The Trump administration has repeatedly said the fight against sex trafficking is one of its top priorities.

Hopes of finding more survivors of the ​powerful earthquake that rocked Colombia early this week were fading as rescue workers narrowed their searches, while families in the worst-hit areas waited for ‌news of missing relatives.

Two U.S. Army soldiers died when an Apache military helicopter crashed ‌into a field in Texas.

Indonesian authorities rescued more than 200 people on Wednesday after a ferry travelling from the tourist island ​of Bali caught fire in waters off the island of ‌Lombok, officials said, as the search continued for any other missing passengers.

Acclaimed Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery has spent much of her career documenting moments of dissent and the lives of women in Iran.

Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California federal court trial beginning on Wednesday.

Iran and the United States remain at ​loggerheads over efforts to agree a permanent end to the war in the Gulf, according to a senior Iranian source, who said there ‌had been no progress in talks to revive the interim deal agreed in June and define a time frame to implement it.

North Korea fired a ​ballistic missile on Wednesday toward the sea off the Korean peninsula’s east coast, South Korean and Japanese authorities said, days ahead of major ‌joint military exercises by Seoul and Washington long denounced by Pyongyang.

China’s strongest typhoon this year battered the capital with bouts of intense rain that flooded key ‌roads and stranded vehicles, while lashing wide swathes of the country, after setting new rainfall records in central and eastern provinces.

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo concerns a previously unseen variant of the ​rare Bundibugyo species of the virus, indicating it ‌stemmed from a new transmission from animals to humans rather than from variants linked to earlier outbreaks, a new study ​said.

The Taliban have barred an estimated 2.4 ‌million Afghan girls from secondary education since they regained power in Afghanistan in 2021, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said.

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is set to face National Party ​lawmakers in Wellington after he called a meeting he said was to address increased speculation about his leadership months away from a general election.