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South Korean lawmakers approve special investigations into martial law and Yoon’s wife
South Korea’s liberal-led legislature overwhelmingly passed bills Thursday to launch special investigations into former ...
Asian shares trade mixed after Wall Street’s rally stalls on U.S. economic data
Asian shares were mixed on Thursday, as Wall Street’s big recent rally lost some momentum following a pair of potentially ...
India is preparing to launch its delayed census, including controversial questions about caste
India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 years will be ...
NATO set to approve new military purchases as part of a major defense spending hike
NATO defense ministers are set Thursday to approve plans to buy more weapons and military equipment to better defend Europe, ...
New Zealand Parliament votes for record suspensions of 3 lawmakers who performed Māori haka
New Zealand legislators voted Thursday to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori ...
Russian strike kills 5, including 1 year old, hours after Trump calls Putin
At least five people, including a one-year-old child, were killed in a Russian drone strike on the northern Ukrainian city of ...
China issues warrants for alleged Taiwanese hackers and bans a business for pro-independence links
China issued warrants Thursday for 20 Taiwanese people it said carried out hacking missions in the Chinese mainland on behalf of the island’s ruling party, while ...
Election of Mexico’s first Indigenous Supreme Court justice in 170 years raises hope and skepticism
In his campaign for Mexico’s Supreme Court, Hugo Aguilar sent a simple message: He would be the one to finally give ...
Trump promised to welcome more foreign students. Now, they feel targeted on all fronts
To attract the brightest minds to America, President Donald Trump proposed a novel idea while campaigning: If elected, he ...
New German leader plans to discuss Ukraine and trade with Trump in Oval Office visit
Germany’s new leader is meeting President Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday as he works to keep the U.S. on board with ...
Schumer renames Trump megabill the ‘Well, We’re All Going to Die Act’
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) gave a new name to the “big, beautiful bill” on Wednesday, calling it the “Well ...
Biden calls claims he wasn’t making decisions in White House ‘ridiculous and false’
Former President Biden on Wednesday rebuked claims from President Trump and other Republicans that he was not the one making ...