King Charles III has piqued the interest of royal fans by offering tours of private rooms at Balmoral Castle for the first time since its completion.The lucrative tours, taking place between July 1 and Aug. 4, set buyers back £100...
The governor of Russia’s northwestern Murmansk region was stabbed in the stomach after a meeting with local residents, the most dangerous assault on a high-ranking government official in more than a decade.Governor Andrei Chibis,...
(LONDON) — More than 600 British jurists, including three retired judges from the U.K. Supreme Court, are calling on the government to suspend arms sales to Israel, piling pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after the deaths of...
For a few months now, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly invoked the name of the Gaza Strip’s southernmost city: Rafah. His government has relentlessly threatened Hamas—and promised its own public—that it...
Two celebrities in South Korea have had their careers thrown into uncertainty this week over allegations of past school bullying—the latest wave in a yearslong movement to try to address a persistent problem of school violence and...
Taiwanese authorities have yet to estimate how much it will cost to recover from the damage caused by the massive, deadly earthquake that struck the island on Wednesday, which collapsed buildings, felled water towers, and caused landslides...
BANGKOK — Panicked passengers jumped into the sea to escape a raging ferry fire in the Gulf of Thailand early Thursday, and all 108 people on board were safe.The overnight ferry from Surat Thani province was about to arrive at Koh...
Israel’s war on Gaza, which soon enters its sixth month, has done untold damage to the enclave and its people, more than 32,000 of whom have been killed and millions of whom have been displaced. But the damage also extends to Israel’s...
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the east coast of Taiwan on Wednesday morning, leaving nine people dead and at least 946 are injured. The earthquake was the largest to hit the island in a quarter century, and officials say that...
Tens of thousands of protesters in Israel are pushing for the release of hostages in Gaza, spilling into the streets this week with some demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu step down and call elections. Public anger over...
Starvation may well be replacing bombs as the gravest danger in Gaza. But the killing on Monday of seven aid workers demonstrates that the two lethalities can combine to devastating effect. The Israeli government called the deaths...
When the Israeli military fired three missiles on a humanitarian convoy run by the leading international charity World Central Kitchen—killing seven aid workers of whom most were foreign nationals—it elicited a horrified global...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan was struck Wednesday by its most powerful earthquake in a quarter of a century. At least nine people were killed and hundreds injured, buildings and highways damaged and dozens of workers at quarries stranded.Taiwan...
KYIV — Ukraine on Wednesday lowered the Military conscription age from 27 to 25 in an effort to replenish its depleted ranks after more than two years of war following Russia’s full-scale invasion.The new mobilization law came...
Hong Kong no longer requires transgender people to undergo full gender-affirming surgery to change their legal gender markers in their IDs, more than a year after the Chinese enclave’s top court called the requirement unconstitutional.The...
Thailand’s Constitutional Court has accepted a Petition to disband the nation’s largest opposition party that was previously found guilty of breaching the charter over efforts to amend the nation’s stringent royal defamation...
South Korea—the world’s poster child for demographic decline—has spent some $280 billion over the past 18 years to address its diminishing birth rate, which recently dropped to a new record-low of 0.72 babies per woman in a lifetime....
HUALIEN, Taiwan — The strongest earthquake in a quarter-century rocked Taiwan during the morning rush hour Wednesday, killing nine people, sending others scrambling out the windows of damaged buildings and halting train service throughout...
U.S. officials on Tuesday scrambled to distance themselves from a series of Israeli Military actions in Syria and Gaza that threaten to escalate hostilities in the region and further draw America into the coNFLict.Pentagon officials...
When more than two dozen opposition parties in India announced they would band together as the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (or INDIA) last June, critics of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party were hopeful they could...
The World Central Kitchen (WCK)—an American nonprofit group founded by Celebrity chef José Andrés to feed people in need during global coNFLicts and disasters—said it was “devastated” to confirm that seven members of its...
