Labeled a “massacre” by authorities, video showing migrant workers being burned alive is driving a reckoning over the exploitation of foreign laborers in Italy.

Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least nine Palestinians, according to local hospitals. The fatalities were the latest in the enclave since a ceasefire deal attempted to halt the war between Israel and Hamas.

Through the long days and nights he and four other men were trapped inside a flooded cave, all Mued Duangsomdy could think about was food.

Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian author and illustrator behind the popular graphic novel series and film “Persopolis,” has died, the French presidency said Thursday.

Two people were arrested after the deaths of four migrant farmworkers who were burned alive in a car in southern Italy. The lone survivor of the blaze told Italian media that one of the men who died had been “asking for contract work instead of uncontracted work.”

Japan’s fertility rate dropped for the tenth year in a row in 2025, new data shows. Dwindling birth rates and aging populations around the world are fueling government initiatives to boost births, including in the United States. NBC News’ Raf Sanchez reports.

An Iran drone attack on Kuwait’s main airport killed one and injured dozens more. Still, late today President Trump dismissed the latest violence and said a longer term peace deal could be reached this weekend. NBC News’ Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel reports from the region.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the case would go to the Court of Appeal to be reviewed — but advocates say the initial sentences speak to a wider failing.

Iran launched a deadly new set of attacks in the Persian Gulf as it traded strikes with the U.S., the latest exchange to threaten the fragile ceasefire and stalled peace talks between the two countries.

An ad for a shepherding job went viral in China, drawing hundreds of applications from young people eager to escape the stresses of urban life.

Ukraine launched hundreds of drones at Russian targets early Wednesday, sending black smoke rising above the historic heart of St. Petersburg.

U.S. Coast Guard divers have arrived in the Bahamas as the agency resumes its search for Lynette Hooker, the American woman who disappeared in April after, her husband said, she fell from a boat, an official said Tuesday