Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, speaks during a meeting with military commanders in Tehran on Sunday.Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP Updated at 11:30 a.m. ET The United States and Iran remain at odds over what comes next in their standoff over Iran's nuclear ambitions. Iran's supreme ...

People make three-finger salutes during an anti-coup march on Saturday in Yangon, Myanmar.Getty Images | Getty Images Days after a coup and the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and other elected leaders, the military in Myanmar is moving to strangle free speech by blocking access to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram ...

Alexei Navalny wore a dark sweatshirt and a wry smile as he stood in a glass box in a Moscow courtroom this week and was sentenced to two years and eight months in a prison colony for failing to keep a parole appointment. "This is how it works," Navalny said ...

The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, by Sonia FaleiroGrove Press Two young, inseparable teenagers, called Padma and Lalli, were found hanging side by side from a mango tree in a small village in India in May 2014. Though many have heard of the story, India law prevents the identities of ...

Vehicles make their way on a road in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Feb. 1.AP Myanmar's economy could take a significant hit following this week's military coup, analysts say, as the U.S. mulls fresh sanctions and foreign investors appear rattled — potentially putting billions of dollars' worth of business investments at risk for ...

A former typist and secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp in Poland is charged with being complicit in mass murder. The camp, seen here in 2016, has become a museum.Michal Fludra | Getty Images German prosecutors have filed charges against a 95-year-old woman they say was complicit in the murder ...

The Polish Consulate in St. Petersburg, Russia, is pictured in 2015. Russia said on Friday it had expelled diplomats from Poland, Germany and Sweden over their alleged participation in a pro-Navalny demonstration.Dmitry Lovetsky | AP Russia said on Friday it is expelling diplomats from Sweden, Poland and Germany, alleging they ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X7lCOOrc-0 Lorraine Ololia is 10. She lives in Kampala, Uganda. And she recently came up with a new career goal. A TV show about science, produced by teachers from her junior high school, has inspired her. She's watched an episode on computer programming, another where two young explorers visit her ...

Sergei Smirnov, pictured being detained at a "solo protest" in May 2020, was sentenced to 25 days in jail on Wednesday for allegedly calling on people to protest through a Twitter repost.Vladimir Gerdo | Vladimir Gerdo/TASS Russian journalist Sergei Smirnov is set to spend 25 days in jail for sharing ...

President Xi Jinping of China is seen on a CGTN archive program as it plays on a computer monitor in London. The U.K.'s Ofcom says Star China Media Limited, which holds the license for China Global Television Network (CGTN) doesn't have day-to-day editorial control over the channel, which is against ...