Foreign Affairs

Investigators from the International Criminal Court have begun collecting evidence for a case involving alleged crimes against humanity by Myanmar against Rohingya Muslims who then fled to neighboring Bangladesh, a...

A military investigative judge charged a Lebanese-American man with murder and torture of Lebanese citizens on Tuesday, crimes he allegedly committed during Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon, judicial officials said....

Turkey's foreign minister said Tuesday that Ankara and Moscow were trying to keep peace efforts for Syria alive despite Syrian government advances and a deadly clash between Turkish and Syrian...

A K-pop star charged with violating South Korea's anti-prostitution law may have to join the country's army and face trial in a military court. Last week, prosecutors indicted former Big...

Keith Barron and Stefan Ansermet have been searching for two Spanish-era gold mines that have been lost in Ecuador's southeastern jungles since the 1600s. In November, they stumbled on a...

A nurse at a German hospital who was arrested on suspicion of administering morphine to five young babies has been released after new tests showed that investigators' initial findings were...

The World Anti-Doping Agency wants a rare public hearing for sport's highest court to judge a four-year slate of punishments faced by Russia for persistent cheating. The Court of Arbitration...

It took more than 45 years, but 219 paintings thought lost or stolen — artwork that includes some of the most significant works produced by Greek Cypriot artists — have...

The U.N.'s special representative for Libya said he hopes cease-fire talks that officially began Tuesday between the country's warring sides will reach a deal that can convince foreign powers to...

A surprise meeting between Sudan's leader and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stirred controversy in Sudan on Tuesday, with the government saying it wasn't notified ahead of time and critics...

A judge in South Africa has issued an arrest warrant for former president Jacob Zuma for failing to appear in court in a corruption case. The South African Broadcasting Corporation...

Russia and China pose the greatest threats to national security of Lithuania, according to an intelligence report published by the Baltic nation on Tuesday. The government and the Lithuanian national...

India's ruling Hindu nationalist-led government said Tuesday it was still weighing whether to roll out a nationwide citizenship registry, an exercise it says would weed out illegal foreign nationals, amid...

Iran said Tuesday that its top court confirmed a death sentence for an Iranian man convicted of spying for the CIA, with state media alleging that he had shared details...

The girls and boys in the room were just a little older than Victor Perahia was when he was finally freed in 1945, his body wracked with tuberculosis and typhus,...

Sri Lanka's new government declined to sing the national anthem in Tamil, the country's second national language, during the island's Independence Day celebrations Tuesday, a departure from the previous government...

Lawmakers commemorated wildfire victims and praised the heroism of firefighters when Australia's Parliament sat on Tuesday as hundreds of protesters rallied outside demanding more policy action on climate change. The...

The Latest on the outbreak of a new virus from China (all times local): 1:30 p.m. Japanese health officials are conducting extensive medical checks on all 3,700 passengers and crew...

North Korea said Tuesday it was mobilizing 30,000 health workers everyday in its “all-out efforts” to guard against the spread of a virus from neighboring China. North Korea hasn't reported...

A group of 243 Australian citizens arrived at Christmas Island on February 4, for a two-week quarantine period after being evacuated from Wuhan on Feb. 3. … Click to Continue...

Former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi has died, President Uhuru Kenya announced on the state broadcaster on Tuesday. The 95-year-old who ruled Kenya for 24 years had been in hospital...

China said Tuesday the number of infections from a new virus surpassed 20,000 as medical workers and patients arrived at a new hospital and President Xi Jinping said “we have...

Islamic State extremists are mounting increasingly bold attacks in Syria and Iraq following their loss of territory in both countries and are planning for the breakout of their fighters in...

Brazil's government criticized Oscar-nominated filmmaker Petra Costa on Monday after she once more labeled far-right President Jair Bolsonaro a risk to the country's democracy. Costa's documentary about the 2016 impeachment...

This was a caucus like Iowans had never seen before: Voters from Egypt, Italy, Amsterdam and beyond descended on a Paris town hall Monday to choose their Democratic candidate for...

It took more than 45 years, but 219 paintings thought lost or stolen that include some considered to be among the most significant works Greek Cypriot artists have produced were...

Australia's deputy prime minister on Tuesday withstood a challenge to his leadership from his own party mounted by the man he replaced two years ago. The Nationals party has not...

Iran's president said Monday that Tehran might reconsider providing U.N. inspectors with access to Iran's nuclear facilities if the country were confronted with "a new situation,” the official IRNA news...

As coronavirus continues to spread, infecting people in at least 23 countries, the number of deaths in China caused by the infection has surpassed the casualties of the 2002-03 SARS...

Turkey's president on Monday denounced the Russian annexation of Crimea and pledged to support the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Recep Tayyip Erdogan also said on a visit to Ukraine that...

Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, issued an apology Monday for videos presented during a ceremony attended by world leaders last month, saying they included “a number of inaccuracies.” Dan Michman,...

Spain's port operator AENA says that an Air Canada Boeing 767 aircraft is to make an emergency landing at the airport in Madrid Monday after reporting technical problems. The Toronto-bound...

Police have cordoned off one of the busiest areas of central London after what's thought to be an unexploded World War II bomb was dug up at a construction site....

North Macedonian authorities have filed criminal charges against three Pakistanis and a Macedonian man for allegedly imprisoning a group of migrants and holding them to ransom, officials said Monday. The...

Days after Gulf Arab states expressed their support for President Donald Trump's efforts at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, representatives from these same countries and other Muslim nations gathered in Saudi...

At least 13 people died in Rwanda's capital, Kigali, in overnight heavy rains and others were injured, government officials said Monday. The East African nation has seen dozens of deaths...

A United Nations medical relief flight carrying patients from Yemen's rebel-held capital took off Monday, the first such aid flight in over three years. Saudi Arabia controls Yemen's airspace and...

Britain may have just left the European Union, but the country's navy was the first to arrive for U.S.-led war games over the next six months across Europe. The Royal...

Arek and Jenina Rataj were starting a new life in the Chinese industrial center of Wuhan when a viral outbreak spread across the city of 11 million. Almost immediately, the...

Burkina Faso's government says gunmen killed at least 18 civilians over the weekend in an attack on the northern village of Lamdamol in the Sahel region. Regional governor Col. Salfo...