Israel's military on Thursday said it conducted strikes that demolished a series of tunnels used by Hezbollah as a base in southern Lebanon.

The rebels were reported Friday to have captured Perim, an island vital to controlling the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, one of the world’s most important shipping routes.

Once shunned over its extremist roots, the Sweden Democrats could enter government for the first time as voters weigh immigration, crime and Sweden's political transformation.

North Korea fired multiple short ballistic missiles toward waters off its east coast Saturday, a day after the US, South Korea and Japan wrapped up joint military exercises that Pyongyang had condemned as a threat to its security.

The activists were sentenced to about 5 to 7 years in prison in a case widely seen as a barometer of the city's eroding freedoms as Beijing clamps down on dissent.

The House is expected to take up a punishing Russian sanctions package next week, though prospects of passage are uncertain despite the overwhelming support the bill received in the Senate. The House Rules Committee has scheduled a meeting on the bill Monday,

At the BRICS summit in New Delhi Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will host presidents Vladimir Putin, Masoud Pezeshkian and Xi Jinping.

Brazil’s top court unsealed several documents late Thursday that show Sen. Bolsonaro is under investigation for receiving 61 million reais ($12 million) from a banker at the center of a corruption scandal to produce an unreleased movie titled “The Dark Horse.