The U.S. and South Korean militaries say they will conduct their annual springtime exercises next month to bolster their combined defense posture amid a deepening diplomatic freeze with nuclear-armed North Korea.

Police in Sri Lanka say they have arrested the country’s former intelligence chief in connection with suicide bomb attacks in 2019.

The gigantic snowstorm this week across the Northeast United States has dropped piles of snow from Maryland to Maine.

Japan says Iran has detained a Japanese citizen in Tehran since January and it is demanding the person’s quick release.

The United States has been stepping up intelligence-sharing and pressuring Mexico to act on that information throughout the Trump administration.

The white duds were not the only form of protest to the president’s speech: Dozens of Democratic lawmakers declined to attend the address.

Andrei Lankov, a prominent Russian scholar on North Korea who teaches at a Seoul university, was detained in Latvia while delivering a lecture, Russian media reported.

A federal appeals court is weighing whether the Trump administration unlawfully shut down a $20 billion green bank program and froze money meant for climate nonprofits.

Ambassador Olga Stefanishyna noted the U.S. concern on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.

British politician Peter Mandelson is under investigation for alleged misconduct in public office linked to his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.