Iran seized a foreign oil tanker as it traveled the strategic Strait of Hormuz carrying some 25,000 barrels of smuggled fuel, state media said.

North Korea's state media released photos Thursday of what it said was the hull of a nuclear submarine. Its leader denounced South Korea's plans to build its own subs as "an offensive act."

Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an exercise that critics say will neither restore the country's fragile democracy undone by a 2021 army takeover,

Tarique Rahman returned to Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka on Thursday, ending a 17-year exile in Britain, and is favored to become prime minister.

Poland scrambled fighter jets on Christmas morning after detecting a Russian reconnaissance aircraft near its airspace over the Baltic Sea.

Fourteen people were injured in a stabbing attack in a factory in central Japan in which an unspecified liquid was also sprayed, authorities said.

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro endorsed his son Flavio's 2026 presidential bid on Thursday (December 26) in a statement from a hospital where he underwent a scheduled hernia operation that doctors said went smoothly.

South Korea’s government says it plans to end the waning foreign adoptions of Korean children SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea’s government said it plans to end its waning foreign adoptions of Korean children,