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Incident left 4 dead

Opposition demands elimination of legal proceedings brought against Venâncio Mondlane before talks

Report says junta seeks to destroy towns that it cannot control

Court expected to issue ruling by the end of June

Storm arrived in Pacific Northwest earlier this week, killing two people and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands

Scott Bessent is a deficit hawk and worked for Soros Fund Management

Germany says it was sabotage but stops short of accusing Beijing

Executive director of US Cyber Command says Chinese-linked cyber operations are aimed at gaining an advantage in case of a major conflict with the US

Policymakers, activists say despite growing awareness about the link between climate and migration, countries are behind in addressing the issue

Move would expose all of China’s vast array of exports to the U.S. — $427.2 billion worth in 2023 — to higher levies

It’s expected that the new U.S. Trump administration may force Russia and Ukraine to sit down and negotiate. In anticipation of that, both sides escalated their war efforts this past week. We speak with Jim Townsend, adjunct senior fellow in the Center for a New American Security Transatlantic Security Program. The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister and Hamas officials, accusing them of...

Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh confirmed that Russia had indeed launched an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile into Ukraine on November 21. She told reporters that Washington "was notified through nuclear threat reduction channels shortly before the launch."  See the full story here.

The United States has sanctioned Russia’s Gazprombank, the lender built around the country’s gas exporting giant, as well as dozens of other financial institutions. The new measures are expected to further curtail Moscow’s use of the international financial system. See the full story here.   

The U.S. Treasury Department is investigating the relationship between JPMorgan and a hedge fund said to be part of a network overseen by Hosein Shamkhani, the son of Ali Shamkhani, Bloomberg reported. Ali Shamkhani is a longtime close ally of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. See the full story here.

With statistics indicating more of the country's skilled workforce is leaving or planning to leave, accelerating Iran’s longtime “brain drain,” Hosein Simayei Sarraf, the Iranian minister of science, has admitted that "25% of university professors" have emigrated in recent years. Iran’s government has cracked down on professors and students in universities who are suspected of supporting “Women, Life, Freedom” protests.  See the full story here.

Many Chinese nationals are taking advantage of Australian student visas as a means to secure long-term employment. On major Chinese social media platforms, advertisements promoting "half-work, half-study" programs have proliferated, luring so-called "fake students" to Australia in search of work opportunities.   See the full story here.

Four years after the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law, pro-democracy political parties in Hong Kong are facing unprecedented political pressure. Following the sentencing of 45 pro-democracy figures to severe penalties for conspiring to subvert state power, two major pro-Beijing newspapers on Thursday issued strong condemnations of Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy party, the Democratic Party.   Analysts believe this signals that Beijing is issuing a final ultimatum to...

Online threats in North Macedonia, physical attack in Montenegro show dangers female journalists confront, say watchdogs