The DOJ alleged that Bankman-Fried "misappropriated and embezzled FTX customer deposits" and used the funds for a variety of purposes, including political funding.
More than half of Filipinos want the government to use military action in response to China's increasing aggression in the West Philippine Sea, a new survey revealed. Tensions have been high in recent days following the Chinese Coast Guard's firing of a water cannon on Philippine vessels.
President Emmanuel Macron's tough-talking Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin is testing the waters for a crack at the French presidency in 2027, with a stark warning that far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen risks taking the Elysee if the wrong candidate stands.
Argentines will choose between far-right lawmaker Javier Milei, center-right coalition candidate Patricia Bullrich and Economy Minister Sergio Massa in this year's presidential vote, according to results from Sunday's primary election.
Little-known senator Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar was set to be sworn in Monday as Pakistan's caretaker prime minister to see the country through to an election due in months.
The US Justice Department on Friday escalated its investigation into President Joe Biden's son Hunter, naming a special counsel amid allegations he engaged in illicit business deals overseas.
Federal prosecutors have spent five years investigating Hunter Biden, looking into possible crimes such as felony tax evasion, illegal foreign lobbying and money laundering.
Taiwan strengthening its ties with the U.S. has prompted another stark warning from Beijing, as the island was not included in the latest list of countries Chinese tour groups can visit.
Some sprinted to safety while others cowered low to the ground as a barrage of submachine-gun fire cut short the life of Ecuadoran presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, in scenes described as a "horror movie."
Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio stood at the forefront of Ecuador's anti-corruption struggle, denouncing irregularities in public contracts just days before being assassinated in the middle of the election campaign.
The Philippines has been firmer in handling China's aggression over disputed waters, and while an armed offensive from Beijing is unlikely at this time, the smaller Southeast Asian nation's current military capacity can't, in any way, triumph over China if an armed clash occurs.
China is planning to restrict private businesses from using facial recognition technology less than two years after it announced a data security law.
Pakistan's parliament was due to be dissolved Wednesday, ushering in a technocrat-led interim government to oversee an election that will not include the country's most popular politician, Imran Khan.
China's declining population, along with a rise in the number of elderly citizens, is expected to dampen the Asian economic leader's economic future.
Niger military leaders, who have recently overthrown the elected government of President Mohamed Bazoum, have denied U.S. Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland a meeting with the ousted leader.
Lawyers for Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan were Tuesday set to file a bail application for him, as he languished in a small cell of a century-old prison at the start of a three-year jail term for graft.
Lawyers for former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan went to court on Monday to challenge a three-year jail sentence for graft that has ruled him out of contesting elections due later this year.
Indonesia is only behind the U.S., China and Russia in the ranking, which looked at the overall strength, modernization, logistical support and attack and defense capabilities of countries.
China rejected blame for the G20 climate meet's failure to secure an agreement, blaming "some countries" that "introduced geopolitical issues as an obstruction."
Deputies in Senegal's parliament passed a vote Saturday that effectively restored the right of two key opposition deputies to run in the country's presidential election next year.
Former international cricket star Imran Khan had vowed to captain the country a second time after being ousted as prime minister last year, but his conviction for graft Saturday has seen his chances stumped.
A year of definitive elections, 2024 will see contests in superpower states the US and India...
Russia gives few glimpses nowadays of Alexei Navalny, an opposition icon who leveraged social media and fatigue with the Kremlin to rise to stardom before being poisoned and jailed.
Former president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to historic charges of leading a criminal conspiracy that sought to defraud the American people by overturning the 2020 election.
Donald Trump is expected to appear in court on Thursday to answer charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, a case that will cast a dark and volatile cloud over the 2024 White House race for which he remains the presumptive Republican nominee.
Donald Trump has been burning through millions of dollars as he faces an onslaught of legal bills from the investigations threatening his presidential election bid -- with some sources of funding drying up fast.
"It was compelling," Joe Biden offered Tuesday after Donald Trump's indictment.
Former US president Donald Trump is now facing three criminal indictments, all filed since March -- raising the prospect that the Republican frontrunner in the 2024 White House race could end up navigating a series of trials as he campaigns.
As mushrooming criminal probes threaten his political ambitions and his liberty, Donald Trump has been able to console himself with one encouraging constant: blockbuster polling numbers.
China has warned that U.S. military aid to Taiwan will not stop its "firm will" for reunification with the self-governing island nation. Beijing has also continuously sent in warplanes and vessels around the island as Taiwan bolsters its defenses.
