Foreign Affairs

Afghanistan's independent election commission says President Ashraf Ghani has won a second term as president. The commission announced Tuesday that Ghani garnered 50.64% of the vote that took place on...

Croatia's new, leftist president on Tuesday formally took office at an inauguration ceremony, urging more tolerance and equality for all in the country, which is the European Union's newest member...

A half-kilometer (1,640-foot) brick wall has been hastily erected in India's Gujarat state ahead of a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump, with critics saying it was built to block...

Singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi and rapper Dave lead the nominations for the U.K. music industry's Brit Awards, which faced criticism for the lack of female artists nominated for the high-profile prizes....

Government forces and their allies must allow humanitarian corridors into conflict areas in northwest Syria, the U.N. human rights chief said Tuesday, adding it was "cruel beyond belief" that civilians...

The Paris prosecutor's office said Tuesday it has opened investigations into a controversial Russian performance artist who claimed responsibility for releasing sex videos that brought down a high-profile candidate for...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his estranged wife Marina Wheeler have reached a financial agreement for their divorce, court records showed Tuesday. Lawyers for Johnson and Wheeler attended a...

America's top diplomat in his final Africa stop on Tuesday discussed reforms with Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister as well as regional issues that likely included Ethiopia's dispute with...

The U.N. secretary general has told The Associated Press that the virus outbreak that began in China “is not out of control but it is a very dangerous situation.” Antonio...

Spain on Tuesday was searching for some 143 people missing on five migrant boats en route to the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, according to Spain's maritime rescue service....

A former German environment minister on Tuesday became the first prominent figure to officially declare his candidacy for the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right party. Norbert Roettgen, the 54-year-old...

Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists blamed each other for an outbreak of fighting in the country's rebel-held east on Tuesday. Ukraine's military said in a statement that the separatists attempted to...

Residents in central England and Wales braced Monday for more flooding as rivers peaked in the wake of a weekend storm that brought up to 6 inches (150 mm) of...

Japanese health authorities said Tuesday they have confirmed 88 more cases of the new virus on a quarantined cruise ship near Tokyo. The new cases bring the total on the...

Iran sentenced eight environmental activists, including an Iranian who reportedly also has British and American citizenship, to prison sentences ranging from four to 10 years on charges of spying for...

An extraordinary two-week quarantine of the Diamond Princess cruise ship ends Wednesday, with thousands of passengers and crew set to disembark over the next several days in the port of...

Rebels have killed 12 civilians and a soldier in the latest overnight attack on a village in eastern Congo, a local official said Tuesday. “They surprised the people in their...

Israel's opposition leader Benny Gantz said on Monday that if he becomes prime minister after the country's third national elections next month, he would work to mend ties with America's...

A local official says at least 20 people died in a stampede in Niger as they were being given food and goods at a refugee camp. Diffa governor Issa Lamine...

A toxic gas leak killed four more people in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, police said Tuesday, bringing the death toll so far to nine in the incident that...

A roadside bombing targeted a police vehicle in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing a policeman and wounding three others, officials said. The police were assigned to escort health workers during...

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants against 695 people suspected of links to the U.S.-based Muslim cleric blamed by Turkey for a failed coup attempt in 2016, state media reported...

When Iraq's top Shiite cleric underwent surgery for a fractured bone last month, it sent shivers around the country and beyond. “May God heal Iraq,” read a photo of Grand...

Sixteen civil society figures, among them jailed Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala, will return to court on Tuesday as a verdict nears in a case that has been widely criticized as...

Until recently, Mexico had done little to pursue corruption revealed by the investigation into Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which has ensnared politicians, business leaders, and even former and sitting presidents...

China reported 1,886 new virus cases and 98 more deaths in its update Tuesday on a disease outbreak that has caused milder illness in most people, an assessment that promoted...

The U.N humanitarian coordinator for Libya said Monday the impact of the country's nine-year war on civilians “is incalculable,” pointing to its intensity escalating “exponentially” since a rebel commander launched...

Health officials in China have published the first details on nearly 45,000 cases of the novel coronavirus disease that originated there, saying more than 80% have been mild and new...

A Polish mayor on Monday deplored the decision by a sister town in France to suspend 25-year official ties with her town because it declared itself an area “free of...

Thousands of people attended a march in North Macedonia's capital Monday in support of landmark judicial reforms approved just before parliament was dissolved for early elections. The "Walk for Justice"...

The killing of a 7-year-old girl on the southern outskirts of Mexico City has stoked rising anger over brutal slayings of women, including one found stabbed to death and skinned...

A Russian activist was detained Monday after he chained himself to the front doors of the nation's top security agency to protest its handling of a controversial criminal case. Last...

A German court has decided a Duesseldorf dog dispute, ruling Monday that not only size matters in determining whether a dog is officially "miniature." The Muenster regional administrative court decision...

An estimated 500,000 people are threatened with hunger in Lesotho, a quarter of the mountain kingdom's population, according to the United Nations, which is appealing to the international community for...

When a Chinese government mass detention campaign engulfed Memtimin Emer's native Xinjiang region three years ago, the elderly Uighur imam was swept up and locked away, along with three of...

Russian military cooperation with Serbia has reached a “fundamentally” new level, Russia's defense minister said Monday as he visited his Balkan ally amid rising tensions in the volatile region. Sergei...

Small children were among at least 22 people killed in weekend fighting between separatists and the military in northwestern Cameroon, residents said. The government acknowledged some of the deaths occurred...

British music producer and DJ Andrew Weatherall, who helped bring the underground sounds of acid house to a mass audience, has died. He was 56. Weatherall's management said in a...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in his latest Africa stop on Monday praised Angola's president for his actions against corruption, saying it would help attract investment. “This country has...

Former South African president FW de Klerk on Monday apologized and withdrew his statement that the country's former harsh system of racial separation known as apartheid was not a crime...