Foreign Affairs

The suspect in at least two deadly shootings in the western German town of Hanau has been found dead in an apartment, police said in the early hours of Thursday....

Federal prosecutors say they are taking charge of the investigating into a mass shooting in the German city of Hanau that left 11 people dead, including the suspect. The move...

A Swedish organization that gave Greta Thunberg an award that is often described as an alternative Nobel Prize says the teenage climate activist is using her prize money to establish...

After two months of almost no snow, Japan's northern city of Sapporo was overwhelmed with the white stuff. Earlier this month, about 14 inches (34 centimeters) fell in just six...

A test event for the Tokyo Olympics scheduled for later this month that would have involved some non-Japanese athletes is being revamped because of fear of the spreading virus from...

The mayor of the South Korean city of Daegu urged its 2.5 million people on Thursday to refrain from going outside as cases of a new virus spike. Mayor Kwon...

Karim Hegazi spends his days in a Cairo clinic taking care of animals long considered a menace in Egypt. Stray dogs roam in almost every Cairo neighborhood — lurking in...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Thursday that Australians across the country were “shocked, saddened and devastated” by the deaths of five people including three children after a car fire in...

A bus collided head-on with a truck in southern India early Thursday, killing at least 19 people and injuring 23 others, police said. The accident occurred near Avanashi, a town...

China says the number the of new virus cases rose by just 394 from the previous day, with a rise in the death of 114. The new figures Thursday followed...

Authorities said late Wednesday they arrested a woman and a man suspected in the kidnapping of a 7-year-old girl whose dead body was found wrapped in a plastic bag days...

New tensions erupted in Haiti Wednesday as its U.S.-backed Haiti National Police force seem headed to an implosion after a spontaneous protest by police officers demanding the right to unionize...

Police say eight people have been killed in shootings in the German city of Hanau on Wednesday evening. A short police statement gave no information on the victims. It said...

The debate over fresh U.S. sanctions aimed at forcing out Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro played out Wednesday across the crisis-stricken nation — including a bustling Caracas bus terminal. Residents of a...

Canadian police said Wednesday whiteout conditions that came about suddenly most likely triggered a massive pileup involving about 200 vehicles south of Montreal. There were no immediate reports of deaths...

Hundreds of people flooded the streets of the Dominican Republic again late Wednesday, as anger grows after the Caribbean nation was forced to cancel Sunday's municipal election amid glitches with...

German police say several people were shot to death in the city of Hanau on Wednesday evening. The dpa news agency reported that police said people were killed but it...

An explosion killed six guards of the Yemeni defense minister and wounded eight others Wednesday, military officials said, the latest casualties of unmarked landmines that litter the war-torn country. Defense...

An Italian prosecutor says the captain of a Lebanese-flagged cargo ship has been arrested in northern Italy for investigation of suspected international arms trafficking between Turkey and Libya. Prosecutor Francesco...

Algeria's president has declared Feb. 22 a special holiday to honor the peaceful “smile revolution” protest movement that ousted the gas-rich country's longtime leader last year. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune made...

The cheers of celebration have faded. The waving of roses has ceased. Having finally reached a friendly port in Cambodia willing to accept them after nearly two weeks of uncertainty...

Well-wishers at Pope Francis' weekly audience have thrust soccer T-shirts, flowers and many a wailing baby into his arms. And on New Year's Eve, one admirer, trying to pull him...

A dengue epidemic in several French Caribbean islands has claimed its second victim, officials said Wednesday. A 75-year-old French woman who traveled regularly to St. Martin died this month after...

A lawyer for Julian Assange said Wednesday that the WikiLeaks founder plans to claim during his extradition hearing that he was offered a pardon by the Trump administration if he...

Three deaf victims of sexual abuse by priests in Argentina wrapped up a string of meetings with United Nations human rights officials in Geneva on Wednesday, hoping to build pressure...

A Mexican scientist charged with spying for Russia in Miami is considered a benefactor in his native state of Oaxaca state, the mayor of his hometown said Tuesday. Mayor Hazael...

Britain's Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, are breaking free of the royal family starting March 31, the couple's office said Wednesday. The announcement comes as Buckingham Palace reviewed the...

Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing a Russian-backed Syrian offensive are being squeezed into ever smaller areas near Turkey's border “under horrendous conditions” in below-freezing temperatures that are killing babies...

Austria's foreign minister said Wednesday that he will travel to Tehran this weekend amid efforts by European countries to keep alive Iran's nuclear agreement with world powers. Alexander Schallenberg said...

German officials confirmed Wednesday that a court has ordered the release of an Iranian man wanted by the United States, but declined to comment on reports that the move was...

As the commander of the U.S. Coast Guard's Seventh District based in Miami, Rear Adm. Peter J. Brown helped rush life-saving aid to Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria...

Police in Thailand have arrested a man who has been a fugitive since being convicted in absentia of the 2003 murder of a Dutch expatriate. Anupong Sutthani, one of three...

Kosovar prosecutors on Wednesday filed terrorism charges against an ethnic Albanian woman who allegedly joined a terror group in Syria. A statement from the special prosecutors' office said the suspect,...

A teenager was shot and killed in overnight clashes between Palestinian forces and local gunmen in the West Bank, local media reported Wednesday. Salah Zakarna, 17, was shot in the...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday she won't try to interfere with her center-right party's choice of a new leader, a person the party will likely try to turn into...

Albania's president on Wednesday called on the people of his nation to topple the left-wing government, which he accused of violating the country's constitution and of links to organized crime....

The owner of a bus company says three people have been killed by suspected extremists from Somalia after they were pulled out of a bus in northeastern Kenya. Haji Abass...

Haiti police want to unionize but the internal regulations of the Haiti National Police prohibit it. A few rogue officers have taken their fight to the streets, allegedly destroying property...

China on Wednesday said it has revoked the press credentials of three reporters for the U.S. newspaper Wall Street Journal over a headline for an opinion column deemed racist by...

Surgeons at King's College Hospital in London removed a brain tumor from a woman who played the violin during the procedure. Doctors for violinist Dagmar Turner, 53, mapped her brain...