The United States seized another oil tanker overnight in the Caribbean Sea, the fifth vessel taken in recent weeks as the Trump Administration intensifies a sweeping effort to choke off Venezuela’s oil exports and assert control over a maritime trade it says is riddled with sanctions evaders.

Yemen's Southern Transitional Council and its institutions will be dismantled effective Friday, the group's secretary-general said after weeks of unrest in southern areas and a day after its leader fled to the United Arab Emirates.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that it had struck western Ukraine with a nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile, an ominous warning by President Vladimi

Prosecutors on Friday detained the owner of a Swiss bar where a deadly New Year's Day fire killed 40 people and injured 116 others, according to officials. Jacques Moretti was placed in pre-trial detention after a meeting with prosecutors in Sion,

Six pilot whales are dead and 15 others are stranded on New Zealand's South Island, and volunteers are furiously working to save them.

The U.N. Human Rights Office said Friday that a presidential election in Uganda next week would be “marked by widespread repression and intimidation” against the opposition and others. Ugandan authorities in the East African country have used lawfare,

A day after Venezuela’s government pledged to free a “significant number” of prisoners, a local human rights group says only eight people had been released.

China, Russia, and Iran arrived for joint naval exercises "Will for Peace 2026" off South Africa's coast on Friday (January 9), a move South Africa described as bolstering BRICS Plus maritime cooperation.