Rescinding the designation could help enable Syria’s reintegration into the global economy as it recovers from a nearly 14-year civil war.

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a seven-year prison term for former President Yoon Suk Yeol for obstructing justice by blocking investigators from detaining him in the wake of his failed martial law bid in 2024.

Thousands of mourners cried, pushed each other and shoved their way to get close the coffin of Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala.

Tyler died "unexpectedly" in a hospital in Portugal where she was being treated for an illness, her family said Thursday in a statement on her website.

The day after a court decided the far-right leader Marine Le Pen could run for office again, cheers and boos met her campaign kickoff in a rural stronghold.

Global share and bond markets and oil prices steadied on Thursday after the week’s ​reignition of Middle East hostilities and heavy selling of AI chipmakers.

President Donald Trump is flying home from a NATO summit in Turkey on an old baby blue Air Force One plane instead of the new Qatari-gifted and retrofitted red, white and navy blue jet he arrived in.

The contest to lead Britain’s Labour Party officially kicks off on Thursday. The victor will replace Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister, since Labour has a large majority in the House of Commons. Candidates have a week to drum up nominations from 20% of Labour members of Parliament and from at least three of the party’s affiliated trade unions (or two unions plus one of Labour’s “socialist societies”).