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A South Korean legislative push to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived imposition of martial law fell through on Saturday after most lawmakers from his conservative governing party boycotted the vote.

After a massive cyberattack on U.S. telecom firms and dozens of countries by a hacker group backed by China, security experts are worried about communication networks and even the privacy of text messaging for individual citizens.

Vietnamese billionaire Truong My Lan was recently sentenced to death for one of the biggest bank frauds in history. She just lost her appeal, but her fate isn't sealed yet. Andrew Chang explains how she still might avoid the death penalty and what it will cost her.

Mary McGee, a pioneering racer and the first woman in the U.S. to race a motorcycle, has died at the age of 87.

A U.S. federal appeals court panel on Friday unanimously upheld a law that could lead to a ban of TikTok in a few short months, handing a resounding defeat to the popular social media platform as it fights for its survival in the U.S.

A Pennsylvania coroner's office said Friday that investigators believe they have located the body of a woman who was last seen four days earlier near a sinkhole above a shuttered coal mine.

Rebel forces pushed their offensive in Syria further south early Friday, closing in on the city of Homs, as humanitarian groups sounded the alarm on the escalating conditions for civilians trapped in the fighting.

A top Romanian court on Friday annulled the first round of the country's presidential election, days after allegations that Russia ran a co-ordinated social media campaign to promote the far-right outsider who won the first round.

After years of lying dormant, the civil war in Syria is suddenly active again. A coalition of rebel forces have dealt stunning setbacks to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Now, with his final strongholds under threat, the question is whether his weakened allies will step up to save him.

Three mountain climbers — one from Canada and two from the U.S. — missing for five days on Aoraki, New Zealand's tallest peak, are believed to have died in a fall, local authorities said Friday.

The gunman who killed the CEO of one of the largest U.S. health insurance companies in front of midtown Manhattan surveillance cameras remained free on Thursday from the dragnet thrown by the nation's largest police department.

Palestinians were digging through burnt debris searching for bodies Thursday after some 20 people were killed a day earlier in an Israeli strike that set ablaze tents sheltering displaced families in a designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza. 

Congo's health minister said Thursday the government is on alert over a flu-like disease that in recent weeks killed dozens of people.

A new report from Amnesty International found that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in its nearly 14-month-long deadly campaign in Gaza that has killed more than 44,000 people and displaced most of the enclave’s population.

Syrian rebels ousted pro-government forces from Hama on Thursday, bringing the insurgents a major new victory after a lightning advance across northern Syria and dealing a new blow to President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies.

South Korea's parliament introduced a motion on Thursday to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over a botched attempt to impose martial law, while the defence minister blamed for advising the move and ordering troops to the parliament resigned.

The highest court in the United States is set to decide whether a statewide ban in Tennessee on gender-affirming medical care for minors is unconstitutional. The landmark case could have major consequences for transgender people across the country.

The Israeli military said on Wednesday it had retrieved the body of Itay Svirsky, who was taken hostage on Oct. 7, 2023, and then killed in Hamas captivity, according to a statement from the Israeli military.