A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Alaska’s Skwentna region on Friday, the United States Geological Survey. The quake was 200 meters (700 feet) deep, it said.
China’s attempt to implement traffic control measures on shipping heading into the Taiwan Strait during Typhoon Dolphin is “ridiculous”, Taipei said, adding that Beijing has no right to restrict access
Russian strikes killed three people, including a child, in the region surrounding capital Kyiv on Saturday, an official said. Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kyiv regional administration, said Russian strikes
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Friday it was moving to dismiss an insider trading lawsuit against Terren Peizer, a former healthcare executive who was convicted of insider
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te oversaw coastal strike drills on Saturday during annual war games, boarding a fast attack missile boat and watching the deployment of low-flying attack drones to simulate
Nepali rescue workers have spotted five bodies at a site where the same number of climbers went missing last year, officials said on Saturday. Three foreign climbers — an Italian
UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg on Friday warned of a growing risk of renewed large-scale conflict in Yemen amid escalating attacks by the Houthi group against Saudi tankers
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group for Iraq’s pro-Iranian militias, said on Friday it had postponed a planned retaliation against U.S. and Saudi forces.A statement by the group
Hungary is lifting emergency energy-saving measures introduced during an extreme heatwave and severe drought, after slightly cooler weather eased pressure on the country’s power system, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said
Women and children continue to bear a disproportionate share of the Ebola outbreak in the eastern province of Ituri in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UN humanitarians said