A man who is wanted in Colombia and Ecuador for the assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito in 2023 was arrested in Mexico and transferred to Colombia, authorities said Wednesday.

Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to temporarily suspend fighting during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, both countries announced days after dozens were killed at a Kabul drug rehabilitation hospital.

Asia is expected to import a record volume of fuel oil from Russia in March ​after the U.S. eased sanctions, shipping data showed as of Thursday, ahead of expected tighter supplies from next ‌month caused by the U.

Costa Rica on Wednesday closed its embassy in Havana and told Cuba's Communist government to pull its diplomats from Costa Rica.

A Chinese province has intensified a crackdown on fentanyl precursor trafficking, an issue that strained U.S.-China relations and prompted tariffs on imports from China. State media reported

China, which has not ruled out the use of force against the Beijing-claimed island democracy, prefers to achieve unification without it, U.S. intelligence agencies said.

An independent committee investigating the cause of Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades heard accounts Thursday about how a series of failures contributed to the 2025 blaze that engulfed seven buildings and killed 168 people as hearings in the case got underway.

Samsung Electronics Co. plans to spend more than 110 trillion won ($73.3 billion) on capital expenditure and research in 2026, reflecting expansions in memory chip capacity as well as exploration into fields such as AI.