Foreign Affairs

Pop-Shakespearean musical “& Juliet” leads the race for Britain's Olivier theater awards, where “Fleabag” creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge is up for two trophies. The “Romeo and Juliet”-inspired show, with music by...

Chanel staged a comparatively low-key affair for Paris Fashion Week as the coronavirus outbreak kept many of the regular VIPs and fashion editors away. The stalwart Parisian design house streamed...

Victims of clerical sex abuse have expressed skepticism over a Vatican investigative commission that will collect statements and information about abuse in Mexico, though most said they would meet with...

The German Bishops' Conference elected Bishop Georg Baetzing of Limburg as its new leader on Tuesday. Fellow Roman Catholic bishops picked the 58-year-old Baetzing to follow Cardinal Reinhard Marx as...

The Spanish government Tuesday approved a new draft bill on sex crimes that makes consent a key determinant in cases, freeing victims of having to prove that violence or intimidation...

The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog says it has identified three locations in Iran where the country possibly stored undeclared nuclear material or undertook nuclear-related activities without declaring it to international observers....

A German cruise ship with 1,200 passengers is moored in southern Norway waiting for the test results of two passengers who had been on land to be tested for the...

Poland's constitutional court is expected to rule Tuesday whether recent judicial appointments made under regulations introduced by the right-wing government are legitimate. The Constitutional Tribunal was asked to decide on...

Japan's Olympic minister said Tuesday the contract to hold the Tokyo Games only specifies the event has to be held during 2020. Seiko Hashimoto's response to a question in the...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Tuesday the government has frozen all of his bank accounts, as well as the accounts of his wife, his two children and his elderly...

Tens of thousands of students in virus cluster zones are home from school in France on Tuesday, with a smaller number in Germany and Poland facing quarantines or days without...

A jailed pro-Catalan independence politician was allowed to leave prison Tuesday to take up part-time teaching work at a university. Oriol Junqueras, a former vice president for Spain's wealthy northeastern...

Philippine officials said Tuesday they allowed an armed man who took dozens of people hostage in a mall to hold a news conference to encourage him to free his captives...

Retired doctors may be called back to work, police could stop investigating minor crimes and local authorities may struggle to deal with the burden of extra deaths if a new...

More than 700 police officers searched 30 homes and businesses across Germany on Tuesday in a crackdown on human trafficking from Vietnam, authorities said. The raids focused on 13 suspects,...

China on Tuesday denounced a move by the Trump administration to cap the number of Chinese state-run media journalists who can work in the United States as “based on the...

Fatima Mekhnas' boots sink into the golden sand as she surveys the last beach in Morocco's north. Optimism glows from her eyes, a reflection of a dream fulfilled after decades...

Facing a wave of nearly a million people fleeing fighting in northern Syria, Turkey has thrown open its borders with Greece to thousands of refugees and other migrants trying to...

German police on Tuesday raided the homes of 12 people who are suspected of having formed a far-right group that wanted to attack immigrants and foreigners. The suspects are aged...

Syrian government shelling killed one Turkish soldier and wounded another in northwest Syria, Turkey's Defense Ministry announced, days after serious clashes between the two armies appeared to signal a new...

Thousands of migrants searched for ways to cross Greece's land border on Tuesday, days after Turkey declared its borders with Europe open in an attempt to force the EU into...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears within striking range of forming Israel's next government, after plunging his country into a yearlong political crisis while he maneuvered to stay in power and...

Wikipedia's Farsi-language website appears to be disrupted in Iran after a close confidant to the country's supreme leader died of the new coronavirus, an activist group said Tuesday, as the...

Israel's embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced an uncertain path to staying in office on Tuesday, even as preliminary results showed his Likud party pulling ahead of its opponents in...

Now that the U.S. has signed a deal with the Taliban to eventually leave Afghanistan, it will soon be up to Afghans on both sides of the conflict to decide...

Iranians hoarded medical supplies, Italians urged doctors out of retirement and South Koreans prepared to pump billions into relief efforts Tuesday as the virus epidemic firmed its hold around the...

Nepal's popular communist prime minister is in the hospital awaiting his second kidney transplant after months of illness. Khadga Prasad Oli, 69, was admitted to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised an earlier live-fire rocket artillery exercise to confirm his military's combat readiness and “further kindle the flames of training revolution,” state media said...

Indonesia's most active volcano erupted Tuesday, spewing sand and pyroclastic material and sending massive smoke-and-ash column as high as 6,000 meters (19,680 feet) into the sky. The eruption of Mount...

Colombia's Constitutional Court voted Monday in favor of upholding the nation's restrictive abortion law in a ruling that had been closely watched around Latin America. Magistrates ruled to continue allowing...

Some scientists who gathered Monday for a two-day conference on the mysterious illnesses suffered by U.S. and Canadian diplomats in Havana said they suspected pesticides as a possible culprit, although...

A powerful ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Monday denied any type of armed threats against U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaidó as shown in a widely circulated photograph. The...

The Vatican is sending its top two sex crimes investigators to Mexico on a fact-finding and assistance mission as the Catholic hierarchy in the world's second-largest Catholic country begins to...

The United Nations is drastically curtailing a conference that had been expected to bring up to 12,000 people from its 193 member nations to New York next week for a...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday submitted a slew of new proposed amendments to the country's Constitution that include a mention of God and describe marriage as a heterosexual union....

The U.N. envoy for Libya announced his resignation on Monday, as a fragile cease-fire in the North African country continued to crumble. Ghassan Salame tweeted he was stepping down as...

A Russian icebreaker has made a successful supply run to deliver new crew and goods to an international scientific expedition investigating the depths of the high Arctic in winter. Germany's...

Thousands of Albanians rallied on Monday against the country's left-wing government, responding to a call from the president who accuses it of violating the constitution and of links to organized...

Malaysia's new prime minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, appealed Monday to the divided nation for a chance to prove his mettle amid doubts over his legitimacy, and vowed to form a corruption-free...

Long-awaited trade talks between the European Union and Britain kicked off Monday amid deep tensions over Prime Minister Boris Johnson's threat to walk away from the negotiations if not enough...