Estonia has begun naval patrols to protect a cable supplying electricity from Finland following suspected sabotage of another one on Christmas Day, Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur said Friday.

A court in Vietnam sentenced 27 people to death on Friday after finding them guilty of trafficking more than 600 kilos of narcotics including heroin, ketamine and methamphetamine, state media reported ...

Russia's aviation chief said Friday that an Azerbaijani Airlines plane that eventually crashed in Kazakhstan tried to land in the Chechen city of Grozny as it was being attacked by Ukrainian drones.

A Guinean opposition leader has been arrested and taken into custody for allegedly "insulting" the head of the military government in power since 2021, his lawyer and party told AFP on Friday.

An Israeli hospital reported that a woman in her eighties was killed after being stabbed in the coastal city of Herzliya on Friday, while police stated that the suspected attacker had been arrested.

An Italian journalist has been arrested by police in Iran, the country's foreign ministry announced in a statement on Friday.

French skier Cyprien Sarrazin is "conscious" after being airlifted to hospital following a nasty crash Friday during training for a World Cup downhill race in Bormio, Italy.

Dji. Sources: Institute for the Study of War and AEI's Critical Threats Project, AFP bureaus, Acaps (zone as of Dec 24, ...

Australia's fiery pace attack destroyed India's top order on Friday to put them in the driving seat of the fourth Test after ...

South Korean acting president Han Duck-soo was impeached by lawmakers on Friday, two weeks after his predecessor met the same fate after he briefly declared martial law.

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A former CEO of Japanese optical equipment firm Olympus was found guilty on Friday of a drug charge, with a Tokyo court handing down a suspended jail sentence.