Dubai’s airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, has introduced an iris-scanner that verifies one’s identity and eliminates the need for any human interaction when entering…

An Israeli woman who crossed illegally into Syria and was returned as part of a Russian-mediated deal last month has been charged in an Israeli court

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen says it has unleashed a new air campaign on the war-torn country’s capital and on other provinces

Each household will receive a free postcard to send to someone they miss. The U.S. Postal Service, meanwhile, has continued to battle significant delays.

In 1995, Diana unloaded on the royal family. Now the world awaits another blockbuster: Oprah Winfrey’s two-hour interview with Diana’s son, Prince Harry, and his wife,…

Afghan commandos have received the highest level of training from the United States, but their fight on the front lines appears to be unsustainable.

A popular politician stands accused of rape. The woman who reported it went into hiding.

Israel has reopened most of its economy as part of its final phase of lifting coronavirus lockdown measures imposed in recent months

China’s foreign minister has warned the Biden administration to roll back former President Donald Trump’s “dangerous practice” of showing support for Taiwan, the island democracy Beijing…

The push for digital proof of vaccines is growing.

Officials say the former head of women police in a southern Afghanistan province has been seriously wounded and her husband — also a police officer —…

Sri Lankan Roman Catholics have attended Mass dressed in black, with prayers and protests calling for justice for those killed in coordinated suicide bomb attacks on…

Myanmar has asked India to return several police officers who crossed the border following a coup in their country

Only four years after the city was in the hands of the caliphate, the pontiff was set to go there by helicopter, praying at a damaged…

China’s exports surged 60.6% over a year earlier in the first two months of 2021, after factories reopened and global demand started to recover from the…

Pope Francis has arrived in northern Iraq, where he plans to pray in the ruins of churches damaged or destroyed by Islamic State extremists

Demonstrators from Thailand’s student-led pro-democracy movement have held a peaceful protest outside Bangkok’s Criminal Court to bring public attention to the plight of several of their…

The South Korean and U.S. militaries are scaling back their annual exercises this month due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to support diplomacy on North Korea’s…

In a camp at the U.S.-Mexico border, some asylum seekers were told by officials that the U.S. government would reopen their cases and they would eventually…

Japan says it’s safe to release 1.25 million tons of treated water into the sea. But trust is in short supply.

The Saudi crown prince faces crimes against humanity charges as German justice looks beyond its borders.

Labor rights groups argue that mandatory vaccines would not stop the spread of the coronvirus but could lead to discrimination on socioeconomic and ethnic grounds.

Egypt’s presidency says President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has traveled to Sudan

He helped promote U.S. cultural and educational interests from Italy to Iran, Africa to Argentina.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has handily won a vote of confidence from the National Assembly, days after the embarrassing defeat of his ruling party’s key…

The Vaxi Taxi was a godsend for Leslie Reid

While Pope Francis is vaccinated, Iraq has only just begun a limited inoculation program.

Fast-spreading mutant versions of the coronavirus are powering another uptick in infections in Europe

In a camp at the U.S.-Mexico border, some asylum seekers were told by officials that the U.S. government would reopen their cases and they would eventually…

The pontiff is paying a visit to the modest home of one of Islam’s most influential figures.

Pope Francis is meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, one of the most senior clerics in Shiite Islam, in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf

U.N. diplomats say an attempt to get U.N. Security Council approval for a statement calling for an end to violence in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region and…

A key piece of the mystery around the arrest of the man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” has become clear

Since the early days of the religion, an array of Christians have lived in what is today Iraq.

The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar is calling for urgent Security Council action to reverse Myanmar’s military coup

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made his most pointed plea yet for the waiver of some patents.

The Czech health minister says the government has approved his plan to order medical and other university and high school students to help out at hospitals…

It was roughly one year ago, on the eve of a giant technology conference that usually brings more than 100,000 visitors to Barcelona, that business conventions…

A person familiar with the matter says Canada is getting a fourth vaccine to prevent COVID-19 as the country’s health regulator has cleared a Johnson &…

Black smoke has risen in Senegal’s capital as young people took to the streets again in support of the country’s main opposition leader, who was detained…

Police divers and conservation officers are searching for an unknown number of young crocodiles that escaped from a large breeding farm near a rural town in…

Cyprus says the European Union is ready to “actively contribute” to a new push to revive dormant talks on reunifying the ethnically divided island

Four of 47 pro-democracy activists charged under Hong Kong’s tough national security law have been released on bail after prosecutors dropped an appeal of an earlier…

At a time when seemingly everyone in Europe is wearing masks to battle COVID-19, the Swiss go to the polls Sunday to vote on a long-laid…

China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, has announced generally moderate new energy and climate targets that give little sign that it will step up…

Urgent calls for COVID-19 vaccine fairness are ringing through African countries as more are welcoming or rolling out doses from the global COVAX initiative

The pope’s travel plans have been moderated by the pandemic. Nonetheless, thousands of Iraqis lined roads around the airport to catch a glimpse.

The new president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has begun holding weekly news conferences hoping to win over a doubting Japanese public

The one-child policy has left a legacy that will be hard to undo, especially while access to IVF and egg-freezing is restricted to married, straight couples.

The sit-down, which airs on Sunday in the U.S. and on Monday in Britain, is reported to have the palace in a stir.

The chief lawyer for Greg Kelly, an American on trial in Japan on charges of under-reporting the compensation of Nissan’s former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, says his…