Hamas gunmen are guarding aid convoys in Gaza, and its police patrol city streets, sending a clear message: Hamas remains in charge.

Dangerous fire weather forecast in Southern California; South Korea's impeached president detained; Israel and Hamas said to be at closest point yet to a ceasefire; Two lunar landers on their way to the moon.

South Korean investigators have arrested impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol. The arrest comes amid allegations of insurrection linked to his controversial martial law declaration on the 3rd of December.

South Korea said it planned to improve the structures housing the antennas that guide landings at its airports this year after December's fatal crash of a Jeju Air plane, which skidded off the runway and burst into flames after hitting such a structure.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the short-range ballistic missiles were fired from a northern inland area and flew about 250 kilometers (155 miles) before landing in waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.

North Korea warned Friday that it would exercise its right to self-defense "more intensively" as it condemned recent joint air drills among South Korea, the United States and Japan.

A group of protesters gathered in Seoul on Friday to demand that Israel approve a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delayed a cabinet vote on the agreement.

Thirty-three hostages are set to be released over the next six weeks in the ceasefire deal reached on Wednesday. The remainder, including male soldiers, are to be released in a second phase that will be negotiated during the first. Hamas has said it will not release the remaining captives without a lasting ceasefire and a full Israeli withdrawal.

Negotiators said Hamas seemed ready to accept the deal ... Here’s what to know about South Korea’s leadership crisis. Investigators have 48 hours to question Yoon, after which they could ...

Former President Joe Biden was in full victory parade mode when he celebrated the ceasefire in Gaza that may lead to peace, but was it President Donald Trump and his bullying, tweeting diplomacy that solved this seemingly intractable Gordian knot?