Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy named Time's 2022 Person of the Year

Time named Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as its 2022 Person of the Year, noting his success as a wartime leader amid the months-long battle with Russia.

Germany police arrest 25 people suspected of planning armed coup

Police raids against the far right are not uncommon in Germany — still sensitive to its grim Nazi past — but the scale of this operation was unusual.

Putin signs law expanding Russia's rules against LGBT 'propaganda'

Russia’s new law outlaws advertising, media and online resources, books, films and theater productions deemed to contain such LGBT “propaganda.”

China eases some controls but gives no sign of when 'zero COVID' strategy will end

China’s “zero-COVID“ strategy has confined millions of people to their homes and set off protests and demands for President Xi Jinping to resign.

Iran's morality police may be shut down, top official suggests

Mahsa Amini, who died while in custody of the morality police, had been arrested for violating Iran's strict dress codes.

Ukraine says animal eyes sent to some embassies, consulates

The parcels arrived after a package containing an explosive device sent to the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid ignited upon opening on Wednesday and injured an employee. That was one of multiple explosive parcels found in Spain this week.

Massive wave kills US passenger, injures 4 others on Antarctic Viking cruise

The 62-year-old woman was hit by broken glass when the wave broke cabin windows during a storm, authorities said. Viking called it a “rogue wave incident.”

Ukrainian soldiers come to Minnesota for prosthetics — and then return to the fight

"I go back so that every person in my country, whether they be in my family or anyone else, can stop hiding in the basement," a Ukrainian soldier who received prosthetic care in Minnesota said of his decision to return to the military after losing a limb.

Iranian man shot, killed celebrating US victory in World Cup

One man was shot dead by Iranian security forces in northwest Iran for honking his car horn in support of the U.S. victory, the Oslo-based rights monitor Iran Human Rights reported on Thursday.

For Mexico, World Cup heartache and four years of regret

Goals from Henry Martín and Luis Chávez were not enough to take El Tri to the round of 16 for the eighth straight time as Group C's second qualifying spot looked destined to be determined in perhaps the most painful way possible.

Archipelago of 100-plus ‘pristine’ Indonesian islands going up for auction

The Widi Reserve near Bali in far east Indonesia — one of the most environmentally sensitive places on Earth — will be open for bidding soon.

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin, who guided country's economic rise, dies at 96

Jiang Zemin led China out of isolation after the army crushed the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989 and supported economic reforms that led to a decade of explosive growth.

China’s meticulous contact tracing pinpoints jogger amid recent COVID-19 outbreak

Patient zero had gone on a 35-minute jog in a local park without a mask and ended up exposing 2,836 people to the virus, 39 of whom tested positive, health officials said.