Category: 4. World

The sun had just risen over Ukraine’s Sumy region when Kyiv’s long-feared special forces unit launched one of the war’s most daring assaults.

Deep behind Russian lines, commandos infiltrated enemy positions, cut off supply lines and…

BANGKOK (AP) — Myint Swe, who became Myanmar’s acting president under controversial circumstances after the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi more than four years…

Japan’s precipitous population decline shows no sign of slowing, with the nation shrinking by more than 900,000 people last year – the biggest annual drop on record, according to government data.

The data, released by the Ministry of Internal…

Editor’s note: This story was updated on Aug. 8 with additional comments from the expert.

Ukraine’s military launched a drone attack on Russia’s Volgograd Oblast overnight on Aug. 7, striking a railway station in the town of Surovikino, regional…

After nearly 700 days of war, the death toll in Gaza has risen to extraordinary levels. Amid heavy bombardment that has turned the territory into a wasteland of rubble and stringent blockades that have led to mass hunger and even starvation, over…

A lead contractor for a company providing security at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s controversial food distribution sites is a member of a Crusader-inspired motorcycle club that touts its opposition to the “radical jihadist…

Over recent months, the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip has turned securing life’s most basic needs — water, food, and safety — into a daily tribulation. For many, even intense efforts will fail to provide a full…