Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has won the catchphrase of the year for her pledge to “work, work, work, work and work” for the country.

The United States has inaugurated a massive new consulate compound in Irbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s Kurdish region.

The Pentagon knew there were survivors after a September attack on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea and the U.S. military still carried out a follow-up strike.

Talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on alleged affiliates of the Tren de Aragua gang.

Exclusive drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows a devastated Ukrainian town nearly encircled by Russian forces near the city that Moscow this week claimed to now control.

Lebanon’s prime minister says his country is “far from” diplomatic normalization or economic relations with Israel.

Chile has passed a bill outlawing the use of mobile phones and other smart devices during classes at elementary and middle schools.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released 11 mariners held since a July attack on the ship Eternity C in the Red Sea, an assault that killed four on board and sank the vessel.

Decorated Native American veteran Charles Shay has died at age 101 in France.

A resistance group in Myanmar has reportedly detained a candidate for the election scheduled for later this month.

The death toll from a high-rise apartment fire in Hong Kong has risen to 159.

Malaysia's transport ministry has announced that a private firm will resume the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 later this month.

French President Emmanuel Macron has landed in Beijing for a three-day visit to China focused on trade talks and global crises.

President Donald Trump says he does not want Somali immigrants in the U.S., saying residents of the war-ravaged eastern African country are too reliant on U.S. social safety net and add little to the United States.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is citing the “fog of war” in defending a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea in early September.

Dressed in traditional Palestinian prints and a suit, Eman Hassan Lawwa and Hikmat Lawwa walked hand-in-hand past the crumbled buildings of southern Gaza in a line of couples dressed exactly the same as them.

Eugene Hasenfus, who played a key role in unraveling the Iran-Contra affair after his CIA-backed supply plane was shot down over Nicaragua in 1986, has died.

Israel says it has received remains handed over by Palestinian militants in Gaza to the Red Cross.

Emergency crews are racing to reach survivors and recover bodies after catastrophic floods and landslides in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia.

Palestinians in the West Bank are living in fear of more attacks by armed Israeli settlers.

A new report by the United Nations Development Program is urging governments to focus more on how artificial intelligence technologies might affect people already disadvantaged in a data-driven world.

Pope Leo XIV has prayed at the site of the 2020 Beirut port explosion, urging justice for the 218 victims.

Hong Kong is setting up an independent committee to investigate a deadly fire that burned seven apartment buildings and killed at least 156 people.