Asian shares have mostly gained led by a rally in Japan after Wall Street hit more records.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung met Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in western Japan for a summit where the two leaders aim to improve the sometimes-strained relationship as Tokyo faces a deepening row with China.

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.

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.

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.

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 will face accusations that it is responsible for genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority at the top court of the United Nations, as long-awaited hearings are set to begin.

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 on Monday heard arguments about the sentence for pro-democracy media founder Jimmy Lai in a landmark national security case.

Residents have started returning to 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.

A federal judge is expected to temporarily block efforts by the Trump administration to end a program that offered legal protections for more than 10,000 relatives of citizens and green card holders.

The United States and Venezuela are exploring the possibility of restoring diplomatic relations.

Environmental experts warn that U.S. plans under President Donald Trump to restart and control Venezuelan oil exports could intensify pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and ecological damage in a country already burdened by decades of oil-related degradation.

Nearly 50 years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution overthrew his father, exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has spurred demonstrators onto the streets in a massive escalation of the protests sweeping Iran.

The U.S. military says U.S. forces have boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea as the Trump administration continues to target sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela.

President Donald Trump says American intervention in Venezuela will bring billions of dollars of investment in the country's infrastructure, a revival of its once-thriving oil industry and a new age of prosperity for the Latin American country.

A new U.N. rights report says that the presidential election in Uganda next week will be “marked by widespread repression and intimidation" against the opposition and others.

Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships have launched a week of naval drills with host South African off the coast of Cape Town as geopolitical tensions run high over the United States’ intervention in Venezuela.

Russia has used its latest missile against Ukraine for a second time in the nearly 4-year-old war, a forceful signal to Kyiv and its Western allies as peace talks are in a crucial stage.

The United States will be providing significant aid to Thailand and Cambodia to ensure regional stability in the wake of the two nations fighting last year.

Pope Leo XIV has denounced how nations are increasingly using force to assert their dominion worldwide.

David Bowie’s childhood home could soon become a tourist attraction.

Yemen's main separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council, is set to dismantle its institutions effective Friday.

Thousands of homes and businesses across northern France and southern England are without power and residents faced widespread travel delays after a storm swept in off the Atlantic.

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Somalia’s capital to protest Israel’s recognition of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland.

Switzerland is holding a national day of mourning for the 40 people who died in an Alpine bar fire during a New Year’s Eve celebration.

A week in which longtime tensions between neighbors China and Japan ratcheted up economically and politically is drawing to a close with no sign of improvements.

Health officials say at least 13 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza as U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce his Board of Peace to oversee the fragile ceasefire.

Demonstrations broke out in Iran on Dec. 28 and have spread nationwide as protesters vent their increasing discontent over the Islamic Republic’s faltering economy and the collapse of its currency.

Nickolay Mladenov, the man chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza, is a Bulgarian politician and former U.N. envoy to the Middle East who frequently has worked to ease tensions between Israel and Hamas.

Syria's Defense Ministry has announced a ceasefire after three days of clashes in Aleppo between government forces and Kurdish fighters.

Protests in Iran have continued despite threats from the government to crack down.

K-pop is an inextricable force in global pop culture.

U.S. stocks rose to more records following a mixed report on the U.S. job market.

A massive crowd of mostly barefoot Filipino Catholics is joining an annual procession of a centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ in the Philippine capital, with some using the gathering to express outrage over a corruption scandal involving influential legislators.

Russia has launched a massive overnight attack on Ukraine, using hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles.

Venezuela’s sudden release of detainees Thursday brought relief and guarded optimism to a country consumed by uncertainty.

President Donald Trump’s plan to control Venezuela's oil industry and counter China's influence could clash with his goal of stabilizing trade with Beijing.

The United Nations is forecasting that the global economy will grow by 2.7% this year.

Officials in the Philippines say two people have been killed and 36 others are missing after an avalanche of garbage and debris buried or trapped workers at a landfill.

U.S. President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the United Nations climate framework marks a significant escalation of anti-climate policy.

The Mexican government reports a sharp decline in homicide rates, claiming its security strategy is working.

Russia has strongly condemned the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker.

The top United Nations official says the United States has a “legal obligation” to keep paying its dues that fund U.N. agencies after the White House announced that it's withdrawing support from more than 30 initiatives operated by the world body.

Artificial intelligence took center stage at this year's CES gadget show, but not always for the right reasons.

Venezuela has released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists — both citizens and foreigners — nearly a week after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces to face drug-trafficking charges.

The U.S. has seized a Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the North Atlantic, backed by British support.

Somalia’s government is denying an allegation by the U.S. government that authorities in Mogadishu destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program.

Russian drone strikes have knocked out power in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region and left over 600,000 households in Dnipropetrovsk without electricity.

France's president says a political scholar from the country who was serving a three-year sentence in Russia and facing new charges of espionage has been freed in a prisoner swap with France.

The Senate has advanced a resolution that would limit President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela.