North Korean leader Kim Jong Un abruptly dismissed a vice premier during a factory inspection, state media reported Tuesday, shortly ahead of a key ruling party congress.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said that it asked for help from a U.S. coalition base but that it "did not intervene, despite repeated calls for intervention."

Dozens of beaches in eastern Australia were closed on Tuesday, after four shark attacks in a span of 48 hours, a spree that the head of a lifeguard group described as unprecedented. On Tuesday morning,

Spanish police said Monday that at least 39 people are confirmed dead in a high-speed rail collision the previous night in the south of the country when the tail end of a train jumped the track, causing another train speeding past in the opposite direction to derail.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that Russia has launched more than 300 drones and missiles in a nighttime attack on Ukraine's power grid. The assault knocked out heating to more

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum quelled concerns on Monday about two recent movements of the U.S. military in the vicinity of Mexico that have the country on edge since the attack on Venezuela. On Friday,

Gunmen have abducted more than 150 worshippers in simultaneous attacks on three churches in northwest Nigeria ABUJA, Nigeria -- Gunmen abducted more than 150 worshippers in simultaneous attacks on three separate churches in northwest Nigeria,

U.S. Navy veteran Charles Wayne Zimmerman was sentenced to 5 years in Russian prison after allegedly failing to declare a firearm oboard his yacht in Sochi port.