Pope Francis now eating solid foods, showing ‘slight gradual improvements,’ Vatican says

South Korean lawmakers are calling for suspending the constitutional powers of President Yoon Suk Yeol after his short-lived martial law declaration earlier this week, raising the prospects of impeachment.  Opposition parties are pushing for a parliamentary vote on Yoon’s impeachment on Saturday, calling his martial law declaration an “unconstitutional, illegal rebellion or coup.”  President Yoon […]

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s possible final hearing challenging his extradition to the U.S. to face charges for publishing classified U.S. military documents kicked off Tuesday morning at the British High Court in London. Members of the European Parliament are the latest to call on the U.K. to halt Assange’s extradition and release him from custody. […]

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his country Wednesday evening during a primetime address that its cabinet is “deciding” on the timing for a possible ground incursion into the Gaza Strip.  “The goal, the timing of what the Israel Defense Forces is going to do is based on the cabinet and the chief of staff and […]