The first pope ever to visit Iraq, Francis voiced sorrow and hope for a shrunken Christian community that has suffered persecution, and preached fellowship among religions.

From the rise in poaching to the waning of noise pollution, travel’s shutdown is having profound effects. Which will remain, and which will vanish?

Before Covid, ‘tourism was at this point where everything was about tourists.’ With the one-year anniversary of travel’s collapse, the state, like other overtouristed places, is…

Anti-abortion activists are suing to block a new law allowing the procedure, and many doctors in conservative areas have declared themselves conscientious objectors.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been detained for five years on charges of plotting to overthrow the government that her family and supporters say are baseless.

A pipeline carrying partially refined oil under the Ob River in Siberia burst on Saturday and the spill caught fire on the river’s surface.

Days after winning a Golden Globe for the film, Chloé Zhao was pilloried online for past remarks about China.

“I told myself, ‘It must be on water,’” said a walker who took a picture that has since gone viral. “My head doesn’t want to understand…

Security forces used rubber bullets and tear gas against demonstrators in the capital as fury rose over the government’s handling of the health crisis.

The head of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation apologized for forecasting a big drop in housing prices last year.

After a leading opposition figure, Ousmane Sonko, was accused of rape, demonstrators in one of West Africa’s most stable countries took to the streets to voice…

The pope’s four-day trip is intended to nurture ties with Shiite Muslims and encourage a Christian population decimated by years of strife.

As officials in Texas and Mississippi lifted statewide mask mandates, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offered, in a new study on Friday,…

The Biden administration sees cleaning up corruption in Ukraine as the best protection against Russian influence.

The ruling came days after a news report that Germany’s domestic intelligence agency planned to investigate the leading opposition party on suspicion of being a threat…

The message at the National People’s Congress was one of optimism about the strength of its economy and of struggle against an array of internal and…

Sama’ Abdulhadi helped build the Palestinian electronic music scene. Now she is at the center of a debate about Palestinian cultural identity.

The decree, which applies to public schools in the Muslim-majority country, came after a Christian father confronted an official at his daughter’s school.

Britain approved a measure allowing senior government ministers to take maternity leave without penalty. But some countries make no provisions for lawmakers who are new parents.

Beijing’s goal bodes well for the global economy, suggesting that China is willing to free up money to keep its engine humming.

Those who still suspect the outbreak in China may have been caused by a lab leak or accident are pressing for an independent investigation.

A governor eases some restrictions but makes a pointed distinction: “This is not Texas, this is not Mississippi — this is Connecticut.”

The move, under new E.U. rules, is part of an intensifying global competition for doses as vaccine shortages hamper rollouts and variants raise fears of virus…

The president admitted that Ali Boumendjel did not die by suicide, as France had previously claimed, but was killed by French troops during the Algerian war…

A scallop trawler from Nova Scotia was hit by fire, then lost power and began taking on water in stormy seas. Rescue teams from Canada and…

CBS is releasing tantalizing video clips of the couple, while scalding allegations are coming from Buckingham Palace staff members.

Myanmar’s women on the front lines.

A task force will push for better care for officers injured in unexplained incidents in Cuba, China and Russia that have caused an illness known as…

The Justice Department under the Trump administration declined to open a criminal investigation into the actions by Ms. Chao when she was transportation secretary.

Despite the danger, women have been at the forefront of the movement, rebuking the generals who ousted a female civilian leader.

Interim results from clinical trials suggested that Covaxin could be safe and effective, potentially removing one hurdle to New Delhi’s ambitious campaign to inoculate a vast…

As the military’s crackdown against demonstrators grows more deadly, the U.N.’s special representative for the country said the junta had rejected her requests to visit.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary withdrew his party from the center-right grouping in the European Parliament, heading off a move to expel them over democratic…

A complex legal battle in Kyiv is shedding light on the Americans who seek battle experience with far-right paramilitary units in Ukraine — and on the…

The attorney general offered his defense just two weeks after a separate case in which a government staff member said she was sexually assaulted in Parliament.

A Japanese billionaire, who previously sought a crew of artists and a new girlfriend, issued a call for applicants to join him on a weeklong journey…

At least 10 missiles were fired on the Ain al-Asad air base one week after U.S. airstrikes on Iran-backed militia positions along the Syrian-Iraqi border.

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It is the first time in Germany’s postwar history that a party represented in the federal Parliament has elicited this level of scrutiny as a potential…

But as Beijing rolls out a long-term plan, its top leader has also warned that “the United States is the biggest threat.’”

For the second time in a week, the secretary of state pointed to reports of atrocities in the Ethiopian region.