South Koreans have reacted with joy and astonishment after learning that homegrown writer Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in literature, an unexpected moment that stoked national pride about the country’s growing cultural influence

The Nobel Peace Prize is being announced, against a backdrop of devastating conflicts raging in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan

Police say gunmen killed 20 miners and wounded seven others in Pakistan’s southwest

New Zealand’s Defense Minister Judith Collins has decried what she called misogynistic online comments about the woman commander of a navy ship which ran aground, caught fire and sank off the coast of Samoa on Sunday

President Vladimir Putin is on a visit to Turkmenistan, speaking at an international forum with Central Asian leaders and the president of Iran

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Southeast Asian leaders Friday that the U.S. is concerned about China’s “increasingly dangerous and unlawful” activities in the disputed South China Sea during an annual summit meeting, and pledged the U.S. will continue to uphold freedom of navigation in the vital sea trade route

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been city-hopping across Europe to promote a “victory plan” that he said “aims to create the right conditions for a just end to the war” against Russia

Lebanon’s health ministry says at least 22 people have been killed and 117 wounded in Israeli airstrikes that hit two areas in central Beirut

A new mayor has been sworn in a city in southern Mexico where his predecessor was killed and beheaded less than a week after taking office

Mexico has sent 660 soldiers and militarized National Guard officers to the western state of Michoacan to protect lime growers who complained they were suffering extortion demands by cartels

Donald Trump is rolling out more plans for tax breaks without offering details on how they would work and the impact they would have on the federal budget

Prosecutors say South African President Cyril Ramaphosa won’t face criminal charges over a hidden cash scandal that was revealed more than two years ago and triggered an investigation by a special police unit

A series of attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have targeted a Liberian-flagged chemical tanker in the Red Sea

A U.N. commission has accused Israel of destroying Gaza’s health care system through “relentless and deliberate attacks” in its yearlong war with Hamas

Ratan Tata, one of India’s most influential business leaders, has been cremated after a state funeral in the country’s financial capital

Illegal gold mining along the banks of northwestern Colombia’s Atrato river is causing severe contamination and deforestation for the small, impoverished riverbank communities made up of predominantly Afro-Colombian and Indigenous peoples

Fishermen in Southeast Asia’s largest freshwater fishery, the Tonle Sap lake, hope that raising eels will help them adapt to new realities stemming from climate change and environmental damage

Southeast Asian leaders have stepped up pressure on China to respect international law following clashes in the disputed South China Sea, but Chinese Premier Li Qiang remained defiant during annual summit talks as he blamed “external forces” for interfering in regional affairs

The overcrowded boat that capsized in eastern Congo last week killed eight members of Serge Nzonga’s family along with 70 others

The first of over 2,000 evacuees in Beirut are boarding a Turkish military ship sent to provide aid to Lebanon and evacuate Turkish citizens and some foreigners from the country being hit by Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah