Ethnic armed groups in Myanmar are claiming to have captured two strategically important towns in the northeast. Their fall would be the biggest in a series of setbacks suffered by Myanmar’s military government this year.

A month after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted officials new authority to police homelessness, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday ordered state agencies to ramp up encampment sweeps and urged local governments to do the same.

Typhoon Gaemi has made landfall on China’s southeastern coast after sweeping across Taiwan, where it caused landslides and flooding and left three dead. Gaemi had swept up the western Pacific, intensifying seasonal rains earlier in the week in the Philippines, where the death toll has climbed to 22.

The fire inside Jajaira Gonzalez dimmed to an ember in the next half-decade as she navigated depression, a high-profile relationship, astint in the Army and an anxiety-laced malaise familiar to many whose adolescent dreams just never came true.

After nine months of Israel’s all-out war against Hamas, the group’s government remains a key source of civil authority across the Gaza Strip - a testament to the organization’s reach and resiliency, and the limits of the military campaign aimed at eradicating its influence.

The head of Argentina’s soccer federation said the chaotic ending to its Olympic soccer match against Morocco on Wednesday “makes no sense,” and Argentina’s coach called the scene “a scandal.”

One year has passed since a dramatic coup in Niger. Coup leaders said they deposed the West African nation’s elected government for two key reasons: its security and economic crises. But those challenges have persisted, even worsened.

Bangladesh is crawling back to normalcy after more than a week of chaos triggered by student protests over a quota system in government jobs.

China has issued a rare compliment to the administration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for his order banning widespread and Chinese-run online gaming operations. Marcos has accused some of them of venturing into crimes, including financial scams, human trafficking, kidnappings, torture and murder.