Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner Joshua Wong’s time in prison has been extended after a court Thursday meted out a 10-year sentence over a second national security conviction.

Passengers recounted landing at a military base and being subjected to security checks and travel delays after threats that turned out to be hoaxes affected planes in Italy, Poland, Spain.

A prosecutor described Brand as a ruthless, calculating, manipulative "sexual predator." Brand, 51, denied the charges, saying he had never forced anyone to do something against their will.

President Donald Trump's administration held secret talks with Iran on deporting Iranians even as the war there dragged on, court documents obtained by The Associated Press show.The court documents unsealed Thursday show the Republican administration as recently as mid-October said it had plans to deport the Iranians through an unnamed third country,

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s envoy has appeared with first lady Melania Trump at the White House as she brought together Russian and Ukrainian officials to mark the localized ceasefire she brokered between their nations in the Ukrainian village of Oleshky.

Trade union members joined nationwide strikes and demonstrations in Paris to demand higher wages and support the high school protest movement.

Asian fuel oil benchmark prices fell sharply this week as traders priced in higher Middle Eastern crude and fuel supplies, while Democrats' capture of the US Congress eased concerns about ​further escalation of the US-Israeli war with Iran.

A Mexican judge is accused of taking a $2 million bribe in exchange for releasing a suspected Canadian drug trafficker from custody in an investigation into a billion-dollar drug trafficking ring, U.S.