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Under the proposed new rules, any internet company that refuses to negotiate with publishers or removes news from its platform — as Facebook owner Meta Platforms did in Canada — would be forced to pay regardless, reports said.

A Serbian court on Thursday convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison a young man who gunned down nine people and wounded 12 in one of two back-to-back mass killings last year that shook the Balkan nation.

South Korea's president defended his martial law decree as an act of governance and denied rebellion charges Thursday, rejecting the opposition-led impeachment attempts against him and investigations into last week's move.

Russian troops destroyed or captured several Ukrainian positions near the eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv's military said on Wednesday, as Moscow bears down on the strategic logistics hub that is home to a unique Ukrainian coking mine.

Hannah Kobayashi, the missing Hawaii woman whose disappearance prompted a massive search, has been found safe, the Los Angeles Police Department said Wednesday.

FBI Director Chris Wray will step down from his post early next year, the bureau said on Wednesday, after U.S. president-elect Donald Trump signalled his intent to fire the veteran official and replace him with firebrand Kash Patel.

Israeli strikes in the northern and central Gaza Strip on Wednesday killed at least 38 Palestinians, most of them in Beit Lahiya town in the north of the enclave, medics said.

A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday stopped the parody news site the Onion from buying conspiracy theorist Alex Jones's Infowars website, ruling that a bankruptcy auction did not result in the best possible bids.

In New Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in the world, a first-of-its kind hospital clinic is helping people suffering from both physical and mental impacts of air pollution.

South Korea's previous defence minister was stopped from attempting suicide while in detention over last week's martial law declaration, officials said Wednesday, as President Yoon Suk Yeol's office resisted a police attempt to search the compound.

Thousands of Southern California residents were under evacuation orders and warnings Tuesday as firefighters battled a wind-driven wildfire in Malibu that burned near celebrities' seaside mansions, horse farms and Pepperdine University, where students watched as flames raced down hillsides and the sky turned deep red.

A 29-year-old Canadian woman faces charges in New Zealand after customs authorities say she was caught with 10.2 kilograms of methamphetamine wrapped as if it belonged under a Christmas tree and tucked inside her carry-on baggage at an Auckland airport.

Several European countries that have paused asylum applications from Syria until a clearer picture emerges about the country's political future. But Austria's government went a step further, calling for an "orderly return and deportation program."

The U.S. Justice Department's internal watchdog said on Tuesday that prosecutors' decision to subpoena phone and email records from members of Congress and their staff during president-elect Donald Trump's first term risked a chilling effect on congressional oversight.

Syria’s long civil war has reclaimed global attention after insurgents took control over the weekend and toppled the 50-year Assad regime. Here's rundown of all the key players, including the rebel forces.

An Israeli military incursion into Syria has reached about 25 kilometres southwest of Damascus, according to Syrian security sources, after Israel seized a buffer zone in southern Syria and launched airstrikes on Syrian army and air bases overnight.

Fire crews are trying to contain a fast-moving wildfire in Malibu, Calif., that has forced many area residents to flee, including students from a local university.

A gang leader who controls a key port in Haiti's capital is accused of massacring older people and Vodou religious leaders in his community to avenge his son's death, according to the government and human rights organizations that estimate more than 100 were killed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stand on Tuesday in his long-running trial for alleged corruption, setting off what's expected to be a weekslong spectacle that will draw unwelcome attention to his legal woes as he faces an international arrest warrant for war crimes and the fighting in Gaza continues.