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Police in New York City said Thursday that a man died from severe burns near the United Nations headquarters, and activists and a media outlet of exiled Tibetans identified him as a Tibetan who set himself on fire in an appeal for independence.

A young couple in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned on Thursday after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them of violating Islamic law by kissing during a TikTok livestream.

A fire tore through a commercial building in the northern Indian city of Lucknow on Monday, killing at least 14 people, most of them students, officials said.

ANKARA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered officials ​on Sunday to resume talks on reopening an Orthodox Christian seminary near Istanbul, an issue raised by U.S.

A former U.K. border official and a retired Hong Kong police officer were given prison sentences on Thursday for spying on dissidents and critics of Beijing in Britain.

Police in Vietnam seized more than 400 cats in a major bust of a cat meat crime ring, according to animal welfare groups and local media reports.

Starbucks Korea will shut all stores in the country at 3 p.m. on June 22 for staff training on historical awareness, following public backlash over a marketing campaign.

Yoon Suk Yeol had already been sentenced to life in prison for a rebellion conviction over his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024.

Taiwan’s military on Wednesday fired its new mobile HIMARS rocket system, which is widely used by Ukraine, simulating an attack on an invading Chinese force and demonstrating its ability to “shoot-and-scoot” by avoiding counter strikes.

Kim Jong Un offered China’s president a grand welcome Monday.