Morocco’s ratification pushed the High Seas Treaty over the threshold needed to bring the first global legal framework for protecting international waters into force next year.
Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shibani travelled to Washington for the first official visit by a senior Damascus official to the United States in 25 years.
The European Union set out new tariffs and sanctions to pressure Israel over the Gaza war, targeting settlers, cabinet ministers and Hamas leaders while suspending some funding.
South America’s Mercosur bloc has signed a trade agreement with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland as global trade tensions and U.S. tariffs push countries to diversify.
A coast guard confrontation near the disputed shoal left a Filipino fisheries vessel damaged and revived concerns about coercion in the South China Sea.
A Human Rights Council-appointed commission said on September 16, 2025, that Israeli authorities had committed four acts covered by the Genocide Convention.
Washington has decertified Colombia for the first time in nearly three decades, citing cocaine production and political friction with President Gustavo Petro.
Seoul says it will investigate possible human rights violations after more than 300 South Koreans were detained in a US immigration raid at a Hyundai site in Georgia.