President-elect Donald Trump said he has selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental activist who has spread misinformation on vaccines, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the United States’ top health agency.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guided a test of suicide drones and ordered a mass production of the aerial weapon, saying the introduction of such drones around the world requires an urgent update of military theory, state media said.

Diplomacy aimed at securing a ceasefire in Lebanon showed tentative signs of progress.

A bungled lease for a new Queensland police station with an unfunded $116 million price tag has been referred to the state’s corruption watchdog.

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Lima.

The international community is out of step with Pacific Island nations’ needs on covering the costs of adjusting to a warmer world, the aid agency of the Catholic Church says.

More than 5,000 people protested next to the Lithuanian parliament.

Austrian prosecutors have asked parliament to lift far-right leader Herbert Kickl’s immunity.

The prosecutor’s office of Mexico’s Sinaloa state is investigating the killing of some 14 people.

A senior Lebanese official has signalled that Hezbollah is ready to pull its forces away.

With his nomination of China hardliner Marco Rubio for secretary of state, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has signaled his policy.

Argentina’s decision to withdraw from the COP29 summit was taken by the country’s new foreign minister .