appointed its first foreign CEO and handed him the task o...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he will pause tariffs on most imports from Mexico until April 2, in the latest move of an unpredic...