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Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party and the country’s most powerful politician, has died following months of ill health

Japanese and Taiwanese coast guards have conducted what is believed to be their first joint drill off Japan’s eastern coast, officials said Friday, a move seen as an effort to expand maritime cooperation amid concern about China’s increasingly assertive activity in regional seas

A major internet outage affecting Microsoft is disrupting flights, banks, media outlets and companies across the world

Businesses and governments worldwide experienced hours-long disruptions as a widespread technology outage affected services across industries

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to address the new British government in person, a rare move for a foreign leader

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Britain’s new government to help Kyiv’s forces attack deeper inside Russia to stop deadly missile strikes

Armenian authorities say that a small training plane of the Armenian air force has crashed

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has praised a tentative deal between the European Union and Serbia that paves the way for the disputed excavation of lithium

The top United Nations court is set to deliver a nonbinding advisory opinion on the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state, a ruling that could have more effect on international opinion than it will on Israeli policies

The top United Nations court has opened a hearing to deliver a nonbinding advisory opinion on the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state, a ruling that could have more effect on international opinion than it will on Israeli policies