Five years after regaining power, the hard-line Islamist regime has formalized a women’s rights rollback in a sprawling penal code that experts say makes it almost impossible for women to escape abuse.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away from Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine, apparently to prioritize diplomatic relations with China and South Korea, but did not mention her country’s wartime past in Asia or remorse over it in an address Saturday as Japan marked the 81st anniversary of its surrender in World War II.

Artworks by Henri Mattise, Paul Cezanne and Pierre-August Renoir stolen in two separate cases have been recovered in Brazil and Italy.

Myanmar’s military-backed government says it has verified that more than 300,000 Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh are former residents of western Rakhine state.

UAE's Abu Dhabi National Oil Company said on ​Saturday that one of its vessels ‌came under attack while transiting the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier, the Emirati ​state news agency WAM reported.

Keeping gas prices low is now the United States’ “goal number one” in the Iran war, Vice President JD Vance has said, as Washington threatened an indefinite naval blockade and signaled it would soon intensify economic pressure on Tehran.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Friday announced a ban on the sale of disposable barbeques amid the fight against wildfires and drought.

As Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers mark five years since sweeping back to power, some Kabul residents stressed that the leaders should now focus on creating jobs and expanding access to schools in the country where girls above the age of 12 are banned from education.