Time was running out to find survivors, as rescuers continued to work in the Kumamoto area on Japan 's southern main island of Kyushu, where the magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Tuesday.

Russia has launched missiles toward Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, the Ukrainian Air Force said early Thursday local time, in a move that comes just hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Moscow was preparing a “massive attack.

More than 250,000 people across the two countries have been forced to evacuate, and the European Commission has said that Europe’s firefighting capacity is struggling to keep pace with what is proving to be an intense wildfire year.

Funerals are held for fighters from Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces after U.S. and Saudi strikes targeted Tehran-backed militias. Six Iranian advisers were also killed

Since former Macao pro-democracy lawmaker Au Kam San was arrested under a national security law in July 2025, little about his case has been made known.

Washington ― For generations, support for Israel united Washington. Now Israel's attacks on Gaza, the Iran war and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's close ties to U.S. Republicans are eroding Democratic backing,

Italy’s highest court has ruled that children born with both Italian and another citizenship do not automatically lose their Italian citizenship if a parent naturalizes abroad

The Fed's "family fight" returns U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to give Iran a "beating," and investors actually gave one to Meta.