Iran's top judge has hinted that trials and executions are ahead as activists say the death toll from Iran's protests has risen to at least 2,571.

Hong Kong officials want to expand oversight of building maintenance and enhancing fire safety measures.

China has reported its auto exports rose 21% last year from the year before, driven by a surge in electric vehicle shipments.

Iran's judiciary chief is signaling fast trials and executions for those detained in nationwide protests.

The Ugandan opposition leader known as Bobi Wine has been campaigning for president in a flak jacket and helmet as soldiers filled the streets of the capital, Kampala.

Senate Republicans are facing intense pressure from President Donald Trump to vote down a war powers resolution that is aimed at limiting the president’s ability to carry out further military action against Venezuela.

Beirut’s Commodore Hotel, once a hub for foreign journalists during Lebanon’s civil war, has closed amid the country’s economic crisis.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is meeting with Danish and Greenlandic officials in Washington on Wednesday as President Donald Trump insists on controlling Greenland.

A construction crane fell onto a moving passenger train, causing a fiery derailment that killed at least 22 people Wednesday in northeastern Thailand.

The Japanese and South Korean leaders agreed to deepen cooperation between their countries before they let loose with their own surprise cultural exchange in a surprise jam session drumming to K-pop hits.

Asian shares are mostly higher after Wall Street pulled back from its recent records as uncertainty was brewing in various regions including Iran.

The Trump administration says multiple Americans who were detained in Venezuela have been released.

Animals at Rio de Janeiro’s BioParque zoo received popsicles and frozen treats Tuesday as the city faced another day of extreme heat during Brazil’s summer.

President Donald Trump has once again drawn his go-to diplomatic weapon — tariffs — to coerce the Iranian government to end its bloody crackdown on nationwide protests.

The plane used by the U.S. military to strike an alleged drug-smuggling boat off Venezuela last fall was painted to look like a civilian aircraft.

Iranian state media has aired at least 97 confessions from protesters since Dec. 28, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency.

President Donald Trump’s administration is ending temporary protected status for immigrants from Somalia.

Edilson Torres has been buried in his hometown after dying in a Venezuelan prison.

David Webb, a prominent Hong Kong shareholder activist, has died at 60.

President Donald Trump met Tuesday with his national security team to discuss the Iranian government’s violent crackdown on protesters as he looks to get a better understanding of the number of Iranian citizens who have been killed and arrested in more than two weeks of unrest throughout the country.

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to return to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, next week.

President Donald Trump promoted his efforts to boost U.S. manufacturing, as he tries to counter fears about a weakening job market and worries that still-rising prices are hurting Americans’ pocketbooks.

President Donald Trump's administration has made good on its pledge to label three Middle Eastern branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, imposing sanctions on them.

The leaders of Denmark and the country’s territory of Greenland on Tuesday offered a united front against President Donald Trump’s calls for the United States to take over the strategic Arctic island.

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni and his opponents have held their final rallies before the country's next election.

A Seoul court says an independent counsel has demanded a death sentence for former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Judicial officials in Lebanon says that the corruption case of former central bank governor Riad Salameh is being transferred to the country’s highest criminal court.

Malaysian authorities have announced legal action against Elon Musk's social media platform X and its AI unit xAI.

Central bankers from around the world have expressed full support for U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Senegal and Ivory Coast fans who want to support their teams at the World Cup this summer have had their plans upended because of a travel ban imposed by the Trump administration.

Strong winds have caused at least four deaths in Gaza as walls collapsed onto tents in the coastal territory.

The BBC will ask a judge to dismiss U.S. President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the broadcaster.

Russia has launched another major drone and missile attack on Ukraine that targeted the country's power grid in freezing temperatures.

Organizers of Australia’s largest free literary festival have canceled the weeklong event after most writers withdrew over the removal of an Australian Palestinian writer.

Activists say the death toll from Iran's protests has risen to at least 2,571, and Iranian state TV acknowledges there was a high death toll.

Venus Williams has lost 6-4, 6-3 to Tatjana Maria in the first round at the Hobart International, the week ahead of her appearance at the Australian Open.

Former executives of a defunct Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper are pleading for lighter sentences under a national security law.

Activists say the death toll from the protests in Iran has surpassed 2,500 people.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has returned to court to appeal an embezzlement conviction that risks affecting her 2027 presidential ambitions.

Wall Street pulled back from its records following a mixed start to the latest profit reporting season for big U.S. companies.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi have agreed to enhance cooperation in economic security, defense and the search for Korean forced laborers' remains.

President Donald Trump has arrived at a delicate moment as he weighs whether to order a U.S. military response against the Iranian government over its crackdown on protests.

The United States is accusing Russia of a “dangerous and inexplicable escalation” of the nearly four-year war in Ukraine at a time when the Trump administration is trying to advance negotiations toward peace.

Colombia’s National Liberation Army called for a “national accord” to overcome political conflicts, as it faces the prospects of attacks from the governments of Colombia and the United States.

Yaxzodara Lozada has woken up freezing on a sidewalk outside a Venezuelan prison, hoping her husband, a police officer detained in November, will be released.

A top aide to Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides has resigned after an online video was posted recently in which it was suggested that he and others were using their close ties to the leader to earn favors for would-be investors in exchange for cash.

Apple will lean on Google to help finish its bungled attempts to smarten up its virtual assistant Siri and bring other artificial intelligence features to the iPhone as the trendsetting company plays catch up in technology’s latest craze.

In Milan, a special performance at the Opera prison has featured instruments made from smugglers' boats that brought migrants to Italy.

Hospital officials in Gaza say an Israeli drone strike has killed three Palestinians who crossed the ceasefire line.

The difficulty of tracking the death toll from Iran's nationwide protests has been compounded by the government's decision to cut off the internet to the country.

Facebook owner Meta has named Dina Powell McCormick, a former Trump administration adviser and longtime finance executive, as president and vice chairman of the tech giant.

London's murder rate fell in 2025 to its lowest level in decades, officials said Monday.

A man accused of steering a U-Haul truck toward a Los Angeles demonstration over the weekend in support of Iran’s protests has been released after being arrested on suspicion of reckless driving, officials say.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says his administration is not in talks with the U.S. government.

U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated threats to take control of Greenland are straining relations with NATO allies.

Minnesota and the Twin Cities are suing the federal government to stop surge by federal immigration authorities.

Pope Leo XIV has met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the Vatican.

A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation is headed to Copenhagen later this week to show unity with Denmark amid tensions over Greenland.

China and the European Union say they have agreed on steps toward resolving their dispute over the bloc's imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles.

U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran wants to negotiate with the U.S. after his threat to strike the country over its crackdown on protesters.

U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran has proposed negotiations following his threat to strike the country amid a crackdown on demonstrators.

Myanmar heard accusations that it is responsible for genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority at the top court of the United Nations, as long-awaited hearings began on Monday.

The Golden Globes had its share of surprises and sweet moments.

For thousands of Venezuelans living in the U.S., the days since the Trump administration ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro have brought a mixture of joy and trepidation.

Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok as concerns grow over its misuse in generating explicit images.

Wall Street ticked to more records after bouncing back from early losses taken because of worries about the worsening feud between the White House and the Federal Reserve.

Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Ugandan president’s military son, is not on the ballot in Thursday's presidential election.

Nikki Glaser opened Sunday's Golden Globes with a sharp monologue.

President Donald Trump says he is “inclined” to keep ExxonMobil out of Venezuela after its top executive was skeptical about oil investment efforts in the country after the toppling of former President Nicolás Maduro.

A Hong Kong court is hearing arguments about the sentencing of democracy advocate Jimmy Lai.

First responders started entering a contested neighborhood in Syria's Aleppo after deadly clashes between government and Kurdish-led forces.

Britain is discussing with NATO allies how to enhance Arctic security against Russia and China.

Thousands of tourists are stranded in northern Finland after flights at Kittilä airport were canceled due to severe cold.

There's another warning from President Donald Trump to Cuba in the wake of Nicolás Maduro's ouster in Venezuela.

Families from one of the few remaining Palestinian Bedouin villages in the dusty corridor between Ramallah and Jericho packed up and prepared to flee their homes Sunday, saying harassment by Jewish settlers living in unauthorized outposts nearby had grown unbearable.

Hamas says it will dissolve its government in Gaza once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee takes over as part of a U.S.-brokered peace plan.

Israel is closely monitoring the fallout from widespread Iranian protests.

A group of Buddhist monks is getting viral attention with their 2,300-mile Walk for Peace from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C. The monks say their aim is to promote mindfulness and healing and finding inner peace.

Authorities have confirmed the death of a guard at construction site near a 2026 Winter Olympic venue in the mountain resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo.

Andrea Bocelli will headline the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics opening ceremony on February 6.

The German government has sharply rejected claims by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that it sidelined patient autonomy during COVID-19.

A Ukrainian drone strike has killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh.

President Donald Trump says Iran reached out to the U.S. and proposed negotiations after he threatened action in response to a crackdown on protesters in the Middle Eastern country.

Israel’s official state photos from last year portend to show history in the making.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ragtag revolutionary saga “One Battle After Another” and Chloe Zhao's Shakespeare drama “Hamnet” took top honors at Sunday’s 83rd Golden Globes, where the up-for-sale Warner Bros.

Myanmar has begun a second round of voting in its first general election since the military takeover five years ago.

Venezuelan detainee Diógenes Angulo has been released from prison after a year and five months.

Nicaragua’s Interior Ministry has announced the release of dozens of prisoners.

The U.S. has launched another round of strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria.

President Donald Trump has issued a new executive order to protect Venezuelan oil revenue from judicial proceedings.

Iran has disconnected its internet and phone lines to cut off its 85 million people from the rest of the world.

A Ukrainian drone strike has sparked a fire at an oil depot in Russia's Volgograd region.

Kurdish fighters have been evacuated from a contested neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria, after days of violent clashes with government forces.

Masked men armed with sticks have attacked a Palestinian man in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Hollywood couple Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors have received Guinean citizenship after tracing their ancestry to the West African country.

Greenland’s party leaders have rejected President Donald Trump’s calls for the U.S. to take control of the island.

Activists say the death toll in nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy has reached at least 116 people killed.

A Philippine official says rescuers have detected signs of life in an avalanche of garbage that killed at least four workers and left more than 30 others missing.

Minnesota leaders are urging protesters to remain peaceful as demonstrators converge on a Minneapolis park to protest the fatal shooting of a woman.

As U.S. seizures of oil tankers linked to Venezuela surge, so do concerns in Cuba about whether the island’s government and economy will survive.