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Read full article: Activists say Iran has aired at least 97 coerced confessions from protesters, often after torture

Activists say Iran has aired at least 97 coerced confessions from protesters, often after torture

Iranian state media has aired at least 97 confessions from protesters since Dec. 28, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency.

Relatives of Edilson Torres, a Venezuelan police officer who died in prison a month after being arrested on accusations of treason, gather around his grave during his funeral in Guanare, Venezuela, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Hundreds more in Venezuela say their loved ones are 'political prisoners'

Read full article: Hundreds more in Venezuela say their loved ones are 'political prisoners'

Edilson Torres has been buried in his hometown after dying in a Venezuelan prison.

Naaja Nathanielsen, Greenland's Minister for Business, speaks during a press conference in the Houses of Parliament in London, England, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Read full article: Denmark, Greenland leaders stand united against Trump's Greenland takeover call ahead of key meeting

Denmark, Greenland leaders stand united against Trump's Greenland takeover call ahead of key meeting

The leaders of Denmark and the country’s territory of Greenland on Tuesday offered a united front against President Donald Trump’s calls for the United States to take over the strategic Arctic island.

FILE - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni speaks during the 60th Independence Anniversary Celebrations, in Kololo, Uganda, Sunday Oct. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda, file)

Read full article: Uganda's military deployed in national capital before presidential election

Uganda's military deployed in national capital before presidential election

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni and his opponents have held their final rallies before the country's next election.

FILE - Then South Korea's ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol who is facing charges of orchestrating a rebellion when he declared martial law on Dec. 3, arrives to attend his trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool, File)

South Korean prosecutor seeks death sentence for ex-leader Yoon over martial law decree

Read full article: South Korean prosecutor seeks death sentence for ex-leader Yoon over martial law decree

A Seoul court says an independent counsel has demanded a death sentence for former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.

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Read full article: Catch up on today’s top headlines

Catch up on today’s top headlines

Catch up on the latest news updates from Houston and around the world.

Palestinians carry plastic jerrycans filled with water amid stormy weather at a displacement camp in Gaza City, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Read full article: Gaza's living conditions worsen as strong winds and hypothermia kill 5

Gaza's living conditions worsen as strong winds and hypothermia kill 5

Strong winds have caused at least four deaths in Gaza as walls collapsed onto tents in the coastal territory.

A man smokes outside of an emergency tent where people can warm up following Russia's regular air attacks against the country's energy objects, that leave residents without power, water and heating in the dead of winter, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Danyil Bashakov)

Read full article: Russia attacks Ukraine's power grid again in freezing temperatures

Russia attacks Ukraine's power grid again in freezing temperatures

Russia has launched another major drone and missile attack on Ukraine that targeted the country's power grid in freezing temperatures.

FILE - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gestures as she gives her victory speech to Labour Party members at an event in Auckland, New Zealand, Oct. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

Read full article: Adelaide Writers Week canceled as 180 speakers withdraw after the exclusion of a Palestinian writer

Adelaide Writers Week canceled as 180 speakers withdraw after the exclusion of a Palestinian writer

Organizers of Australia’s largest free literary festival have canceled the weeklong event after most writers withdrew over the removal of an Australian Palestinian writer.

FILE - Chan Pui-man, associate publisher of Apple Daily newspaper walks out from a court in Hong Kong, June 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung), File)

Read full article: Hong Kong court moves closer to sentencing activist Jimmy Lai after hearing lighter penalty pleas

Hong Kong court moves closer to sentencing activist Jimmy Lai after hearing lighter penalty pleas

A Hong Kong court moved closer to sentencing prominent democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, who was convicted under a national security law and could face up to life imprisonment.

Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo)

Read full article: The death toll from a crackdown on protests in Iran jumps to at least 2,571, activists say

The death toll from a crackdown on protests in Iran jumps to at least 2,571, activists say

Activists say the death toll from the protests in Iran has surpassed 2,500 people.

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen leaves for a break during her appeal trial after an embezzlement conviction, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Read full article: Marine Le Pen's appeal trial opens in Paris, with far-right leader's 2027 presidential bid at stake

Marine Le Pen's appeal trial opens in Paris, with far-right leader's 2027 presidential bid at stake

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has returned to court to appeal an embezzlement conviction that risks affecting her 2027 presidential ambitions.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, left, and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung pose for photographs as they visit the Western Precinct or Saiin Garan, at the Horyuji Temple in Ikaruga, Nara prefecture, western Japan, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (Franck Robichon/Pool Photo via AP)

Read full article: Leaders of South Korea and Japan agree to improve cooperation

Leaders of South Korea and Japan agree to improve cooperation

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi have agreed to enhance cooperation in economic security, defense and the search for Korean forced laborers' remains.

Flor Zambrano, whose son, Rene Chourio, she says is detained at Zone 7 of the Bolivarian National Police for political reasons, embraces relatives of other detainees outside the facility in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Read full article: Families of prisoners in Venezuela wait in anguish as promised releases trickle

Families of prisoners in Venezuela wait in anguish as promised releases trickle

Yaxzodara Lozada has woken up freezing on a sidewalk outside a Venezuelan prison, hoping her husband, a police officer detained in November, will be released.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan speaks during an interview in London, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Read full article: London’s homicide rate is at a record low as mayor says it disproves Trump's 'dystopian' claims

London’s homicide rate is at a record low as mayor says it disproves Trump's 'dystopian' claims

London's murder rate fell in 2025 to its lowest level in decades, officials said Monday.

The Cuban flag flies at half-mast at the Anti-Imperialist Tribune near the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, in memory of Cubans who died two days before in Caracas, Venezuela during the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Read full article: Cuba's president says no current talks with the US following Trump's threats

Cuba's president says no current talks with the US following Trump's threats

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says his administration is not in talks with the U.S. government.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, center, is welcomed by Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, in Zagreb, Croatia, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Read full article: How NATO works at a time when Trump is threatening to seize Greenland

How NATO works at a time when Trump is threatening to seize Greenland

U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated threats to take control of Greenland are straining relations with NATO allies.

FILE - A boat rides though a frozen sea inlet outside of Nuuk, Greenland, on March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)

Read full article: US lawmakers to visit Denmark as Trump continues to threaten Greenland

US lawmakers to visit Denmark as Trump continues to threaten Greenland

A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation is headed to Copenhagen later this week to show unity with Denmark amid tensions over Greenland.

In this frame grab from footage circulating on social media from Iran showed protesters once again taking to the streets of Tehran despite an intensifying crackdown as the Islamic Republic remains cut off from the rest of the world in Tehran, Iran, Saturday Jan. 10, 2026. (UGC via AP)

Read full article: Trump says Iran wants to negotiate as the death toll in protests rises to at least 646

Trump says Iran wants to negotiate as the death toll in protests rises to at least 646

U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran wants to negotiate with the U.S. after his threat to strike the country over its crackdown on protesters.

FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2017, file photo, smoke rises from a burned house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, where the vast majority of the country's 1.1 million Rohingya lived, Myanmar. (AP Photo, File)

Read full article: Hearings on whether Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya opens at top UN court

Hearings on whether Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya opens at top UN court

Myanmar heard accusations that it is responsible for genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority at the top court of the United Nations, as long-awaited hearings began on Monday.

FILE- Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai is escorted by Correctional Services officers to get on a prison van before appearing in a court in Hong Kong, Dec. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Read full article: Hong Kong court hears arguments on sentencing of former publisher Jimmy Lai; no decision yet

Hong Kong court hears arguments on sentencing of former publisher Jimmy Lai; no decision yet

A Hong Kong court is hearing arguments about the sentencing of democracy advocate Jimmy Lai.

Burned vehicles and ammunitions left at one of the Kurdish fighters positions at the Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood, where clashes between government forces and Kurdish fighters have been taking place in the northern city of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Read full article: First responders enter devastated Aleppo neighborhood after days of deadly fighting

First responders enter devastated Aleppo neighborhood after days of deadly fighting

First responders started entering a contested neighborhood in Syria's Aleppo after deadly clashes between government and Kurdish-led forces.

FILE -Danish military forces participate in an exercise with hundreds of troops from several European NATO members in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, Sept. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Read full article: Britain is in talks with NATO to counter Russia and China in the Arctic

Britain is in talks with NATO to counter Russia and China in the Arctic

Britain is discussing with NATO allies how to enhance Arctic security against Russia and China.

Palestinian residents of Ras Ein al-Auja village, West Bank pack up their belongings and prepare to leave their homes after deciding to flee mounting settler violence, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Read full article: Settler violence in the Jordan Valley expels Palestinians from one of the few towns left standing

Settler violence in the Jordan Valley expels Palestinians from one of the few towns left standing

Families from one of the few remaining Palestinian Bedouin villages in the dusty corridor between Ramallah and Jericho packed up and prepared to flee their homes Sunday, saying harassment by Jewish settlers living in unauthorized outposts nearby had grown unbearable.

A tent camp for displaced Palestinians stretches across an area in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Read full article: Hamas says it will dissolve its Gaza government when new Palestinian body takes over

Hamas says it will dissolve its Gaza government when new Palestinian body takes over

Hamas says it will dissolve its government in Gaza once a Palestinian technocratic leadership committee takes over as part of a U.S.-brokered peace plan.

FILE - Iranian protestors burn representations of the Israeli and U.S. flags during a protest to condemn Israeli attacks on multiple cities across Iran, after the Friday prayers ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi), File)

Read full article: Iranian protests are growing. Israel is watching closely

Iranian protests are growing. Israel is watching closely

Israel is closely monitoring the fallout from widespread Iranian protests.

FILE - Robert Kennedy Jr., center, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Health and Human Services Department, walks between meetings with senators on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Read full article: Germany sharply rejects RFK Jr.'s claims that it prosecutes doctors for vaccine exemptions

Germany sharply rejects RFK Jr.'s claims that it prosecutes doctors for vaccine exemptions

The German government has sharply rejected claims by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that it sidelined patient autonomy during COVID-19.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second left, listens to British Defense Secretary John Healey during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Danylo Antoniuk)

Read full article: Ukrainian drone attack in Russia kills 1 following Moscow's intense bombardment

Ukrainian drone attack in Russia kills 1 following Moscow's intense bombardment

A Ukrainian drone strike has killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh.

In this frame grab from footage circulating on social media shows protesters dancing and cheering around a bonfire as they take to the streets despite an intensifying crackdown as the Islamic Republic remains cut off from the rest of the world, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026.(UGC via AP)

Read full article: Death toll from protests in Iran hits at least 544, activists say, as Trump says Iran wants to talk

Death toll from protests in Iran hits at least 544, activists say, as Trump says Iran wants to talk

President Donald Trump says Iran reached out to the U.S. and proposed negotiations after he threatened action in response to a crackdown on protesters in the Middle Eastern country.

A Facebook post of the Prime Minister of Israel with a retouched photo of the Prime Ministers wife, Sara Netanyahu, is displayed on a phone in Ramat Gan, Israel, Jan, 9, 2026 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Read full article: Retouched images of Netanyahu's wife, distributed by the state, ignite a fiery ethics debate

Retouched images of Netanyahu's wife, distributed by the state, ignite a fiery ethics debate

Israel’s official state photos from last year portend to show history in the making.

This image released by CBS Broadcasting shows Timothe Chalamet accepting the award for best actor in a motion picture - musical or comedy for "Marty Supreme" during the 83rd Golden Globes on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Kevork Djansezian/CBS Broadcasting via AP)

Read full article: 'Hamnet' and 'One Battle After Another' take top honors at Golden Globes

'Hamnet' and 'One Battle After Another' take top honors at Golden Globes

Paul Thomas Anderson’s ragtag revolutionary saga “One Battle After Another” and Chloe Zhao's Shakespeare drama “Hamnet” took top honors at Sunday’s 83rd Golden Globes, where the up-for-sale Warner Bros.

An official of the Union Election Commission shows a slip as they count ballots at a polling station during the second phase of general election in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Read full article: Myanmar holds second round of voting in first general election since military takeover

Myanmar holds second round of voting in first general election since military takeover

Myanmar has begun a second round of voting in its first general election since the military takeover five years ago.

A relative embraces Diogenes Angulo after his release from prison in San Francisco de Yare, Venezuela, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. Angulo had been detained two days before the 2024 presidential election. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Read full article: Slow-moving prisoner releases in Venezuela enter 3rd day after government announces goodwill effort

Slow-moving prisoner releases in Venezuela enter 3rd day after government announces goodwill effort

Venezuelan detainee Diógenes Angulo has been released from prison after a year and five months.

This photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows a U.S. Airman preparing an A-10 Thunderbolt II for flight from a base in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, in support of Operation Hawkeye Strike. (U.S. Air Force/DVIDS via AP)