If just a fraction of the detainees escape, Afghan security officials warn, it would hand the Taliban a significant advantage on the battlefield, where it is…

Firefighters on the Italian island of Sicily battled dozens of blazes fueled by high temperatures, prompting the region’s governor to request assistance from Rome

Top Indian and Chinese army commanders have met after a gap of three months to discuss the expeditious disengagement of thousands of forces in a bid…

The U.S. official who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on genocide landed Saturday in Khartoum on a five-day trip to Sudan then to neighboring Ethiopia

The death toll from wildfires raging in Turkey’s Mediterranean towns has risen to six after two forest workers were killed, the country’s health minister says

They were more than the translators of words, they also interpreted the culture and the daily lives of the civilians caught between the Taliban and the…

Several thousand health care workers and their supporters have gathered in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, to demand wage increases and better conditions for those working in…

Authorities say 10 suspects have been detained over the killing of seven people from an ethnic Kurdish family in Turkey’s central Konya province

China and India have missed a United Nations deadline to submit fresh targets for cutting their greenhouse gas emissions

The vote was proposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. He now says he won’t participate, because he’s “not vengeful.”

Hundreds of black-clad Malaysian youth have rallied in central Kuala Lumpur to demand the resignation of the prime minister over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic,…

A provincial official says separate traffic accidents in eastern Afghanistan left at least 20 people dead and 18 others injured

At first, this remote village in Serbia seems sleepy and almost abandoned like many other in the Balkan country

A fierce cold snap is bearing down on homeless people in Brazil, and authorities, activists and religious leaders are doing what they can to keep them…

The United Nations says its office in western Afghanistan has come under fire and one of its guards was killed as the Taliban and Afghan forces…

A man who accosted England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty in a London park has pleaded guilty to assault

Rwandan troops have joined Mozambican forces to launch a major offensive against Islamic rebels in northern Mozambique as more troops arrive from South Africa and other…

U.S. Navy explosive experts believe a “drone strike” targeted an oil tanker that came under attack off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea, killing…

The Russian capital had required gloves in public places. Masks will still be required.

Italy and other major European countries are requiring health passports in everyday life.

The United Nations children’s agency says more than 100,000 children in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region could face the most extreme and life-threatening form of malnutrition in…

Hong Kong police have arrested a man on suspicion of insulting the national anthem

Greek authorities are ordering additional fire patrols and infrastructure maintenance inspections as the country grapples with a heat wave expected to last more than a week

With an enormous sum of European recovery money, Italy is directing much of it to environmental issues — including the leaks.

The HBO Max series has been slammed by critics in Britain as “wrong” and “disgusting.”

Two U.N. agencies are warning that hunger is expected to rise in 23 global hotspots in the next three months with the highest alerts for “catastrophic”…

A former British security guard who knifed nine cats to death in night-time attacks has been sentenced to more than five years in prison

“There is no other word for it but a betrayal of trust, the consequences of which are now playing out in Africa, in lives lost that…

Israeli health authorities began administering coronavirus booster shots Friday to people over 60 who’ve already received both does of a vaccine, in a bid to combat…

Canada’s chief public health officer says the country could face a fourth wave of COVID-19, driven by the delta variant, by the end of summer if…

He was one of the Dominican Republic’s most beloved musicians, known for up-tempo hits including “Patacón Pisao” and “¿Pitaste?”

Iraq’s military says a terrorist attack on a funeral procession has claimed many victims in the country’s northern province of Salahaddin

Turkish fire crews are continuing to fight blazes in southern Turkey that burned down homes and forced evacuations while the death toll in the wildfires rose…

Pakistan’s police say attackers threw a hand grenade at a police van in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing a policeman and wounding two others before…

The Afghans are part of a broader group of about 2,500 who are furthest along in the special immigrant visa process.

Haitian police say that a fourth officer has been arrested in the killing of President Jovenel Moïse

The incident was the deadliest in a string of recent attacks on shipping attributed to Iran or Israel.

Mrs. Pearl, who survived a pogrom against Iraqi Jews in her youth, helped establish a foundation in memory of her son, a Wall Street Journal reporter…

A Hong Kong protester has been sentenced to nine years in prison in the closely watched first case under Hong Kong’s national security law as Beijing…

“We advise against eating it,” the auction house said of the slice decorated in a royal coat-of-arms.

Authorities are putting the freewheeling industry on notice, amid a broad crackdown on Big Tech.

If passed, the legislation could result in prison terms of up to five years for practices intended to change a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or…

A bright pink lagoon is setting off red alarms for environmentalists in southern Argentina

The beheading of a young woman in an upscale neighborhood of Pakistan’s capital has shone a spotlight on the relentless violence against women in the country

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has shaken the north Pacific coast of Peru

Palestinian protesters have clashed with Israeli forces following the funeral of a Palestinian man killed by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank the previous…

He received a presidential medal for courage. Now he’s accused of supporting a global fraud ring.

U.S. President Joe Biden says he is moved by Kosovo’s awarding of a medal to his late son Beau, who was in the Balkan country 20…

As COVID-19 deaths rise in Myanmar, allegations are growing that the military government is using the coronavirus pandemic to consolidate power and crush opposition

Japan is set to expand the coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo to neighboring areas and the western city of Osaka in the wake of record-breaking…

Though quieter in the United States than a year ago, this month has seen a dramatic spasm of protest in other parts of the world.

A small city on Colombia’s Caribbean shore is being crowded with migrants from Haiti and Africa making what they hope will be a journey toward the…