South Korea has paid tribute to wartime Korean forced laborers at Japan’s Sado Island Gold Mines in a memorial ceremony. The event on Monday came a day after Seoul boycotted a similar event organized by Japan.
Electoral data shows a far-right populist leads in Romania’s presidential election and will likely face leftist Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu in a runoff in two weeks.
The Navy’s issuance on Friday of a final environmental assessment that found no significant impact clears the way for a project that will “improve energy security, strategic flexibility, and energy resiliency at JBPHH and the island of Oahu,” the service said in a news release that day.
Israel said Sunday that the body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found after he was killed in what it described as a “heinous antisemitic terror incident.”
The deployment of military troops to the southwestern border is nothing new. But President-elect Donald Trump’s hint this past week that he may use armed forces to carry out mass deportations could veer into new territory.
The USS Boxer and the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit returned to their respective homeports in San Diego and Camp Pendleton, Calif., after a deployment to the U.S. 7th and 3rd Fleet areas of operations. More than 2,500 sailors and Marines participated in joint and combined exercises in the Indo-Pacific.
A growing number of Israeli reservists are choosing not to report for duty, putting further strain on an overextended military amid an ever-widening war.
Forecasters through the U.S. issued warnings that another round of winter weather could complicate travel leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday, while California and Washington state continue to recover from storm damage and power outages.
The USS Hampton arrived at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, on Thursday for scheduled maintenance and system upgrades to ensure Navy mission-readiness before returning to the fleet.
When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a U.N.-backed mission earlier this year to tackle gang violence, hopes were high. But the crisis has only deepened since the international policing contingent arrived.
The measure for debt forgiveness — the final version appeared on a government website Saturday — underscores Russia’s needs for military personnel in the nearly 3-year war, even as it fired last week a new intermediate-range ballistic missile.
Hezbollah fired at least 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel on Sunday, wounding seven people in the militant group’s heaviest barrage in several days, in response to deadly Israeli strikes in Beirut while negotiators pressed on with cease-fire efforts to halt the all-out war.
Cmdr. Charles Diehl has been relieved of his duties as commander of Airborne Command and Control Squadron VAW-115,an E-2 Hawkeye squadron, because of a loss of confidence in his ability to lead.
The harmless space rock will peel away on Monday, overcome by the stronger tug of the sun’s gravity. But it will zip closer for a quick visit in January.
The U.S. Air Force says a number of small drones were detected last week around three bases in eastern England that are used by American forces.
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte says she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed.
Lebanese officials say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 20 people and injured dozens in central Beirut, as the once-rare attacks on the heart of Lebanon’s capital continue without warning.
This past week has seen the most significant escalation in hostilities Ukraine has witnessed since Russia’s full-scale invasion and marks a new chapter in the nearly three-year war.
President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his agriculture secretary, the last of his picks to lead executive agencies and another choice from within his established circle of advisers and allies.