- 7.8-Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Turkey and Syria, Killing 1,700+ as Death Toll Keeps Mounting
- Pentagon Downs Chinese Balloon, Blinken Cancels China Trip as Beijing Accuses U.S. of Overreacting
- Israeli Forces Kill 5 Palestinians in West Bank as Mass Protests Against Israeli Gov't Continue
- Iranian Supreme Leader Pardons Some Jailed Protesters as Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Released on Bail
- Iraqi Rights Groups Demand Women's Rights Legislation After "Honor Killing" of 22-Year-Old YouTuber
- Prominent Iraqi Environmentalist Jassim Al-Asadi Kidnapped Near Baghdad
- Pervez Musharraf, Ex-President of Pakistan and Ally in George W. Bush's "War on Terror," Dead at 79
- Refugees Drown in Shipwrecks Off Coasts of Greece and Italy
- U.K. Medical Workers Stage Largest Strike in History of National Health Service
- At Least 24 Killed in Chile as Summer Heat Fans Wildfires
- Cold Snap Brings Record Wind Chill to Eastern U.S. and Canada
- South Carolina Will Hold First Presidential Primary of DNC's Revamped Calendar
- The Innocence Project Demands Missouri Call Off Execution of Leonard "Raheem" Taylor
- Shervin Hajipour, Who Wrote Iranian Protest Anthem, Honored at Grammy Awards