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Russian investigators launch criminal case after nine babies die at Siberian maternity hospital

9:48 AM on Tuesday, January 13

Russian authorities have opened a criminal investigation into a Siberian maternity hospital where nine babies died over the country’s New Year holidays, officials said Tuesday

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, center, rides in a Humvee during the Army Day celebrations in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq's prime minister steps aside for rival in post-election wrangling over government

8:37 AM on Tuesday, January 13

Iraq’s caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has stepped aside to clear the way for former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, according to two Iraqi officials

Trump administration labels chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt as terrorist organizations

8:30 AM on Tuesday, January 13

Trump administration labels chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt as terrorist organizations

FILE - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni speaks during the 60th Independence Anniversary Celebrations, in Kololo, Uganda, Sunday Oct. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, file)

Uganda's military deployed in national capital before presidential election

8:03 AM on Tuesday, January 13

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni and his opponents have held their final rallies before the country's next election

Czech Republic's Prime Minister Andrej Babis, right, speaks with the media as he arrives for the Patriots for Europe group leaders meeting ahead of an EU leaders summit in Brussels, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Harry Nakos)

Czech Prime Minister Babiš faces confidence vote as government shifts Ukraine policy

7:57 AM on Tuesday, January 13

The Czech Republic’s new government of populist Prime Minister Andrej Babiš faces a mandatory confidence vote in Parliament

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks with the media as he arrives for the Patriots for Europe group leaders meeting ahead of an EU leaders summit in Brussels, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Harry Nakos)

Hungary sets April 12 election date as Orbán faces tough challenge

7:42 AM on Tuesday, January 13

Hungary's parliamentary election is set for April 12, with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expected to face his toughest challenge in 16 years

FILE - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the start of a meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, Oct. 31, 2025. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

China urges Canada to break from US influence as PM Carney visits Beijing

6:29 AM on Tuesday, January 13

China is hoping President Trump's economic and military actions against other countries will weaken the U.S.-Canada relationship

A video of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell plays on a screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Top central bankers express 'full solidarity' with Fed Chair Powell in clash with Trump

6:12 AM on Tuesday, January 13

Central bankers from around the world have expressed full support for U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

Wisconsin's Democratic Gov. Tony Evers discusses his call on the Republican-controlled Legislature to act on a broad array of his priorities in his final year in office on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

Gov. Tony Evers urges the Wisconsin Legislature to act on his key priorities in his final year

6:01 AM on Tuesday, January 13

Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is calling on the Republican-controlled Legislature to act on his priorities during his final year in office, even if it means working later into the year than they are scheduled to be in session

FILE - Pedestrian walks outside the BBC Headquarters in London, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, file)

The BBC seeks to dismiss Trump's $10B defamation lawsuit in a Florida court

5:19 AM on Tuesday, January 13

The BBC will ask a judge to dismiss U.S. President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the broadcaster

Farmers drive their tractors past the Arc de Triomphe as they protest the Mercosur trade deal, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026 in Paris. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)

French farmers drive 350 tractors to Parliament to protest low incomes and EU trade deal

3:19 AM on Tuesday, January 13

French farmers have driven 350 tractors through Paris to protest low incomes and an EU trade deal with South America

FILE - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gestures as she gives her victory speech to Labour Party members at an event in Auckland, New Zealand, Oct. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Adelaide Writers Week canceled as 180 speakers withdraw after the exclusion of a Palestinian writer

3:04 AM on Tuesday, January 13

Organizers of Australia’s largest free literary festival have canceled the weeklong event after most writers withdrew over the removal of an Australian Palestinian writer

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, right, and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung pose for a photo as they shake hands during their joint news conference after their talk in Nara, western Japan, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

Leaders of South Korea and Japan agree to improve cooperation

11:08 PM on Monday, January 12

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi have agreed to enhance cooperation in economic security, defense and the search for Korean forced laborers' remains

Flor Zambrano, whose son, Rene Chourio, she says is detained at Zone 7 of the Bolivarian National Police for political reasons, embraces relatives of other detainees outside the facility in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Families of prisoners in Venezuela wait in anguish as promised releases trickle

2:34 PM on Monday, January 12

Yaxzodara Lozada has woken up freezing on a sidewalk outside a Venezuelan prison, hoping her husband, a police officer detained in November, will be released

This image released by Vatican Media shows Pope Leo XIV meeting with Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado of Venezuela, right, inside his private library at the Vatican, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. (Vatican Media via AP, HO)

Machado seeks Pope Leo’s support for Venezuela's transition during Vatican meeting

7:34 AM on Monday, January 12

Pope Leo XIV has met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the Vatican

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