A South Korean court has sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison, the first verdict in eight criminal trials for allegations that include his 2024 martial law decree.

More than 4.7 million social media accounts belonging to Australians under the age of 16 have been removed since the nation's new social media youth ban went into effect last month, Canberra announced Friday.

With one puff of a cigarette, a woman in Canada became a global symbol of defiance against Iran's bloody crackdown on dissent — and the world saw the flame. A video that has gone viral in recent days shows the woman — who described herself as an Iranian refugee — snapping open a lighter and setting the flame to a photo she holds.

Vote counting was underway Friday in Uganda’s tense presidential election, which was held a day earlier amid an internet shutdown, voting delays and complaints by an opposition leader who said some of his polling agents had been detained by the authorities.

By pressing on with the second phase of the ceasefire, Washington and its mediator partners will need to tackle the vexing challenges of disarming Hamas, further Israeli withdrawal tied to the disarmament and deploying an international peacekeeping force.

The remains of 32 Cuban officers killed during a U.S. strike on Venezuela were repatriated to their homeland. The soldiers were part of the security detail of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during the Jan.

Nearly 300 South Korean firefighters were deployed on Friday (January 16) to fight a major fire in a deprived area of the upmarket Gangnam district of southern Seoul, a fire official said. Devastated residents watched their homes burn as the fire tore through a densely packed hillside area known as Guryong Village.

As concerns grow of a potential war between the United States and Iran, experts told Newsweek that the U.S. military has used up parts of its stockpile in recent years but remains “powerful.” The relationship between the United States and Iran,