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More than 200 people still live in shared emergency shelters, while thousands of others are in accommodation units meant as a stop-gap solut...

Lee Jae-myung, facing six criminal cases, needs an election before any convictions are finalized, as a conviction could disqualify him from...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter defied the furor of U.S. conservatives to negotiate the handover of the Panama Canal to Panamanian contro...

Police believe the children's mother was involved in the incident and plan to interview her.

Workers in Germany, on average, took 15.1 days of sick leave last year, up from 11.1 days in 2021.

The key topics are expected to continue making headlines in 2025.

The Paris Olympics champion is planning a busier schedule in 2025, after his world ranking slipped to No. 7.

More than 90,000 cases have been opened into instances of soldiers in Ukraine going absent without leave or deserting since Russia invaded i...

Manchester City won for the first time in five league games to climb to a provisional fifth in the Premier League.

Global environmental agreements have never been simple, but a variety of factors, such as political polarization, make countries less willin...

As its year-end expiry looms, Slovakia and a group of central European companies are putting pressure on Ukraine to keep Russian gas flowing...

Baltic Sea nations have been on high alert after a string of outages of power cables, telecom links and gas pipelines since Russia invaded U...

The presidential standoff is seen as a watershed moment in Georgia, which had been regarded as among the most pro-Western of the former Sovi...

Palestinian and United Nations officials say no place is safe in Gaza and that evacuations worsen the humanitarian conditions of the populat...

The prevalence of such scams, which prey on the lonely, has led authorities to step up measures to crack down on scammers who are often not...

While the aircraft was almost entirely destroyed, investigators will have valuable data to work with as they reconstruct the event.

While his presidency was remembered more for its failures than for its successes, his post-presidency was seen by many as a model for future...

Such a location near the Defense Ministry is expected to allow both sides to smoothly draw up joint operational plans.

On the global stage of sports, Japan's Olympians and baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani showed the world what they were made of.

Average temperatures across the nation and surrounding seas exceeded last year’s record-breaking levels "by a significant margin," affecting...

Just three years ago, the Stuttgart defender was still playing for Shoshi High School in Koriyama. Now he's competing against the likes of K...

The increase is believed to be due to a drop in daily exercise amid prolonged living in temporary housing because of disaster-related evacua...

In a signal to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, North Korea has used a key party meeting overseen by leader Kim Jong Un to announce its “t...

Now that the outgoing U.S. president’s term is about to expire, an elegy is in order for his administration's economic achievements, failure...

The record comes as Beijing continues to ramp up its activities near the tiny islets that it also claims in the East China Sea.