A former nurse who co-founded and once ran the cult-like NXIVM group, where prosecutors say women were brainwashed, branded like animals and coerced into sex, was sentenced Wednesday to 42 months in prison but won't be locked up until January.
The Taliban's appointment of hardline veteran figures to top cabinet positions in Afghanistan was widely seen as a signal Wednesday that the group was not looking to broaden its base and present a more tolerant face to the world, especially around concerns about women's rights in the country.
One of the largest Confederate monuments in the U.S. came down Wednesday as workers removed a figure of Gen. Robert E. Lee that towered over Virginia's capital city for more than a century and became a target of protesters seeking to abolish symbols of racial injustice.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said on Wednesday that the organization had helped around 100 members of the "Olympic community" in Afghanistan to leave the country on humanitarian visas.
North Korea was formally suspended from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics by the IOC on Wednesday as punishment for refusing to send a team to the Tokyo Games citing the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a custom-built secure complex embedded in a 13th-century courthouse, France began the trial of 20 men accused in the Islamic State group's 2015 attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead and hundreds injured.
South Korea has reported more than 2,000 new cases of the coronavirus, approaching a one-day record set last month, as officials expressed concern about an erosion in citizen vigilance amid prolonged pandemic restrictions.
Canada's diplomats and development officials praised this country's progress on the effort to promote gender equality in Afghanistan in the months before the Taliban swept to power. Experts now question whether that effort was realistic or sustainable.
A massive fire raged through an overcrowded prison near Indonesia's capital early Wednesday, killing at least 41 inmates and injuring 80 others.
