Foreign Affairs

Thai officials say a soldier who went on a shooting rampage and killed at least 21 people and injured 42 others has been shot dead inside a mall in northeastern...

Mainland China has reported the virus death toll has risen to 811, surpassing SARS fatalities in the 2002-2003 outbreak. China's National Health Commission on Sunday says the total cases of...

After more than two years of protests, including campouts, dozens of families displaced by the 2017 earthquake in Mexico City have a new home: a five-story building that stands where...

American and Afghan military personnel were fired on while conducting an operation in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, the U.S. military said Saturday. There were multiple American casualties, but the number...

American and Afghan military personnel were fired on Saturday while conducting an operation in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, the U.S. military said Saturday. U.S. military spokesman Sonny Leggett in a...

Pope Francis will mark the fifth anniversary of his ecological manifesto by visiting a southern Italian region where decades of toxic-waste dumping by the mob have polluted the environment and...

Stephen Joyce, the gatekeeper of his grandfather James' estate and subject of the celebrated poem “Ecce Puer,'' has died, the president of Ireland said. He was 87. Joyce died on...

Flights transporting Yemeni medical patients from rebel-held areas continued Saturday when a second plane carrying 24 patients took off from Sanaa bound for Jordan's capital, the U.N. health agency said....

The popular Chinese New Year Festival event that traditionally draws thousands to the Miami Dade College campus in Kendall for 32 years has been canceled. Officially the reasoning for the...

When Marília de Barros Silva heard reports that the popular Brazilian soccer club Flamengo was signing a player for almost 17 million euros ($18.6 million), she felt sadness — but...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked his counterpart from neighboring Sri Lanka on Saturday to resume a post-civil war reconciliation process with minority ethnic Tamils that appears to have stalled...

Thousands of Poles rallied Saturday in Warsaw to show their support for the country's right-wing government as it brings to completion an almost total overhaul of the justice system to...

Syrian government forces captured new areas from insurgents in their offensive in the northwest Saturday, as Turkey sent more reinforcements into the war-torn country, state media and opposition activists said....

A soldier in northern Thailand shot multiple people on Saturday, killing at least 10, and was holed up at a popular shopping mall, police said. A police officer contacted by...

Police in northeastern Thailand said a soldier shot multiple people on Saturday, killing at least two, and was holed up at a popular shopping mall. The total number of casualties...

The long-serving head of France's skating federation resigned Saturday amid suspicions that he covered up for a coach accused of rape and sexual abuse by former figure skaters. Didier Gailhaguet...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday fired a government official whose congratulating of a state governor elected with a far-right party's help angered Merkel's coalition partners. Christian Hirte, a member...

The French military says operations by French and Malian forces have killed 30 more extremists in Africa's Sahel region in recent days, amid stepped-up efforts to combat jihadist groups in...

Irish voters are choosing their next prime minister in an election where frustration with economic austerity and a housing crisis have fueled the rise of Sinn Fein, still shunned by...

The Latest on a virus outbreak that began in China (all times local): 1:30 p.m. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing says a 60-year-old American citizen diagnosed with the new virus...

Eight people were killed and 40 injured in an outburst of violence in a town in Kazakhstan where about 30 homes were also set on fire, the country's interior minister...

Swiss voters head to the polls on Sunday to decide whether to support a measure passed in parliament to make it illegal to discriminate against people based on their sexual...

A United States citizen has died from the new coronavirus in Wuhan, China, authorities said on Saturday, the first confirmed foreign victim of the outbreak. A 60-year-old from the U.S....

A Thai soldier killed at least 20 people and injured 31 others on a shooting rampage on Saturday that ended up at a shopping mall in the city of Nakhon...

Medical workers at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak say overwhelmed services and a dearth of protective equipment are putting them at risk of the infection, which claimed the life...

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar's party is in contention to keep power, as an exit poll showed the nation's three biggest political parties in a virtual tie. Varadkar's Fine Gael...

A woman opened her window in Wuhan at 9:30 p.m. on Friday, 24 hours after the death of the doctor who'd been arrested for spreading "rumors" about a virus that...

US and Afghan forces came under attack in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, a US official in Kabul said. "A combined U.S. and Afghan force conducting an operation in...

In the prosperous capitals of Asia, money could buy anything – until a mysterious coronavirus hit, striking fear in rich and poor alike. Now, surgical masks are nearly impossible to...

The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, apologized on Saturday for dismissive comments about youth climate activists during a television interview, in an about-turn a few months into his...

At a Chinese-run hospital in Zambia, some employees watched as people who recently returned from China showed up with coughs but were not placed in isolation. A doctor tending to...

Voting began for a crucial state election in India's capital on Saturday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party trying to regain power after a 22-year gap and major...

Independent newspaper La Prensa received on Friday the remaining supplies that had been held up at customs for 18 months without explanation, after President Daniel Ortega's government decided to release...

The death toll in the viral outbreak in mainland China has risen to 722, while new cases jumped to 31,774, reversing declines over previous days. China's ruling Communist Party faced...

A Peruvian woman who is almost completely paralyzed and requires round-the-clock care for a terminal illness took her fight to change the South American nation's law forbidding euthanasia to the...

As Puerto Rico is struggling to recover from hurricanes and earthquakes, the White House confirmed on Friday that it's appointing U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Peter Brown as its liaison...

The U.N. refugee agency reported Friday that the total number of migrants intercepted by the Libyan coast guard in the past month rose by 121% compared with the same period...

The death of a doctor who issued an early warning about the new virus in China represents a grim reminder that the first health care workers to recognize new outbreaks...

Tunisia's ambassador to the U.N. has been abruptly called home and fired for lack of consultation on a Security Council resolution he helped draft responding to the U.S. Middle East...

A member of the lower house of the Russian parliament was killed in a helicopter crash in his home region Friday, officials said. Airat Khairullin was killed in the crash...