About 40 passengers on a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak previously disembarked on the South Atlantic island of St. Helena after the first passenger died, Dutch officials said Thursday.

The political terrain remains forbidding, but the president’s crumbling approval ratings and the Iran war’s weight on the economy offer the party an opening.

France’s aircraft carrier strike group is moving south of the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea in preparation for a potential French-British mission in the Strait of Hormuz, French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday.

An appeals court on Thursday reduced former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo's sentence from 23 years to 15 years in prison over his role in former President Yoon Suk Yeol's imposition of martial law.

The war in Iran has left China’s neighbors appealing for help, handing Beijing the kind of sway it has long sought.

Millions of British voters cast their ballots on Thursday in local and regional elections that are expected to deal a huge blow to Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour ​Party and renew questions over his ability to govern.

Pakistan’s military warns it will respond strongly to any attack as it marks the anniversary of last year’s conflict with India. The four-day clash in May 2025 brought the nuclear-armed rivals

The airstrike on the Haret Hreik neighborhood targeted the leader of the Radwan forces, Hezbollah’s elite and battle-hardened fighting unit, Israeli authorities said.