Rescue personnel are working to free those trapped in collapsed buildings after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Kumamoto on Tuesday.

Lindsey Graham had one request. The South Carolina Republican asked Zelensky, who was speaking later that day with President Donald Trump, to promote the senator’s bill to harden sanctions on Russia’s wartime economy,

Two young men were publicly hanged in Isfahan's Shahid Alikhani Square, prompting onlookers to protest before Iranian security forces fired tear gas.

The Israeli military was about to launch a nighttime strike on a group of men in southern Syria when the soldiers noticed the long curls dangling from the temples of their targets. The troops held their fire.

The Kenya Wildlife Service said 10 of the elephants showed signs of partial paralysis before dying within two days.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ​said on Wednesday ‌he planned to convene a multi-party meeting ​on the division ​of Cyprus to define ⁠the way forward ​on resolving a conflict ​which has lasted more than half a century.

Behind our uniform and badge, we are also human." It's a strategy far different than that commonly seen south of the Canadian border, where federal immigration authorities spurred on by President Donald Trump use aggressive tactics to intercept and detain people illegally crossing into the United States or remaining there without permission.

The visits by the leaders of Israel and Ukraine underscored just how deeply President Trump was enmeshed in conflicts he had promised — and failed — to end quickly.