President Donald Trump plans to attend a meeting of NATO leaders next month in London, where he will try to convince U.S. allies that they should…

Iraqi security and medical officials say two protesters have been killed and at least 25 others wounded in ongoing confrontations with security forces in a central…

Last weekend, the Polish leader sent an official complaint to Netflix over a map that he said “places several German Nazi concentration camps within modern-day Poland’s…

Iraqi officials say police are firing tear gas, live ammunition to disperse protesters in central Baghdad; 2 killed

Congo’s president hopes deadly Ebola outbreak will end in the coming weeks

More than 18 months after Miguel D�az-Canel assumed the presidency of Cuba, he’s given foreign journalists unprecedented access to what has become a signature activity of…

Turkey’s interior minister says an American Islamic State group suspect who was stranded in a no man’s land between Greece and Turkey, has been deported to…

Turkey says American IS suspect struck at border with Greece has been deported to US

A Taliban spokesman says three Taliban prisoners who were to be freed in exchange for an American and an Australian national, both kidnapped in 2016, are…

Chile’s most important political parties have agreed to call for a new constitution to replace one impose by a military dictatorship almost 40 years ago

AP Photos: Protesters who barricaded themselves inside Hong Kong’s universities have tried to turn the campuses into armed camps, resorting to medieval weapons to stop police…

Lithuania’s spy chief, Darius Jauniskis, says the two Lithuanian men convicted of spying in Russia “have been reunited with their families” after they were released as…

The pitch ahead of next month’s elections could be attractive to households that currently pay on average $38 a month for good but not great Internet.

Lithuania’s spy chief says Russia has released two Lithuanian men convicted of spying; Norwegian will also be released

Many Iranians are angry after authorities abruptly raised fuel prices by up to 50% and imposed rationing without any prior warnings to the public

Cairo airport authorities say they have arrested a French passenger, who was allegedly carrying hundreds of pills of banned drugs in his luggage

A court in the Czech Republic has convicted a Slovak national of public endangerment and promoting terrorism and sentenced him to six-and-a-half years in prison

After the launch this week of the Kuniao browser, China’s tech-savvy circles have been lit up with a mix of curiosity and suspicion. But mostly suspicion.

The British Labour Party is expanding its plan for public ownership of big industries

Belarus is holding a parliamentary election this weekend but with top opposition candidates kept off the ballot, only loyalists to the nation’s authoritarian president will win

Mongolian political fringe groups have protested in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, to demand the dissolution of parliament as economic woes grip the country

Sweden’s culture minister has rejected criticism by the Chinese ambassador of her participation in the awarding of a press freedom prize to a publisher detained in…

A Vietnamese court has sentenced a music teacher to 11 years in jail for what it says were “anti-state” Facebook posts

A prominent human rights group is warning that migrants trying to reach Western Europe are living in “dangerously cold and harsh conditions” in Bosnia where tensions…

Germany’s parliament has approved a bill to introduce a price for carbon emissions in the transport and heating sectors as part of a broader package of…

French police are launching a fresh appeal for witnesses and victims to come forward to aid their probe of Jeffrey Epstein and allegations that one of…

Polish state TV faces criticism for its coverage of what it called the ‘emotional’ and ‘historic’ first visit by a Pole to the US after tourist…

Juliusz Paetz, the former Roman Catholic archbishop of Poznan in Poland who was banned from active service after allegations he sexually abused young priests and clerics,…

South African police disperse refugees protesting recent anti-immigrant attacks

Turkey’s state-run media says an American man suspected of being an Islamic State group member remains in no man’s land on the border between Turkey and…

Mozambique’s top court rejects opposition vote challenge amid claims of irregularities

A dump of heavy snow in southern France has brought down power lines and trees, killing one person, and caused widespread traffic disruption

Shares in BT have dropped after Britain’s main opposition party announced plans to nationalize part of the telecommunications company and provide free broadband internet if it…

Protesters who had barricaded themselves in a Hong Kong university this week have begun to leave

Turkey’s state-run news agency says police have detained four mayors over their suspected links to Kurdish rebels, as part of an ongoing crackdown on the country’s…

Twenty-four prominent writers and entertainers, including John LeCarre and Simon Callow, have written a letter saying they won’t vote for Labour Party candidates in next month’s…

Syria’s Assad says American presence in Syria will lead to ‘resistance’ that will eventually force US troops to leave

Business leaders from Japan and South Korea have met in Tokyo seeking ways to cope with a flare up in tensions between the two U.S. allies

Iraqi officials say protester killed, over 40 wounded in renewed clashes overnight in central Baghdad

Lithuania’s president has pardoned two Russians convicted of spying, a move seen as a step toward a spy swap with neighboring Russia that could include a…

Strike begins at South Africa’s state-owned airline as workers fear nearly 1,000 job cuts

Pyongyang has threatened “shocking punishment” if the allies’ joint maneuvers go ahead.

Trump’s thirst for Middle Eastern oil may be illegal. But he keeps invoking it anyway.

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says South Korea is wealthy enough to pay a bigger share of the cost of having U.S. troops on its soil

The death toll for wildfires raging across Australia’s most populous state has risen to four as authorities warn of worsening conditions to come

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó is calling people across the crisis-torn nation to flood the streets for protests nearly a year since launching an urgent campaign…

A humanitarian crisis is worsening each day at a refugee camp just a short walk from the U.S.-Mexico border

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is sending a personal envoy to Bolivia to support efforts to find a peaceful solution to the Andean nation’s political crisis

Northwestern Europe has already experienced worsening floods since 1960. That trend is likely to continue.

A strong earthquake has hit off the Indonesian coast in the Molucca Sea, creating risk of tsunami risk in nearby areas

Bolivia’s interim leader says Evo Morales cannot run in new elections

The European Union has launched legal action against the United Kingdom following the country’s decision not to name a candidate for the bloc’s executive arm

Pakistani security officials say they have arrested two suspected members of the Islamic State group in a raid on their hideout in the eastern Punjab province

Key facts on Sri Lanka as it prepares to elect new president

A second U.S. embassy staffer in Kyiv overheard a key cellphone call between President Donald Trump and his ambassador to the European Union discussing the need…

AP source: 2nd US embassy official overheard President Trump’s call with Sondland about need for Ukraine investigations

Worries about Islamic extremism are paramount for many Sri Lankan voters while others hope to block former leaders accused of human rights violations from returning to…

The Delhi government is distributing 5 million pollution masks to try to change behavior.

Scottish court frees wanted Catalan ex-politician on bail

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered outside the parliament building in the country of Georgia to protest the legislature’s failure to pass an elections-reform measure promised by…

The latest official to lead the Department of Homeland Security has been sworn in, and acting Secretary Chad Wolf is fifth person to head the agency…

“The worst thing we can do is become a bargaining chip,” Ukraine’s foreign minister said of the impeachment hearings. “Unfortunately, we are such a chip now.”

Australia’s Qantas operates 19 ½ hour London-Sydney flight

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is pressing European members of the multi-national coalition to fight the Islamic State to take and prosecute citizens of their countries…

A new report says senior State Department officials early in the Trump administration grew suspicious of a career staffer after an article in a conservative publication…

Patricia Anton, 63, had lived in Puerto Plata for more than 15 years.

Members of the BRICS group of nations say in a statement that they are committed to implementing the Paris climate agreement and says there cannot be…

Syrian state media is reporting that government forces have started deploying in areas close to the Turkish border in the country’s northeast

Protesters holed up in a Hong Kong university have partially cleared a road they were blocking and demanded the government commit to holding local elections on…

Some call it a Latin Spring, but demonstrators are rising up against a range of governments, for a variety of reasons. Here’s what they have in…

Bulgaria’s supreme judicial panel has voted to override a presidential veto of the election of the new chief prosecutor, despite criticism from the public

AP Interview: Bolivia ex-president Evo Morales wants UN mediation, perhaps with Pope Francis

Turkish officials say Turkey has deported seven German and one British Islamic State suspects to their home countries

AP Interview: Evo Morales calls on United Nations, possibly Pope Francis, to mediate Bolivia’s political crisis

The volley of insults came after Biden called North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a “murderous dictator.”

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has pardoned thousands of prisoners including 32 activists and others being held on ‘security’ charges

German automaker Daimler says it plans to slash costs by 1.4 billion euros ($1.54 billion) by cutting every tenth managerial position and other austerity measures

Turkey deports 7 German and 1 British IS suspects back to home countries

Cuban President Miguel D�az-Canel is making his first trip to the town of Caimanera, the closest point in Cuba to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo…

As Hong Kong’s protests against China’s influence continue, here’s an explanation of how it got to this point.

A special United Nations envoy says the Venezuela migration crisis has now entered a new stage in which many of those who have fled are increasingly…

The man, whom Turkish media have identified as a 39-year-old American of Jordanian origin, has been stuck at the Greek-Turkish border since Monday.

International Criminal Court judges have approved a request from prosecutors to open an investigation into crimes committed against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority

International Criminal Court judges authorize probe into crimes against Myanmar’s Rohingya minority

Prosecutors released recordings showing close cooperation between rebels and Russia during time of MH-17 destruction.

Turkey’s president says his country would be willing to purchase U.S.-made Patriot defense systems but will not dispose of the Russian S-400 system

230 Chileans blinded in protests as police fire pellet guns at faces

The Spanish government says Catalan poet Joan Margarit has won the 2019 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor

Moldova’s parliament has voted to back a new, technocratic government led by a former finance minister and presidential adviser

A database project says it has documented over 130 attacks on medical facilities in Yemen since April 2014 in apparent war crimes by all parties to…

Thousands of exasperated nurses, doctors and other public hospital workers are marching through Paris to demand more staff and resources after years of cost cuts

North Korea says the United States has proposed a resumption of stalled nuclear negotiations in December

The European Union law enforcement agency says police across the continent have concluded a two-year investigation into a “massive” criminal network that was using trucks to…

The Republican National Committee will hold its winter meetings at Trump National Doral, bringing business to the president’s property

A human rights group accuses Egypt’s government of silencing rights advocates by continuing to bar them from travelling, while the UN is holding its periodic review…

Gaza’s ruling Hamas faction stayed quiet as Israel targeted rival Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Santa Claus is at it again, answering thousands of Christmas letters from children around the world at a special post office in the northern German town…

International investigators piecing together a criminal case in the July 2014 shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine says that evidence suggests links between…

Despite a growing list of contradictions in his testimony, an attorney for the embattled diplomat says he “has no intention of resigning.”

The Austrian army says a 31-year-old soldier appears to have been killed by two service dogs he was tasked with feeding