Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner Joshua Wong’s time in prison has been extended after a court Thursday meted out a 10-year sentence over a second national security conviction.

Passengers recounted landing at a military base and being subjected to security checks and travel delays after threats that turned out to be hoaxes affected planes in Italy, Poland, Spain.

President Donald Trump's administration held secret talks with Iran on deporting Iranians even as the war there dragged on, court documents obtained by The Associated Press show.The court documents unsealed Thursday show the Republican administration as recently as mid-October said it had plans to deport the Iranians through an unnamed third country,

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government unveiled a sweeping budget Thursday aimed at making Canada less dependent on the United States as President Donald Trump’s trade war reshapes the longtime allies’ economic relationship.

Trade union members joined nationwide strikes and demonstrations in Paris to demand higher wages and support the high school protest movement.

Asian fuel oil benchmark prices fell sharply this week as traders priced in higher Middle Eastern crude and fuel supplies, while Democrats' capture of the US Congress eased concerns about ​further escalation of the US-Israeli war with Iran.

A prosecutor described Brand as a ruthless, calculating, manipulative "sexual predator." Brand, 51, denied the charges, saying he had never forced anyone to do something against their will.

A Mexican judge is accused of taking a $2 million bribe in exchange for releasing a suspected Canadian drug trafficker from custody in an investigation into a billion-dollar drug trafficking ring, U.S.