The incident, which received a terse statement from Chinese officials, added to a series of assaults on foreigners in China in recent months. Around the same time, a Chinese aircraft carrier passed between two Japanese islands early on Wednesday morning.

The South Dakota Supreme Court has ordered a six-month suspension of former state Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg’s law license, citing actions he took after a deadly accident with a pedestrian that precipitated his political downfall.

Kaleth O. Wright has an aura of celebrity that has persisted since he retired in 2020. “I certainly never thought I would be important enough to have an entire school named after me,” he said.

One of the candidates challenging Tunisian President Kais Saied in the country’s presidential election next month has been sentenced to prison on fraud charges that his attorney decried as politically motivated.

With maps and graphics flashing on movie theater-sized screens, top U.S. Army commanders monitored in real time a scenario of all-out ground war with Russia as new NATO defense plans were put into operation for the first time.

Dozens of hoax threats came shortly after the city was thrust into the national spotlight when unsupported claims that Haitian immigrants were eating pets went viral, amplified by the Donald Trump-JD Vance Republican presidential ticket.

Journalists at a news site that covers the Haitian community in the United States say they’ve been harassed and intimidated with racist messages for covering a fake story about immigrants eating the pets of people in an Ohio town.

The leader of Hezbollah vowed Thursday to keep up daily strikes on Israel despite this week’s deadly sabotage of its members’ communication devices, and said Israelis displaced from homes near the Lebanon border because of the fighting would not be able to return until the war in Gaza ends.

The success of global TV shows like Netflix’s “Squid Game” has made international productions a worthwhile bet for studios. At the same time, it’s also a key area of interest for the U.S. State Department as it looks for ways to project soft power.

All California law enforcement agencies are required by state law to report annually on the acquisition and use of weapons characterized as “military equipment.” No University of California campus receives equipment from the U.S. Department of Defense.

European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday pledged billions of euros in aid for Central European countries that suffered enormous damage to infrastructure and housing during the massive flooding that has so far claimed 24 lives in the region.

The scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage testified Thursday that the sub had malfunctioned just prior to the fatal dive.

The remotely triggered explosions that hit pagers and walkie-talkies carried by Hezbollah members this week made for an eerie and shocking spectacle. Analysts say Hezbollah will be able to regroup militarily and find communications workarounds, but the psychological effects will likely run deep.

The House on Wednesday rejected a plan to fund the government for six months, cranking up tensions around a fast-approaching government shutdown deadline.

Sailors who died on duty throughout the Navy in the past year were remembered at Yokosuka Naval Base.

USS San Diego replaces the USS Green Bay at Sasebo Naval Base.

South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to supply some 200,000 Korean children to parents overseas, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found.

Severe rains bucketed down on central Europe, Africa, Shanghai and the U.S. Carolinas this week, underscoring the extreme ways in which climate change is altering the weather.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has dismissed allegations from his country’s disgraced ex-security chief — jailed in the United States and facing a possible life sentence for corruption — that he has links to drug cartels.