Foreign Affairs

Israel on Thursday called on Belgium to scrap this weekend's annual Carnival parade after last year's featured a float with anti-Semitic caricatures. The carnival in the industrial city of Aalst...

Survivors of church sex abuse have descended on Rome this week, marking the first anniversary of Pope Francis' summit of church leaders on preventing abuse with calls for more accountability...

Ukraine is happy that impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, which the country got dragged into, are over and it now wants to “advance" relations with the United States, Ukraine's...

A satellite tracker attached three years ago to a monkfish off Cape Cod has amazed researchers by mysteriously showing up on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The tag...

A flare-up in violence near a strategic port in Yemen left at least 18 fighters dead over the past day, rebel officials said Thursday. Fighting escalated overnight in the flash...

In the German town of Hanau, a longtime immigrant destination with decades of coexistence between people of different origins, residents were left with the fear Thursday that their community was...

The frills are on at Milan Fashion Week, where “pretty” is womenswear watchword of the next cold weather season. Embellishments appeared even on brands known for their spare lines, mostly...

Prosecutors in western Mexico said Thursday that the arrest of a criminal gang led to the discovery of a house that had been used to dispose of 24 bodies. Prosecutors...

A rubber dinghy packed with 91 migrants that set out from Libyan shores in hopes of reaching Europe has apparently gone missing in the Mediterranean, the U.N. refugee agency said...

Authorities suspect that the gunman who killed nine people with migrant backgrounds in the Frankfurt suburb of Hanau was motivated by racism. It is the latest in a long line...

Ireland's parliament convened Thursday for the first time since an election two weeks ago that left three parties on roughly level pegging, with no easy route to forming a stable...

Julian Assange's European defense teamsaid Thursday it will try to seek asylum in France for the Wikileaks founder, whose trial for extradition to the United States on spying charges starts...

A woman who allegedly took a seven-year-old girl away from school to be killed may have lived with the girl's family for a while in Mexico City to escape domestic...

The Israeli military said Thursday it found “serious, systemic failures” in its own reporting that inflated figures on the enlistment of ultra-Orthodox Jews, a hot-button issue in a country where...

British police say a man has been stabbed at one of London's main mosques. The Metropolitan Police force says officers were called Thursday afternoon to the London Central Mosque near...

Sudanese pro-democracy activists said the country's security forces fired tear gas Thursday at hundreds of protesters in the capital Khartoum. Sudan's Professionals Association, the group that spearheaded last year's uprising...

A Polish mayor is trying to make amends with a French community that broke formal ties with another Polish town because the latter adopted a declaration against “LGBT ideology.” In...

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó said military police raided the home of his uncle early Thursday, a week after the relative was arrested on his return with Guaidó to Venezuela....

An Egyptian court overturned Thursday a decision to release a prominent activist who has been detained for nearly five months without trial over what his family says are unjust charges....

A nine-year-old Palestinian boy who was shot in the face by Israeli police in a tense east Jerusalem neighborhood last week will not regain vision in his left eye despite...

Police in Thailand say a small aircraft has crashed near a mountaintop in the eastern province of Rayong. Contradictory reports from the scene described the aircraft as a small plane...

Feb. 13-19, 2020 This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in the Middle East, Afghanistan & Pakistan region. This week's...

Microsoft announced a five-year, $1.1 billion investment plan in Mexico on Thursday to develop training programs and increase the availability of cloud computing services. Company executives said the money will...

Lesotho's Prime Minister Thomas Thabane will be charged with the June 2017 killing of his estranged wife, Lipolelo, a top police official said Thursday, and the prime minister announced he...

Croatia's government on Thursday accepted the resignation of the country's chief state attorney after he was forced to step down for being a Freemason. The government said it would ask...

More than 150 historians and researchers have signed up to access the soon-to-open Vatican archives of Pope Pius XII, evidence of the intense scholarly interest into the World War II-era...

Volunteers from a Hong Kong theater group are turning their backstage skills to helping fight the new virus, sewing reusable protective face masks for those who can't access or afford...

South Sudan's rival leaders on Thursday announced they have agreed to form a coalition government, just two days before the latest deadline. The announcement is a major development in the...

A Ugandan academic who was imprisoned after insulting the president was freed Thursday by a judge who said she had been wrongfully convicted. Frank Baine, a spokesman for the prisons...

Iran said Thursday that three more people have been infected with the new coronavirus that originated in central China, following an announcement the day before that two people had died...

A rare and looted crown from the 18th century was returned to Ethiopia on Thursday after it was discovered in the Netherlands two decades ago. The Dutch government facilitated the...

The leader of Britain's main opposition party set out to visit flood-hit communities Thursday as criticism grew of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's response to the emergency. Labour Party leader...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Thursday in a visit focused primarily on discussing shared security concerns about regional rival Iran. Ahead of...

Two elderly passengers taken off the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess because they were infected with the new virus have died, Japan's Health Ministry said Thursday, becoming the first fatalities...

Turkey's foreign minister said Thursday that Turkey and Russia have inched closer toward each other's positions during talks in Moscow this week on restoring calm in northwestern Syria, but that...

South Sudanese officials have diverted millions of dollars of state funds that are badly needed by civilians as the country staggers away from civil war, a United Nations commission said...

President Vladimir Putin says the ouster of Russia's prime minister and a cabinet reshuffle that caught many in Russia off guard in January was not in fact unexpected, but he...

Israel's leading opposition figure Benny Gantz denied wrongdoing on Thursday after media reports said Israel would examine an allegedly shady deal between a company he headed and Israeli police. The...

Around 180 Australians evacuated from a virus-stricken cruise ship in Japan arrived Thursday in the city of Darwin to begin a second quarantine period. The former cruise ship passengers will...

Two more Russians aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined in Japan have been diagnosed with a new virus, the Russian Embassy in Japan said Thursday. The two will be...