Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday picked a nationalist former member of a hard-right party to run for mayor of Ankara in closely watched March 31 local elections.
A Kenyan court on Thursday charged the leader of a starvation cult with terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani on Thursday repeated his call for the US-led international anti-jihadist coalition to depart his country amid soaring regional tensions over the Israel-Hamas war.
Catherine, Princess of Wales, spent her third day in hospital on Thursday following surgery, as King Charles III was poised for prostate surgery, creating a royal frontline staffing shortage.
The Philippines' defense chief did not mince words in his statement regarding Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning's remarks directed at the Philippine president that suggested Marcos Jr. was ignorant of the Taiwan issue.
Rembrandt's earliest works, painted when the Dutch master was only 18 years old, will soon be on display together for the first time in his hometown of Leiden.
Pakistan said Thursday it carried out strikes against militant targets in Iran, with Tehran reporting a death toll of nine civilians after staging its own air raid in Pakistan earlier this week.
The International Monetary Fund said it has granted Kenya a new loan of more than $941 million to help buttress the finances of the cash-strapped East African nation.
On Day 104 of the raging Gaza war, the conflict has apparently expanded in the Middle East as tensions between Iran and Pakistan escalated in the past two days following a deadly strike in Pakistan by the IRGC.
Singapore's prime minister announced on Thursday the resignation of his transport chief after he was charged with 27 offences in a corruption probe that has also ensnared a billionaire hotel tycoon.
Novak Djokovic has long credited a series of unusual methods for helping him become one of the greatest players ever, not least his 15-year "special relationship" with a Melbourne tree.
The United States on Wednesday struck 14 Houthi missile launchers that being prepared to attack maritime shipping in the Red Sea.
In the occupied West Bank, Hafeth Ghazawneh waits in quiet frustration for customers to visit his falafel stall, which has been deserted since the October 7 Hamas attacks in Israel.
The prosecutor investigating a dramatic armed assault by gangsters last week on an Ecuadoran television station during a live broadcast was shot dead Wednesday, the attorney general said.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak survived a key test of his leadership Wednesday, fending off right-wing rebels to win a crunch parliamentary vote on his contentious plan to send migrants to Rwanda.
The woman who Donald Trump was found liable of sexually assaulting faced off with the former president Wednesday in a New York courtroom to say he subsequently ruined her reputation.
French President Emmanuel Macron borrowed lines from the far right for a press conference this week designed to relaunch his sputtering second term.
When Turkey's first astronaut blasts off for the International Space Station (ISS) this week, he will embody his country's pride and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's grand geopolitical ambitions.
Malaysia's AI Program for the People aims to improve the masses' AI literacy following a late 2023 report that revealed the Southeast Asian nation's AI readiness was only at 13%.
AFP journalists around the world staged rallies Wednesday to show solidarity with nine colleagues in Gaza, with agency chiefs calling on Israel to ensure their safety and let them leave the war-torn territory.
Russia said Wednesday it had targeted a group of French fighters in a long-range strike on the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, an attack authorities said injured more than a dozen civilians.
The United States announced Wednesday that it will put Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels back on a list of "terrorist" entities due to their repeated attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea.
Severe winter weather in northern Europe prompted the cancellation of hundreds of flights Wednesday at Frankfurt airport, Germany's busiest, while heavy snow in Scandinavia shut down air travel in Oslo for several hours.
The Princess of Wales is facing up to two weeks in hospital and several months' recuperation after undergoing successful abdominal surgery, Kensington Palace announced on Wednesday.
Protesters back on the streets a month after Serbia's disputed elections hope they can still rattle the country's strongman leader Aleksandar Vucic.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Wednesday his country's priority for 2024 was to gain control over its skies, as Russia's full-scale assault enters its third year.
Opposition leaders in the Comoros demanded Wednesday that this week's presidential election be declared void, as police fired tear gas on protesters angered at the re-election of President Azali Assoumani.
More than 20 humanitarian groups have expressed serious concern about the military escalation in Yemen, warning it will delay shipments and push up prices in the heavily aid-dependent country.
Kfir Bibas, with his red hair and pink stuffed elephant, was less than nine months old when Hamas militants snatched him from his bed in an Israeli kibbutz on October 7.
The Philippine President congratulated Lai Ching-te for winning the Taiwanese election, and Beijing is left fuming – it lodged a "serious demarche" and summoned the Philippine ambassador.
