Russia and Ukraine exchanged punishing strikes Friday. Ballistic missiles ripped apart a defense industry exhibition outside Kyiv in a rare daytime attack, killing at least 10 people and injuring close to 100 — raising questions and accusations over the decision to openly hold such an event as Moscow rains down missiles on Ukraine.

A Romanian F-16 shot down an unauthorized drone over Buzău County, marking the first such interception in the NATO member's national airspace.

Law enforcement officials in Ireland stopped a vehicle containing a car bomb earlier this week during an intelligence sweep of republican dissidents.

Indian students have been turning walls and placards into canvases, creating graffiti art and designing unconventional pun-filled posters as a youth-led “cockroach” movement gathered momentum in the heart of the capital.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tightly constructed image is being punctured as a Gen Z-led protest movement uses videos and memes to seize the digital narrative.

U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk faces a vote Friday for a second four-year term but is running into opposition from critics and some countries for his criticism of Israel's attacks in Gaza and his approach to China’s crackdown on its Uyghur minority.

Wildfires in France force thousands to flee amid an ongoing European heatwave, as scientists warn that climate change is worsening the continent's water shortages.

A suicide bomber backed by gunmen has attacked a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, killing 15 members of the security forces. The military says the overnight assault in Tank,