Foreign Affairs

Ratings agency Moody's is lowering its forecast for global auto sales because of the new coronavirus outbreak. It now reckons that sales will decline 2.5% decline in 2020 instead of...

Local authorities declared a 24-hour strike on two eastern Greek islands Wednesday to protest government plans to build new migrant detention camps there. The strike shut down services on the...

Italy sought Wednesday to calm fears and rally international support for its efforts to contain the coronavirus even as its caseload rose to 374 and more European travelers linked to...

Shelling and airstrikes by Syrian government forces killed at least three people on Wednesday in northwestern Syria, where dozens of villages, including major rebel strongholds in the last opposition-held area,...

Spain's prime minister and the leader of Catalonia will open formal talks Wednesday in hopes of resolving the festering political crisis provoked by the region's separatist movement. Prime Minister Pedro...

A former senior aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Ukraine will never be able to regain control over the separatist-controlled east. Vladislav Surkov, who lost his job...

Rival Libyan politicians met on Wednesday for U.N.-sponsored political talks in Geneva aimed at ending the latest round of fighting over the country's capital, Tripoli. The resumption of political negotiations,...

The Vatican was going ahead with plans for Pope Francis to celebrate the Ash Wednesday ritual kicking off the Catholic Church's Lenten season, but elsewhere in Italy Masses were canceled...

Irish authorities recommended postponing next month's Six Nations rugby match against Italy on Wednesday because of concerns about the spread of the virus that began in China. Italy is scheduled...

For two years federal investigators in Miami have patiently waited for reams of Swiss bank records to be turned over so they could bring a monumental money-laundering case against a...

After months in a Rome jail, a pair of boyhood pals from California went on trial Wednesday, accused of murdering an Italian policeman during a summer vacation in Italy. The...

The U.S. and South Korean militaries, used to being on guard for threats from North Korea, face a new and formidable enemy that could hurt battle readiness: a virus spreading...

Three Irish soldiers were injured in a roadside bomb attack on a multinational convoy of United Nations peacekeepers in Mali, the German military said Wednesday. The Bundeswehr said the attack...

Increasing numbers of people applying for asylum in the European Union are arriving from countries with visa-free travel agreements with the bloc, notably from Latin America, rather than entering without...

Patients on stretchers crammed the emergency room, while relatives of the dead wailed outside a morgue as injured people continued to pour into a public hospital after three days of...

Israel's foreign minister denounced Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders on Wednesday for what he called his “horrifying comment" about Jerusalem, saying that those who support Israel would not back Sanders' presidential...

A 60-year-old Frenchman has died of the new virus in a Paris hospital, the second virus-related death in France since it emerged in China late last year. The head of...

Iranian state television says 19 people have been killed by the new coronavirus amid 139 confirmed cases in the country so far. The announcement on Wednesday by a state TV...

Egypt was preparing to hold a full-honors military funeral Wednesday for the country's former autocratic President Hosni Mubarak, who for decades was the face of stability in the Middle East...

Ethiopia will skip the latest round of U.S.-brokered talks this week on a disputed Nile dam project with Egypt and Sudan, the country's water ministry announced Wednesday. A final deal...

Authorities in western Germany said Wednesday that a man who contracted COVID-19 is in critical condition and has been taken to a specialist hospital in Duesseldorf. The health ministry of...

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the opposition provoked police violence during mass protests in Moscow last summer, with the sole aim of showing “what kind of heroes they are and...

A bus plunged into a river in western India on Wednesday, killing at least 24 people from a wedding party, police said. The driver lost control of the bus after...

Malaysia's king held unusual consultations with lawmakers for a second day Wednesday to resolve a political vacuum caused by the abrupt collapse of the ruling coalition and the resignation of...

Australia's prime minister and Israel's president on Wednesday discussed an extradition request for a former school principal whose alleged abuse of Australian school girls has cast a shadow over the...

A spokesman for the Japanese government on Wednesday said the International Olympic Committee and local organizers are going as planned with the Tokyo Olympics. The comments from spokesman Yoshihide Suga...

Fidel Castro has been haunting American politicians for decades. Now it's Bernie Sanders' turn. During Tuesday's night's presidential primary debate in South Carolina, Sanders, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination,...

Hindus carrying pickaxes and iron rods hurled rocks at Muslims protesting a new citizenship law Tuesday on a second day of deadly clashes that cast a shadow over President Donald...

Hollywood power couple Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are set to return to Israel as co-hosts of this year's Genesis Prize ceremony. The Genesis Prize Foundation announced Wednesday that the...

South Korea has reported 169 more cases of a new virus, mostly in the southeast city of Daegu and nearby areas, bringing its total number of infections to 1,146. South...

Indigenous groups and Costa Rica's president on Tuesday mourned the killing of yet another indigenous activist,amid continuing land disputes in the Central American country. The National Front of Indigenous Peoples...

Three people were shot to death in a small town near Puerto Rico's northern coast, police said Tuesday. The unidentified bodies of two women and one man were found along...

While presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has created a storm of criticism in the U.s. after his recent comments on Fidel Castro, there is a place where the Vermont senator has...

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders views on the Cuban revolution have earned him a storm of criticism in the U.S. But there's one place where his comments have received glowing, front-page...

At Rio's annual Carnival celebration Monday night, comedian and composer Marcelo Adnet stood atop a float for the Sao Clemente samba school dressed in a sequin suit imitating Brazil's far-right...

The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Tuesday extending targeted sanctions in Yemen following contentious negotiations including on whether to refer to U.N. experts' findings that Yemen's Houthi Shiite rebels...

Works of fiction by Ben Lerner and Zadie Smith and an exploration of why women join the Islamic State group are among eight books contending for Britain's Rathbones Folio Prize...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he was advancing settlement construction in a contentious open area of the West Bank. The pledge to build several thousand housing units in...

Slovakia's lawmakers voted Tuesday to reject an international treaty on women's rights. In the 150-seat parliament, 96 of the 113 lawmakers present voted to reject the ratification of the treaty...

Slovakia's lawmakers voted Tuesday to reject an international treaty on women's rights. In the 150-seat parliament, 96 of the 113 lawmakers present voted to reject the ratification of the treaty...