BEIJING — Authorities in southern China said Thursday that 39 people died in flooding after a tropical storm dumped heavy rainfall, as the country's east coast and Taiwan prepared for a typhoon expected to make landfall in the coming days.
As thousands of Palestinian students complete their final high school exams this summer and look ahead to university, 17-year-old Nada Bani Odeh and 16-year-old Ola Qutaishat are spending these same weeks behind bars in Israel’s Damon Prison, far from classrooms, textbooks and the futures they had been preparing for.
Iran has summoned the British ambassador to Tehran to protest what it called "baseless accusations", state media said on Thursday, after a London court jailed two people for a knife attack it said was carried out at Iran's behest.
The Senate impeachment court has issued a subpoena on Zuleika Lopez, the chief of staff of Vice President Sara Duterte. She was ordered to appear as a witness in the impeachment trial of the Vice President next week. This is in connection with charges that Duterte made grave threats against President Marcos, the Fir…
A special court in Kazakhstan has overturned its earlier ruling allowing Ukraine’s state oil and gas company Naftogaz to collect a $1.4 billion international arbitration award from Russia’s Gazprom.
Iran's foreign ministry has denounced US strikes on the country, which it said targeted civilian infrastructure including railway bridges, as a "gross war crime".
President Isaac Herzog met Thursday with Central Elections Committee chairman Justice Noam Sohlberg and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) head David Zini, issuing a joint warning that internal and foreign actors were seeking to undermine the integrity of Israel’s upcoming election.
SEOUL — South Korea's highest court upheld ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol's seven-year prison sentence on Thursday over crimes tied to his botched 2024 martial law declaration and its chaotic aftermath.
SEOUL, July 9 (Yonhap) -- Police said Thursday they will launch a task force dedicated to examining past investigations amid a growing controversy over the alleged leak of investigative details by local police investigators in a recent high-profile murder case.
SEOUL, July 9 (Yonhap) -- Park Jong-joon, former chief of the Presidential Security Service (PSS), and Kim Seong-hoon, its former deputy chief, were sentenced to prison Thursday for blocking investigators from executing a warrant to detain former President Yoon Suk Yeol last year.
Despite complaints from regional governments, the controversial mass regularisation process will not be passed up the legal chain to an EU court - for now.
Independent Rep. Han Dong-hoon on Thursday rejected People Power Party Rep. Ahn Cheol-soo’s court testimony that he had called People Power Party lawmakers to the party headquarters, not the National Assembly, on Dec. 3, 2024, when martial law was declared by former President Yoon Suk Yeol.
A TV screen shows an image of former South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, July 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
A Haifa couple was sentenced to prison on Wednesday for robbing an 80-year-old woman whom they'd first met in their apartment building's bomb shelter in 2024.