A South Korean court has sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison, the first verdict in eight criminal trials for allegations that include his 2024 martial law decree.

More than 4.7 million social media accounts belonging to Australians under the age of 16 have been removed since the nation's new social media youth ban went into effect last month, Canberra announced Friday.

With one puff of a cigarette, a woman in Canada became a global symbol of defiance against Iran's bloody crackdown on dissent — and the world saw the flame. A video that has gone viral in recent days shows the woman — who described herself as an Iranian refugee — snapping open a lighter and setting the flame to a photo she holds.

Several key U.S. allies in the Middle East have engaged in intensive diplomacy between Iran and the United States, aiming to stave off a military conflict, a Gulf official told CBS News.

Nearly 300 South Korean firefighters were deployed on Friday (January 16) to fight a major fire in a deprived area of the upmarket Gangnam district of southern Seoul, a fire official said. Devastated residents watched their homes burn as the fire tore through a densely packed hillside area known as Guryong Village.

Kemi Badenoch’s blurry video statement, posted on X on January 15th, looks like it could have been filmed in a bunker. For the leader of the Conservative Party, it might have felt like it, too. She announced that she was sacking Robert Jenrick,

Bushra Mahnoor remembers the shame she felt when she had her period as a teen and did not have the supplies she needed. Today she leads a campaign to lower prices for pads in Pakistan.

Vote counting was underway Friday in Uganda’s tense presidential election, which was held a day earlier amid an internet shutdown, voting delays and complaints by an opposition leader who said some of his polling agents had been detained by the authorities.