North Korea's second ballistic missile launch in less than a week comes as the U.S. and South Korea prepare for Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises.

Crews are battling a fire and trying to rescue more survivors from a burning passenger ferry in rough seas near the Indonesian tourist island of Bali. Authorities say rescuers and passing vessels

China's strongest typhoon this year battered the capital with bouts of intense rain that flooded key ‌roads and stranded vehicles, while lashing wide swathes of the country, after setting new rainfall records in central and eastern provinces.

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has survived a leadership vote among his party’s lawmakers less than three months before an election.

Robert Gilman, a former U.S. Marine, was released from detention in Russia and was on his way back to the United States on Tuesday.

An overloaded ferry capsized on Zimbabwe 's Lake Kariba on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people and leaving 27 missing, the national disaster management agency said. It said 77 people were rescued and made it to a small island on the lake,

Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened retaliation against Western seizures of Russian commercial vessels, calling them “piracy.”

A Syrian court has sentenced ousted President Bashar Assad and his brother to death in absentia for crimes against humanity during Syria's 14-year conflict. The court in Damascus issued