A Chilean-American raised in the United States has filed a criminal complaint against the state of Chile alleging that it engaged in a systematic plan to steal thousands of babies from perceived enemies of the state in the 1970s and 1980s.

European Union regulators have accused social media company Meta Platforms of breaching the bloc's new digital competition rulebook by forcing Facebook and Instagram users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them.

Russia's Defense Ministry says officials have been ordered to prepare a response to U.S. drone flights over the Black Sea, in an apparent warning that Moscow may take forceful action to ward off the American reconnaissance aircraft.

Voters face a choice Friday between hard-line candidates and the little-known Masoud Pezeshkian.

In the months since Hamas' surprise attack sent them scattering across fields or hiding in desert brush, survivors of a massacre at a trance festival in Israel have come together as a community to heal.

The Biden administration's asylum halt that has led to a 40% drop in arrests for illegal border crossings this month falls hardest on nationalities most susceptible to being deported.

Gaza's ability to dispose of garbage, treat sewage and deliver clean water is virtually decimated by eight months of war between Israel and Hamas.

Officials said at a televised press conference in Beijing meant to introduce the mission's achievements that any cooperation with the U.S. would be hinged on removing a U.S. law that bans direct bilateral cooperation with NASA.

Chinese scientists anticipate the returned samples will include 2.5 million-year-old volcanic rock and other material that scientists hope will answer questions about geographic differences on the moon's two sides.

The viability of a U.S.-backed proposal to wind down the 8-month-long war in Gaza has been cast into doubt after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would only agree to a 'partial' cease-fire deal that would not end the war.

A draft report from the leading international authority on hunger crises says an influx of aid appears to have eased conditions in northern Gaza for now. But it says the entire territory remains at 'high risk' of famine.

An attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels has targeted a commercial ship traveling through the Gulf of Aden but apparently caused no damage.

Russia's southern region of Dagestan is holding the first of three days of mourning following a rampage by Islamic militants who authorities say killed 20 people, most of them police, and attacked houses of worship in apparently coordinated assaults.

Experts say Chinese leaders are likely fretting over a potential loss of influence over North Korea and how that could increase instability on the Korean Peninsula

South Korea summoned the Russian ambassador to protest a defense pact with North Korea, two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an agreement vowing mutual defense with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on a state visit to Pyongyang.

Residents and businesses of Kyiv are adapting to the absence of electricity using generators, power banks and flashlights and even recalculating their bathroom visits.

Russia is intensifying its use of cheap glide bombs to lay waste to cities in eastern Ukraine. The latest generation of the retrofitted weapons has devastated Kharkiv, Avdiivka, Chasiv Yar and Vovchansk.

South Korea says it will consider sending arms to Ukraine after Russia and North Korea rattled the region and beyond by signing a pact to come to each other's defense in the event of war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and President To Lam signed agreements to further cooperate in education, science and technology, oil and gas exploration and health.

The fate of the proposed cease-fire deal for Gaza hinges in many ways on two men: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas' leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.

The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier, its strike group and about 7,000 sailors have been protecting commercial shipping in the Red Sea from months of attacks by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Wiltshire Police said the pair was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of damaging one of the world's most famous prehistoric monuments and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Hundreds of people lined up Wednesday at the Emergency Complex in Al-Muaisem neighborhood in Mecca, trying to get information about their missing family members.

The National Hurricane Center said early Wednesday afternoon that Alberto was located about 180 miles east of Tampico, Mexico, and about 295 miles south-southeast of Brownsville, Texas, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in North Korea early Wednesday, after he said the two countries want to cooperate closely to overcome U.S.-led sanctions in the face of intensifying confrontations with Washington.