The U.N. Security Council has adopted a resolution extending an arms embargo on armed groups in Congo, which is facing an upsurge in violence in the…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will host New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in London on Friday for talks on security and boosting bilateral ties

Ecuador’s government and the country’s main Indigenous group have reached an agreement to end 18 days of often-violent strikes that had virtually paralyzed the country

Canada’s chief public health officer is warning of a possible COVID-19 resurgence in the fall and winter

Ukraine scores a key symbolic victory on the Black Sea island where a lone Ukrainian soldier famously tossed a salty expletive at a powerful Russian warship

Mexico’s president says the killing of a reporter in the northern border state of Tamaulipas may be linked to local politics

LGBTQ advocates say the recent fatal shooting of a 27-year-old Black transgender woman along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast reflects a disturbing pattern of violence against an already…

Iran says it’s ready for new indirect talks with the United States to overcome the last hurdles to revive its tattered 2015 nuclear deal with major…

Four Chinese nationals were among people kidnapped on Wednesday in an attack in northcentral Nigeria that left “many security personnel” dead, authorities said on Thursday

A United Nations panel focusing on Ethiopia says it’s alarmed over continued violations and abuses in the East African country

Costa Rica and Nicaragua are in the crosshairs while another system in the Gulf will bring heavy rain to Texas

The U.N. envoy to Libya says two officials from the country’s rival camps failed to reach an agreement on a constitutional framework for elections after U.N.-mediated…

Legislators asked for a review of the rules after MP Stella Creasy was told she could not bring her 3-month-old into a debate.

The remains of seven soldiers killed in World War I have been given full military burial after their remains were discovered during a gas pipeline construction…

Moscow framed the withdrawal from the Black Sea island as an effort to create a humanitarian corridor, while Kyiv said it came after intense artillery strikes…

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says a storm that has hurled rain on the southern Caribbean and the northern shoulder of South America is expected to…

International Criminal Court judges have issued arrest warrants for three men wanted on suspicion of committing war crimes during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War

Ahead of 4th of July weekend, reporters for The Washington Post spoke to people around the world to see how high fuel costs are affecting their…

Buckingham Palace confirmed that “lessons have been learned” following an investigation into complaints that Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, had bullied palace staff members.

The proposal, which does not address e-cigarettes that heat liquid rather than tobacco, is part of a wider plan to tackle cancer rates in the E.U.

The remains of Congo’s independence hero and first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba will be laid to rest in Kinshasa Thursday

Pounding rain following weeks of heavy downpours has triggered a mudslide in northeast India that killed at least seven people and left about 40 others missing

An advocacy group says Sudanese authorities have disrupted internet access ahead of scheduled mass protests denouncing last year’s military coup and demanding the immediate transfer of…

The lawyer for the only surviving attacker from the November 2015 terrorist massacre in Paris has criticized her client’s murder conviction and life prison sentence without…

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Thursday held the first major gathering of Islamic clerics and tribal elders since they seized power in August, with over 3,000 coming…

More than 7 million Somalis face acute food insecurity, with almost 250,000 at risk of imminent starvation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has shot back at Western leaders who mocked his athletic exploits, saying they would look “disgusting” if they tried to emulate his…

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New Zealand said that the Proud Boys’ role in the Jan 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot contributed to its blacklisting.

Russian troops are fighting to encircle the last bulwark of Ukraine’s resistance in an eastern province as funerals are to be held for those who were…

Ben & Jerry’s said it did not agree with the deal reached by its parent company Unilever.

NATO is facing rebukes from Moscow and Beijing after it declared Russia a “direct threat” and said China posed “serious challenges” to global stability

NATO leaders are arriving at a conference center in Madrid for the third and final day of their annual summit

As the war grinds on in Ukraine, communities that were badly damaged early in the invasion are starting to rebuild

Fierce fighting continued near Lysychansk in the east, where the regional governor said 15,000 civilians remain.

Thousands of Hindu devotees have begun an annual pilgrimage to an icy cave in Indian-controlled Kashmir amid massive security in the Muslim-majority region

The Israeli army says that Palestinian gunmen opened fire at Jewish worshipers at a flashpoint holy site in the occupied West Bank, wounding an Israeli military…

Hipólito Tica saved for decades to build himself a proper house in a working class neighborhood of Lima

After NATO leaders formally decided to invite Sweden and Finland to join the bloc, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Vladimir Putin “wanted less NATO,” and now…

Families across Mexico and Central America have begun learning that loved ones who left in search of a future in the United States are among the…

President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. takes office with the Philippine economy ascendant, but has to balance relations between Washington and Beijing.

The Nicaraguan government has closed an additional 101 civic and charity groups, including the local branch of the Missionaries of Charity established by Mother Teresa

A trilateral agreement between Finland, Sweden and Turkey appears to give few concrete concessions to Ankara.

For China’s leader, the 25th anniversary of the handover is a chance to cement power. But in the former U.K. colony, many are mourning the erosion…

Evidence suggests twin Russian airstrikes deliberately targeted a theater being used as a shelter in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s announcement this week caught the top defense officials of many NATO members off guard, leading them to question which of their forces,…