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South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul (R) and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shake hands during a joint press conference following their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul on January 6, 2025. (Photo [Read More…]

Security forces and emergency workers respond to the scene of a shooting attack that targeted a bus and other vehicles on January 6, 2025 in the Palestinian village of Al-Funduq, West Bank. Three people were [Read More…]

Yevhenii Vasyliev/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Ukrainian forces on Sunday launched a new offensive inside Russia’s western Kursk border region, going on the attack with substantial forces according to reports from Russian [Read More…]

Philip Fong via Getty Images (SEOUL) — Thousands of South Korean citizens were gathering on Sunday near impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol’s residence a day before an arrest warrant for him expires. Protesters from both [Read More…]

Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country. The Israel Defense Forces [Read More…]

Hakan Nural/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — A child who had been missing for five days was found alive this week in a vast game park inhabited by big cats and other wild animals in northern [Read More…]

Members from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) participate in a protest against impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on January 03, 2025 in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images) (SEOUL, South Korea) [Read More…]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it’s happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes intensified by a warming planet and drought-fueled wildfires are destroying [Read More…]

Christian Bruna/Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukraine stopped the flow of Russian natural gas through its territory to Europe at 7 a.m. on Wednesday, as a long-held deal expired, Kyiv officials said. “We stopped the transit [Read More…]

Yan Dobronosov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (LONDON) — One person was killed and least six others, including a pregnant woman, were injured in Kyiv as Russia launched more than 100 drones in an overnight [Read More…]

Saeed Khan via Getty Images (LONDON) — Happy 2025! In some parts of the world, anyway. The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first country to ring in 2025, with its 133,500 citizens celebrating [Read More…]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (DURANGO, Mexico) — Four family members, including three Americans, were shot in an attack in Durango, Mexico, that left three of the four relatives dead, officials said. The three adults were all [Read More…]

Meiramgul Kussainova/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Azerbaijani authorities investigating last week’s Azerbaijan Airlines crash in Kazakhstan are probing the “disturbing” possibility that Russian air traffic controllers may have directed the damaged plane out over the [Read More…]

DECEMBER 30: Palestinians taking shelter in tent camps are battling harsh weather conditions as heavy rainfall has flooded their tents on December 30, 2024 in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. The ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza are [Read More…]

Saeed Khan via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first country to ring in 2025, with its 133,500 citizens celebrating the new year at 5 a.m. ET on Tuesday. [Read More…]

SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images (SEOUL) — A team of U.S. investigators arrived in South Korea to assist local aviation officials as they comb the wreckage of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft that crashed [Read More…]

Seongjoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images (SEOUL) — A 33-year-old flight attendant, one of just two survivors of the Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea that killed 179 people, is awake and talking to medical staff, according [Read More…]

Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty Images (SEOUL and LONDON) — The two survivors of South Korea’s deadliest plane crash in decades were recovering at separate hospitals in Seoul on Monday, as investigators began far-reaching probes into both [Read More…]

South Korean Presidential Office via Getty Images (SEOUL) — South Korean investigators are seeking an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived imposition of martial law, according to the Yonhap news agency. [Read More…]

DECEMBER 30: Palestinians taking shelter in tent camps are battling harsh weather conditions as heavy rainfall has flooded their tents on December 30, 2024 in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. The ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza are [Read More…]