Israeli forces killed four people, including a child, in southern Lebanon on Monday evening, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported, citing the health ministry, in two separate strikes that the Israeli military said targeted members of the Shia Muslim armed group Hezbollah.

Anti-graft watchdog Transparency International (TI) yesterday warned of worsening corruption in democracies worldwide and said the United States had slid to the lowest-ever score on its 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index.

Europe should brace for more moments of US hostility, French President Emmanuel Macron has warned, and should treat what he called the “Greenland moment” as a wake up call to push through long delayed reforms to strengthen the bloc’s global power.

A White House official on Monday reiterated US President Donald Trump’s opposition toward Israel annexing the West Bank.

Nuclear talks with the United States allowed Tehran to gauge Washington’s seriousness and showed enough consensus to continue on the diplomatic track, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said yesterday.

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient injuries

Maxwell, 64, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, was subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee to discuss her relations with Epstein

The outcome is the LDP's best in its history and allows Japan's first woman prime minister to stamp her mark on the country of 123 million people over the next four years

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was scrambling to shore up his premiership yesterday, as another top aide quit and he prepared to face lawmakers furious that his government has become embroiled in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

The International Organization for Migration said the boat overturned north of Zuwara on Friday

Machado claimed that her close ally had been "kidnapped" in the capital Caracas by armed men "dressed in civilian clothes" who took him away by force

A glitch with an alarm in January forced the suspension of its first restart since the 2011 Fukushima disaster

Washington's focus is on Zambia, Guinea and Democratic Republic of Congo.

Maxwell, currently serving 20 years in prison for trafficking girls to the disgraced financier Epstein, will face questions from prison via videolink

Rights groups condemned a 20-year prison term handed to Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai on Monday, calling it "effectively a death sentence" and a grave injustice.

The outcome gives Japan's first female premier a strong mandate to implement her conservative agenda

At least 51 people have been kidnapped and three killed in attacks over the past three days in four different villages in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna State, security forces said Saturday.

Thais voted yesterday in an election where progressive reformists were the runaway opinion poll leaders but the incumbent conservative prime minister is expected to end up retaining his position, extending the country’s political stand-off.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s party was set to secure a big majority in Japan’s lower house in an election yesterday, public broadcaster NHK forecast, based on exit polls.

Iran will never surrender the right to enrich uranium, even if war “is imposed on us”, its foreign minister said yesterday, defying pressure from Washington.