China’s People’s Liberation Army is staging a second day of large-scale military drills around Taiwan.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia and U.S. futures are flat after stocks slipped on Wall Street.

Saudi Arabia says it bombed Yemen’s port city of Mukalla over a shipment of weapons for a separatist force there that arrived from the United Arab Emirates.

Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has died at 80, her political party has announced Tuesday.

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the hottest years ever recorded.

Britons ranging from Hollywood stars Idris Elba and Cynthia Erivo to a 102-year-old judo instructor have been named in King Charles III’s New Year’s honors list, an annual tradition that recognizes people for their contributions to U.K. public life.

A group of Peruvian shamans gathered in front of the sea in the Miraflores district of Peru’s capital city to carry out an annual ritual in which they make predictions for the upcoming year.

President Donald Trump has indicated that the U.S. has “hit” a dock facility along a shore as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says 13 people died and another 98 people were injured when a train derailed on a rail line connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico.

Iran is seeing its biggest protests in three years after the currency plunged to a record low against the dollar.

The United States is offering Ukraine security guarantees for 15 years as part of a proposed peace plan.

Foreign ministers from Cambodia and Thailand have convened with their Chinese counterpart to discuss the border dispute between the two Southeast Asian countries.

The United States has announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump continues to slash U.S. foreign assistance funding.

President Donald Trump is warning Iran against reconstituting its nuclear program.

Stocks slipped on Wall Street, while crude oil prices rose and gold and silver prices pulled back after recent sharp gains.

The Chinese military says it dispatched air, navy and missile units for a second day to conduct joint live-fire drills around Taiwan to warn against what it calls separatist and “external interference” forces.

Winter rain has lashed the Gaza Strip and flooded camps with ankle-deep puddles as Palestinians displaced by war try to stay dry in fraying tents.

The moon and sun share top billing in 2026.

Protesting university students in Serbia have collected signatures throughout the country for their request for an early parliamentary election.

Brigitte Bardot, who has died at 91, often said that the hounding she received from the world's press in her years as a sex symbol of the 1960s made her identify with hunted and abused animals.

At least four people have been killed and dozens wounded in clashes on Syria’s coast.

Top diplomats from Thailand and Cambodia have started talks in China to address their border dispute.

French 1960s sex symbol Brigitte Bardot has died at age 91.

The Central African Republic voted on Sunday to elect a new president and federal lawmakers.

Guineans were voting to elect a new president in the country’s first election since a 2021 coup.

President Donald Trump says Ukraine and Russia are “closer than ever before” to a peace deal, but he acknowledges that negotiations could still break down and leave the war dragging on for years.

Voters in Myanmar have voted in the first phase of the country’s general election.

Barefoot children played on chilly sand as Gaza’s thousands of displaced people prepared threadbare tents for another round of winter rain.

A Brazilian judge has issued house arrest orders for 10 people involved in a plot to keep former President Jair Bolsonaro in power after his 2022 election loss.

Hundreds of mourners have gathered outside a mosque in Homs, Syria, after a bombing killed eight people and wounded 18.

Thailand and Cambodia have signed a ceasefire agreement to end weeks of fighting over border disputes.

Millions of Afghans are struggling as international aid cuts sever a lifeline many relied on for food and heating.

Venezuelan migrants transferred to a prison in El Salvador by the U.S. government are demanding justice.

Perry Archangelo Bamonte, longtime guitarist and keyboardist for the influential goth band The Cure, has died.

A U.S. airstrike that targeted an alleged camp of the Islamic State group in Nigeria has caused panic in the village of Jabo, close to where the strike hit.

Cambodia says that Thailand hit a site in the country's northwest with an airstrike on Saturday even as the two sides pursue talks to end clashes.

Police say that two people have been killed and at least two more injured in northern Israel in a car-ramming and stabbing attack by a Palestinian man.

A bombing at a mosque in Homs, Syria, during Friday prayers has killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that he will meet on Sunday with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida.

Separatists in southern Yemen are accusing Saudi Arabia of targeting their forces with airstrikes.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and must pay 13.5 billion ringgit ($3.3 billion) for his role in the 1MDB corruption scandal.

South Korea’s government says it plans to end the waning foreign adoptions of Korean children.

The United States airstrikes targeting militants affiliated with the Islamic State group in northwestern Nigeria are a major escalation of an offensive that Nigeria’s overstretched military has struggled with for years.

Stocks closed slightly lower as investors returned from the Christmas holiday.

Japan’s Cabinet has approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen for the coming year.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. launched a deadly strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country's government of failing to rein in the persecution of Christians.

Mariela Gómez and thousands of Venezuelan immigrants have faced a challenging Christmas after Donald Trump returned to the White House in January.

The Kremlin is in talks with French authorities about French scholar Laurent Vinatier, who is serving a three-year sentence in Russia and reportedly faces new espionage charges.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's family says he's underwent double hernia surgery at a hospital in the country's capital.

Pope Leo XIV, during his first Christmas Day message, has urged the faithful to shed indifference toward those who are suffering.

The son of a former Bangladesh prime minister has returned to the country after more than 17 years in exile.

Asian shares are mixed in thin holiday trading, with most markets in the region and elsewhere closed for Christmas.

Saudi Arabia has called on separatists in southern Yemen to withdraw from two governorates they now hold.

King Charles III has urged people to focus on kindness instead of conflict in his annual Christmas address.

A bomb has exploded during prayers at a mosque in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing five people.

Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura has won Honduras’ presidential election, according to electoral authorities.

The president of Turkish sports club Fenerbahce has been taken into custody in Istanbul as part of a drug investigation involving entertainment and media figures.

An explosive device has detonated in Gaza and wounded one Israeli soldier, prompting Israel to accuse Hamas of violating the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

Families in north-central Nigeria have joyfully reunited with schoolchildren held for a month after a mass abduction.

On Christmas Eve, thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem's Manger Square and other Holy Land sites, after two years of subdued Christmas celebrations because of the war in Gaza.

France, Germany, the European Union and the United Kingdom are hitting out at a U.S. decision to impose travel bans on five Europeans the Trump administration accuses of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American views.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he would be willing to withdraw troops from the country’s eastern industrial heartland as part of a plan to end Russia’s war, if Moscow also pulls back and the area becomes a demilitarized zone monitored by international forces.

French prosecutors say a pro-Russian hacking group has claimed responsibility for a major cyberattack on France’s national postal service.

Russian investigators say that an explosion in Moscow has killed three people, including two police officers.

Search teams in Turkey have recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from a jet crash that killed eight people, including Libya’s military chief.

US stocks drifted higher to more records on a holiday-shortened day of trading.

The State Department is barring five Europeans it accuses of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.

Pope Leo XIV says he's “very disappointed” that his home state of Illinois has approved medically assisted suicide.

Venezuela's National Assembly has approved a measure criminalizing activities that hinder navigation and commerce, like the seizure of oil tankers.

A private jet carrying Libya’s military chief and four other military officers has crashed after takeoff from Turkey’s capital, Ankara, killing all on board.

Venus Williams and Andrea Preti are married.

Yemen’s government and Iran-backed Houthi rebels have agreed to release 2,900 detainees in the largest swap during the 11-year civil war.

France's parliament has approved an emergency bill to prevent a government shutdown next week.

A former close aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that immediately following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, he was ordered to figure out how the premier could evade responsibility for the security breach.

Officials say Russia fired more than 650 drones and three dozen missiles at Ukraine in a large-scale attack that began during the night and stretched into daylight hours Tuesday.

Gaza’s tiny Palestinian Christian community is trying to capture some of the Christmas spirit under a fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.

Wall Street closed at another record following a surprisingly strong report on economic growth over the summer.

The U.S. military says it has conducted another strike against a boat it said was smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one person.

A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration must give legal due process to Venezuelan migrants flown to a notorious prison in El Salvador, either by providing court hearings or returning them to the U.S. Judge James Boasberg ordered the government to come up with a plan within two weeks.

The U.S. government has signed health deals with at least nine African countries.

President Donald Trump has announced a bold plan for the Navy to build a new, large warship that he is calling a “battleship” as part of a larger vision to create a “Golden Fleet.”.

Atmospheric rivers are long and relatively narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky.

Brown University has placed its campus police chief on leave as it reviews security policies following a tragic shooting.

Banksy appears to confirm a new mural in London is his latest work.

President Donald Trump has delivered a new warning to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Chris Rea, the singer-songwriter best known for “Driving Home for Christmas,” has died at 74.

U.S. proposals for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia meet many of Kyiv's demands, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Clashes have erupted between Syrian security forces and Kurdish fighters in the city of Aleppo.

A suspected cyberattack has knocked France’s national postal service and its banking arm offline during the busy Christmas season.

China has announced provisional tariffs of up to 42.7% on dairy products imported from the European Union.

The leaders of Denmark and Greenland are insisting that the U.S. won’t take over Greenland after President Donald Trump announced the appointment of a special envoy to the semi-autonomous territory.

A car bomb has killed a Russian general.

India and New Zealand say they have reached a free trade deal to deepen economic ties amid global trade uncertainties.

NATO-nation intelligence services believe Russia is developing a weapon to target Starlink satellites.

A former Wall Street Journal reporter in Hong Kong has begun testifying against the newspaper.

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street at the start of what’s expected to be a relatively calm holiday week.

Ukraine is rapidly deploying low-cost interceptor drones to counter Russia’s evolving aerial attacks on cities and power infrastructure.

President Donald Trump has announced he is appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry to serve as the U.S. special envoy to Greenland, the vast, semi-autonomous territory of Denmark that Trump has said the U.S. needs to take over.

Thailand’s foreign minister says Thailand and Cambodia will resume talks to work toward a more durable ceasefire along their border.

Australian police documents reveal that a man accused of killing 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach conducted firearms training with his father.