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Meta says it blocked more than 544,000 accounts across its platforms to comply with Australia's ban on social media for kids under 16.

A San Diego-based former Navy sailor convicted of spying for China was sentenced to more than 16 years in prison for his role in supplying secrets to China, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

Prosecutors on late Tuesday formally requested the death sentence for Yoon Suk Yeol, the former president of South Korea forced out of office last year after a short-lived attempt to declare martial law in December 2024.

Costa Rica's national security chief on Tuesday revealed details of an alleged plot to assassinate President Rodrigo Chaves ahead of presidential and legislative elections.

Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi insisted on Tuesday that the Iranian regime is fully intact this week despite enduring weeks of intense, nationwide protests aimed at overthrowing the Islamic republic.

The nationwide protests surging across Iran this month have emerged as one of the greatest threats to the clerical rulers of Iran since the founding of the Islamic republic in 1979. But after four decades of hardline theocratic leaders, it's not ...

Scores of families - who once hesitated to approach advocacy groups - are now coming forward to register their loved ones as "political prisoners."

President Trump on Tuesday said he canceled talks with Iranian officials over their violent crackdown on protesters and vowed that the U.S. will "help" the protesters, encouraging them to continue with the unrest.

The death toll from nationwide protests in Iran spiked Tuesday to at least 2,003 people killed, activists said, and Iranians made phone calls abroad for the first time in days after authorities severed communications during a crackdown.

Denmark provided U.S. forces in the east Atlantic with support last week as they intercepted an oil tanker for violations of U.S. sanctions, a Danish government official confirmed on Tuesday, despite tensions between the allies over the Trump ...