Foreign Affairs

Scientists say that half of the world's sandy beaches could disappear by the end of the century if climate change continues unchecked. Researchers at the European Union's Joint Research Center...

Israeli forces on Monday fired a missile at a car on the edge of Syria's Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, after the vehicle was allegedly used in an attempted sniper attack from...

Investigators for the U.N.-backed Human Rights Council said on Monday that they had found evidence of war crimes in Syria committed by nearly all sides in the conflict during the...

Bangladeshi security officials on Monday fatally shot seven suspected members of a Rohingya refugee gang allegedly involved in drug dealing and human trafficking, officials said. The killings occurred near a...

Kosovo's prime minister on Monday sent a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump informing him that his country will gradually lift a 100% tariff on Serb and Bosnian goods as...

Frankfurt's international airport was shut down temporarily after a drone was spotted near the facility on Monday, German federal police said. “There are currently no departures and landings,” police said...

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

German Chancellor Angela Merkel met representatives of migrant groups Monday to reassure them that her government takes the issue of racism seriously following several attacks by far-right extremists in recent...

China on Monday pledged its support for the U.S.-Taliban peace agreement in Afghanistan and called for the “orderly and responsible" withdrawal of foreign troops to avoid a power vacuum and...

An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced to death 37 defendants, including one of the country's most high-profile militants, following their conviction of terrorism-related charges. The Cairo Criminal Court said the...

The death toll in India's capital from riots last week between Hindus and Muslims rose to 46, officials said Monday, a day after false rumors of new violence led to...

Thousands of migrants were trying to find a way across Turkey's western border with Greece Monday, with only dozens managing to pass through either border fences or fording the river...

On a sunny February day, Catherine Amidu looked downcast. The protective alarm she received in October had not been working for close to two weeks, she said. The 17-year-old with...

The Louvre Museum was closed again Monday as management was meeting with staff worried about the spread of the new virus in the world's most-visited museum. Most of the Louvre's...

The spreading virus from China has been reported in more than 60 countries and puts the Tokyo Olympics at risk. The Olympics are to open on July 24 — less...

Syrian government forces and their allies retook early Monday a key northwestern town days after losing it to rebel forces, pro-government media and an opposition war monitor said. The town's...

Thousands of migrants were trying to find a way across Turkey's western border with Greece Monday, with only dozens managing to pass through either border fences or fording rivers, after...

President Vladimir Putin says that Russia has developed unique offense weapons without the intention of starting a war with anyone but to maintain “strategic balance” and “strategic stability” in the...

Israelis went to the polls Monday in an unprecedented third national election in less than a year, one aimed at breaking a political deadlock over who should lead the nation....

Barbara never thought she would leave Nicaragua. But early one morning, she kissed her sleeping son goodbye. She had spent the night watching him in his bed. It was almost...

Trying to stem the outbreak of the new coronavirus, Iran on Monday held an online-only briefing by its Foreign Ministry as Britain began evacuating nonessential staff and families from the...

A terrorism trial starts Monday for a Dutch man of Turkish descent who allegedly opened fire on a tram in the central city of Utrecht last year, killing four people....

Baseball's final qualifying event for the Tokyo Olympics has been postponed from April to June because of concerns over the virus outbreak that has infected nearly 89,000 people and caused...

Philippine police on Monday surrounded a shopping mall in an upscale district in Manila after gunshots rang out inside and sent shoppers rushing out in panic. Police officials did not...

Israel's long-serving ruler Benjamin Netanyahu faces off against former army chief Benny Gantz on Monday in the country's third parliamentary elections in under 12 months. The battle between Netanyahu's Likud...

Israel is holding its third election in less than a year on Monday, with over 6.4 million eligible voters set to cast their ballots for the 23rd Knesset, or parliament....

Israelis began voting Monday in the country's unprecedented third election in less than a year to decide whether longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stays in power despite his upcoming criminal...

The Greenhills Mall in San Juan, Manila, was locked down after reports that a gunman had taken a number of hostages inside the complex. Police said around 20 people had...

North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles into its eastern sea on Monday as it begins to resume weapons demonstrations after a months-long hiatus that could have been forced by the...

South Korea's military says North Korea has fired at least one unidentified projectile. The launch on Monday came two days North Korea's state media said leader Kim Jong Un supervised...

The head of the largest of 16 temporary hospitals in the Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak says his staff has had a heavy workload but should...

Amid a global health crisis, Italian soccer teams and Serie A's governing body are squabbling with each other about when to play games with Inter Milan chief executive Giuseppe Marotta...

Iraq's prime minister-designate announced his withdrawal from the post Sunday night after failing to secure parliamentary support for his Cabinet selection, prolonging the political deadlock in the country amid multiple...

Italian soccer was thrown further into chaos on Sunday after the government issued a new decree extending the suspension of all sporting events in regions affected by the virus outbreak...

Ernesto Cardenal, the renowned poet and Roman Catholic cleric who became a symbol of revolutionary verse in Nicaragua and around Latin America, and whose suspension from the priesthood by Saint...

Police in North Macedonia said a mobile border patrol on Sunday found 78 migrants, including six minors, crammed in a van during a routine checkup in the central part of...

Organizers have canceled next weekend's season-opening MotoGP race in Qatar because of “travel restrictions brought into force affecting passengers from Italy” due to the coronavirus outbreak. The race was scheduled...

Syria's foreign minister hosted officials from Libya's east-based government on Sunday, the official Syrian news agency SANA reported. Walid al-Moallem's meeting was the first announced visit by Libyan officials to...

All it took was a thinly veiled suggestion by a Turkish official that his country would no longer prevent migrants and refugees from trying to cross Turkey's borders into the...

Health officials in the Dominican Republic on Sunday reported the first confirmed case of the new coronavirus in the tourist-rich Caribbean, a 62-year-old Italian citizen. Public Health Minister Rafael Sánchez...