Curfews, quarantines and even border closings complicated Christmas celebrations Friday for countless people around the globe, but ingenuity, determination and imagination helped keep the day special for many. In South Africa, which is battling a spike in cases and deaths driven by a...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Friday that a marine mine laid by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis hit a commercial cargo ship in the southern Red Sea causing minor damages but no human loss, Saudi state TV reported.

Israeli missile strikes on Syria killed at least six Iran-backed fighters Friday, an anti-regime war monitor said. The dead were all foreign paramilitaries fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad's forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Right said. The missiles, which were fired...

 Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday corrected statements he had made in parliament, apologising for what he said were mistakes regarding a political funding scandal that has also cast a pall over the current premier. Abe said he felt deeply responsible for making...