11 civilians, including eight children and a senior citizen, have reportedly been killed in an airstrike on the village of Vuilu, Burma, by the country’s military junta.”All the children were under the age of 12 and two of them are the teacher’s children,” National Unity Government official Ngai Tam Maung…

Mohamed Muizzu was sworn in Friday as the Maldives’ president, succeeding Ibrahim Solih.Muizzu, a conservative Islamist largely seen as sympathetic to China, defeated Solih in an upset in September’s election.Muizzu vowed upon inauguration that the archipelagic nation’s “lines of independence and sovereignty will be drawn clearly,” and doubled down on…

One woman died and 19 people were rescued after a dinghy carrying migrants to Greece capsized off an islet in the eastern Aegean Sea near the Turkish coast Friday, Greek authorities said.A coast guard statement said the woman was found unconscious in the water and was pronounced dead in hospital…

BERLIN (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Germany Friday on a short visit overshadowed by the two countries’ very different stances on the war between Israel and Hamas.Erdogan was welcomed by Germany’s largely ceremonial president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, ahead of an evening meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Scholz…

LONDON (AP) — British author A.S. Byatt, who wove history, myth and a sharp eye for human foibles into books that included the Booker Prize-winning novel “Possession,” has died at the age of 87.Byatt’s publisher, Chatto & Windus, said Friday that the author, whose full name was Antonia Byatt, died…

Terrorists attacked U.S. military bases in Iraq and Syria on Friday, striking three facilities with one-way drones and leaving at least one soldier injured, a Department of Defense report says. The incidents bring the total number of attacks on U.S. coalition forces to 60 since October 17, the Associated Press is…

BUENOS AIRES – Argentina, the majestic name conjures up images of sizzling steaks, velvety red wine, the sprawling wheat-laden Pampas and towering Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas. The nation is riding high on the glory of Messi and last year’s victory in the World Cup, its first since…

Moscow is trying to bribe its citizens into signing up to serve in the military as Russian President Vladimir Putin watches his forces continue to shrivel up in Ukraine the longer the conflict lasts. “Putin has launched a full-on recruitment drive,” Rebekah Koffler, a strategic military intelligence analyst and the author…

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said in an interview that his country has been “not successful” in minimizing civilian casualties inside the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu, speaking to CBS News, said “any civilian death is a tragedy” and that “we shouldn’t have any because we’re doing everything we can to get…

Officials in Iceland, who are warning on Friday of a volcanic eruption that could “start anytime in the next few days,” have now pinpointed the area where they believe it is “most likely” to happen. The Icelandic Meteorological Office says around 2,000 earthquakes have been recorded in the last 24 hours…