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Seoul: The highest court in the Republic of Korea on Thursday upheld ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol's seven year prison sentence over crimes tied...

Masbate, Philippines: Standing knee-deep in coastal waters, environmentalist Andrea Pimentel guides workers as they drive bamboo poles into the seabed to block sediment...

Washington: The US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced Thursday that it targeted nearly 90 Iranian military targets. An additional round of strikes against Iran...

Doha, Qatar: Authorities in Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait issued warnings in the early hours of Thursday, July 9, 2026. In an alert sent...

The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) says on X that, at President Trump’s direction, its forces “have started conducting additional strikes against Iran...

Doha: Nearly 900 snakes, including venomous cobras, escaped from a snake farm in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region after floodwaters destroyed the...

Havana: Cuba fully restored its energy grid early Wednesday after the third nationwide blackout this year, but authorities warned more outages could follow...

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: Heavy rain in Bangladesh triggered a landslide at the world's largest refugee camp on Wednesday, killing seven children and a...

Munich, Germany: German police said several people had been wounded and a suspect arrested in an attack at a secondary school in the...

Sydney, Australia: Sea turtles fitted with tracking devices and oceanographic sensors are helping scientists in Australia improve tropical cyclone forecasts by collecting critical...

Kuwait: Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense spokesperson Colonel Saud Al Attwan announced that the armed forces detected and successfully intercepted two ballistic missiles and...

Brussels, Belgium: The European Union on Wednesday said "decisions about the future of Greenland are for Greenlanders and Danes" after US President Donald...

London, United Kingdom: Almost 6,000 seafarers "remain stranded" in the Gulf, the head of the International Maritime Organization said Wednesday as he called...

Colombo: Sri Lanka plans to open a new prison in a disused hospital building, the justice ministry announced Wednesday after a riot killed...

London: The 1,000-year-old Bayeux Tapestry depicting the last successful military invasion of England will arrive in London in the coming days by dead...

Barcelona: The morning sun beats down on Antonio Reina as he tends to a public garden in Barcelona, but he works reassured that...

Liulan, China: Rescuers scoured flooded parts of China for survivors on Wednesday after storms killed 17 people and caused dozens of rivers to...

Ankara: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to cut off trade with Spain and insisted he still wanted Greenland, as NATO leaders...