The higher tempo of Ukrainian strikes has fueled discontent among Russians, but it is far from clear that it will change the Kremlin’s calculus about the war.

A former U.S. Marine who spent more than four years in prison on disputed charges and believed to be seriously ill has been released by Russia, a U.S. Senator said Tuesday. Robert Gilman “has finally been released by the Russian government and is on his way home to the United States,

At least six people were killed Tuesday when Houthi militia attacked a cargo ship with missiles in the Red Sea, the Yemeni government said.

Thailand is suspending new gun permits and tightening its firearm controls after last week’s deadly school shooting, in which a 14-year-old boy killed eight people before turning the gun on himself.

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has survived a leadership vote among his party’s lawmakers less than three months before an election.

Crews were battling a fire and trying to rescue more survivors from a burning passenger ferry in rough seas Wednesday near the Indonesian tourist island of Bali. Rescuers and passing vessels had managed to save 106 people and were battling to get the remaining 25 people off the burning vessel,

Authorities in Zimbabwe say at least 15 people have died and another 27 are missing after a ferry capsized on Lake Kariba. The national disaster management agency said in a statement that 77

Hiroshi Okuda, the former chief executive of Toyota, who led the Japanese automaker’s stellar rise in global markets, has died