North Korean soldiers shot dead a suspected South Korean defector at sea and burned his body as a coronavirus precaution after he was interrogated in the water over several hours, Seoul military officials said Thursday. It is the first killing of a Southern citizen by North Korean forces...

Government airstrikes in the north of Afghanistan killed 24 civilians, including children, and wounded six others, witnesses told The Associated Press Sunday. The two witnesses contacted by the AP said that most of those killed in Saturday's airstrikes, which struck the village of Sayed...

A projectile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels hit a village in Saudi Arabia's southern Jizan province, wounding five civilians, state media reported. The civilians had been rushed to hospital after suffering "minor injuries" from flying shrapnel, the official Saudi Press Agency reported late...

Gunfire at a backyard party killed two people and wounded 14 others early Saturday in Rochester, New York, a city roiled in recent weeks by outrage over the police suffocation death of Daniel Prude. As many as 100 people were at the gathering when the shooting started just before 12:30...