As Iran returned to uneasy calm after a wave of protests that drew a harsh crackdown, a senior hard-line cleric called Friday for the death penalty for detained demonstrators and directly threatened U.

Russian attacks are hitting Ukrainian energy infrastructure hard, leaving residents without power and heat in one of the coldest winters of the war to date.

A South Korean court on Friday sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison on charges including obstructing his arrest, marking the first criminal verdict in a series of cases stemming from his actions during the December 2024 martial law crisis.

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said China has become a more predictable partner to deal with than the U.S., the country's neighbor and longtime ally.​

With one puff of a cigarette, a woman in Canada became a global symbol of defiance against Iran's bloody crackdown on dissent — and the world saw the flame. A video that has gone viral in recent days shows the woman — who described herself as an Iranian refugee — snapping open a lighter and setting the flame to a photo she holds.

Social media companies have revoked access to about 4.7 million accounts identified as belonging to children in Australia

The president also tapped a U.S. general to lead an international peacekeeping force that will be deployed to disarm Hamas and occupy Gaza.

Myanmar insisted Friday that its deadly military campaign against the Rohingya ethnic minority was a legitimate counter-terrorism operation and did not amount to genocide, as it defended itself at the top United Nations court against an allegation of breaching the genocide convention.