MONDAY, 19 JANUARY 2026, 12:59
A South Korean court has sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison, the first verdict in eight criminal trials for allegations that include his 2024 martial law decree.
At least 19 people are now believed to have died in recent weeks in northern South Africa during floods.
A senior UN official warned that threats of military action against Iran, like those made by US President Donald Trump, increased “volatility” in the protest-torn country.
President Museveni has about 76% of the vote with results in from nearly half of all polling stations.
The woman, who accused Oren and Alon Alexander of sexual assault, was found dead in Sydney late last year.
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to take over her country after the U.S. ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she “presented” her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Donald Trump, in a bid to win over the US president who had sidelined her since overthrowing Nicolas Maduro.
Rachel Bloor had assumed the heavy weight on her chest was her dog.
The former volunteers, who were facing lengthy jail terms, worked for an NGO that rescued asylum-seekers.
Palestinians say they’re suffering as they wait for progress in next phase of U.S.-backed ceasefire.
Uganda votes amid an internet blackout and heavy military deployment as President Yoweri Museveni seeks a seventh term, extending his four-decade grip on power
Libyan authorities have uncovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 21 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, local media reported on Thursday.
A US-backed plan to end the war in Gaza has entered its second phase despite unresolved disputes between Israel and Hamas over alleged ceasefire violations and issues unaddressed in the first stage.
At least four people are injured and there are also reports of extensive damage to nearby buildings, he local safety body says.
The collapse of a highway construction crane killed two people near Bangkok, with a Thai minister saying the building firm was also involved in a crane failure the day before that left 32 dead.
The nationwide protests challenging Iran’s theocracy appear increasingly smothered a week after authorities shut the country off from the world and escalated a bloody crackdown.
As the US announces the next of its plan to end the war, serious obstacles mean implementation will be difficult.
Four astronauts who left the International Space Station (ISS) a month early due to one of the crew members falling ill have returned to Earth on Thursday.
Troops from several European countries, including France, Germany, Norway and Sweden, are arriving in Greenland after talks between Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. on Wednesday highlighted disagreement.
Ugandans are voting in a tense presidential election as 81-year-old President Yoweri Museveni seeks to extend his four-decade rule amid an internet shutdown and heavy military deployment.
Presidents James Monroe and Theodore Roosevelt helped shape a policy that rationalizes U.S. intervention in Latin America and elsewhere. But Trump has brought that idea to a whole new level.