Foreign Affairs

Former prisoner Alan Gross says he is speaking out about Bernie Sanders' comments during a 2014 meeting in a Cuban prison after hearing the Vermont Senator defend Fidel Castro's literacy...

Alan Gross lost 110 pounds and several teeth while imprisoned for five years in Cuba. But during a visit in prison by Senator Bernie Sanders in 2014, Gross says the...

President Nicolás Maduro wants Venezuelan women to have many children as a way to boost the country, which has seen millions of people flee in recent years to escape its...

The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Colombia warned Wednesday that ongoing human rights violations and the forced displacement of thousands from their homes because of...

The paintings, drawings, tapestries and sketches in the most ambitious exhibition of Renaissance superstar Raphael's works are collectively insured for 4 billion euros ($4.4 billion) against theft, vandalism or other...

The U.N. envoy for South Sudan said Wednesday that the country's new coalition government faces “a daunting array of challenges” that will test its unity after six years of civil...

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All sporting events in Italy will take place without fans present for at least the next month due to the virus outbreak in the country, the Italian government announced on...

Iran says requests from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog for information and access to Iran's nuclear sites must have a legal basis, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported Wednesday. Behrouz...

With millions of Haitians potentially facing famine, the United Nations on Wednesday launched an emergency humanitarian appeal seeking $253 million to help the most vulnerable who are in need of...

A summit between the Turkish and Russian leaders on Thursday may be the last chance to work out a deal that avoids further calamity in Syria's northwest. Faced with mounting...

A fight broke out in the Turkish parliament between lawmakers from opposing parties Wednesday during a tense discussion about Turkey's military involvement in northwest Syria. Video images showed dozens of...

Spain's minister of equality defended herself Wednesday from attacks by right-wing opposition parties who have criticized her use of a bold slogan to support the government's draft bill on sex...

A left-wing governor returned to office in the eastern German state of Thuringia on Wednesday, a month after state lawmakers voted him out of the job with far-right support and...

The Louvre museum in Paris is temporarily no longer accepting cash as part of new measures that helped persuade employees worried about catching the coronavirus to return to work Wednesday....

Israel looked set to slide back into political deadlock on Wednesday as the final votes were being tallied from the third election in less than a year, with Prime Minister...

Nepal's prime minister had a successful kidney transplant on Wednesday and is in stable condition, doctors said. Khadga Prasad Oli's new kidney is already functioning and he is recovering at...

Serbia's president on Wednesday set April 26 as the date of a parliamentary election which many opposition parties plan to boycott because of his firm control of media and the...

Police appealed to Vietnamese nationals who entered the U.K. illegally in October to help them with their investigation of the smuggling operation that led to 39 people being found dead...

When the U.S. Census rolls out on March 12, Caribbean immigrants like Felicia Persaud will get to do something many have wanted to do ever since they filled out their...

Iran says the new coronavirus has killed 92 people amid 2,922 confirmed cases across the Islamic Republic. Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour announced the new figures at a news conference...

A lawyer for Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, who just won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear, says he's been summoned to serve a one-year prison sentence. Nasser Zarafshan told The...

Once again, the “Mona Lisa” is all alone. The Louvre, the world's most visited museum and home to Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, did not open as scheduled Wednesday morning...

Israel looked set to slide back into political deadlock on Wednesday as the final votes were being tallied from the country's third election in less than a year, with Prime...

The U.S. military says it has conducted an airstrike against Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, only days after American and Taliban officials signed an ambitious peace deal in the Mideastern...

Turkey said that two more of its soldiers were killed Wednesday in a Syrian government attack in northwestern Syria, as steady clashes between the two national armies continued to rack...

The Latest on the virus outbreak (all times local): 3:30 p.m. India says its number of confirmed coronavirus cases has jumped to 28, up from just five. Health Minister Harsh...

China prepared to close temporary hospitals while South Korea struggled to find enough beds for its sick Wednesday as the virus epidemic that began in Asia increasingly troubled the West....

Turkey accused Greece of opening fire at migrants trying to cross the border, killing at least one, as Athens dismissed the charge as "fake news" and worries grew that Europe...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political and legal peril increased Wednesday, as a completed parliamentary election vote tally affirmed his party as the country's largest, but left his right-wing bloc...

Malaysia's new leader has postponed the next session of Parliament by more than two months, effectively delaying plans by Mahathir Mohamad's former ruling alliance to seek a no-confidence vote against...

Street performer Angel Alvarado saw long lines of people waiting to buy overpriced face masks and cleaning products at stores in Ecuador's second largest city days after an outbreak of...

China on Tuesday denounced a move by the Trump administration to reduce the number of Chinese state-run media journalists who can work in the United States by more than one-third...

The top U.N. humanitarian official for Syria said Tuesday the crisis in northwest Idlib where nearly one million people have fled to avoid escalating hostilities is “probably the biggest crisis...

The U.N. envoy for Iraq warned Tuesday that the country and its people are being “pushed into the unknown” by political indecisiveness and dissent that is continuing to paralyze government...

Nicaraguan police arrested a U.S. citizen in the killing of two women in the tourist destination of Granada, the government said Tuesday. The official outlet El 19 Digital said Larry...

Immigration officials deported 119 Cubans back to Havana on Friday, in a flight that departed from Miami International Airport. The Cuba repatriation flight is at least the third in the...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political future remained up in the air Tuesday as preliminary results and exit polls from Israel's third election in under a year indicated the embattled leader...

Cyprus is ramping up for a surge in illegal immigration after Turkey's president made good on a threat to stop intercepting people trying to reach Europe, Cypriot officials said Tuesday....

In her first known official statement, the younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday leveled diatribes and insults on South Korea for protesting over her country's...