Foreign Affairs

A Haitian diplomat who last headed his country's beleaguered national police force 15 years ago, has been given back his old job as the country's top cop.. Léon Charles, Haiti's...

“Identifying Features,” a drama about a mother's harrowing journey through Mexico to find her teenage son who went missing while trying to reach the United States, won the top prize...

This year's unprecedented hurricane season will land a deadly one-two punch to Central America: Thirteen days after the extremely dangerous Category 4 Hurricane Eta crashed into Nicaragua and battered Honduras,...

Crowds of retirees marched Monday in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, marking 100 days since mass protests began and became an almost-daily feature of life in the country after authoritarian...

Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney on Monday completed a $2.5 million takeover of a Welsh club that plays in the fifth tier of English soccer. “This is really...

Back home in Venezuela, Ruben Limardo Gascon is hailed as a national hero for winning a gold medal in fencing at the 2012 London Olympics. In Poland, where he has...

One cash-strapped parent asked to pay her child's school tuition fees with bags of the rice she grows, leading headmaster Mike Ssekaggo to request a sample before he would agree....

One cash-strapped parent asked to pay her child's school tuition fees with bags of the rice she grows, leading headmaster Mike Ssekaggo to request a sample before he would agree....

Amnesty International said Belgium authorities “abandoned” thousands of elderly people who died in nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic following an investigation published Monday that described the situation as “human...

A fast-strengthening Hurricane Iota is sweeping over the western Caribbean and predicted to become a very dangerous Category 4 storm as it heads for the same part of Central American...

Who is the president of Peru? That answer to that question early Monday was no one. The Latin American nation's political turmoil took a chaotic turn Sunday when interim leader...

Who is the president of Peru? That answer to that question early Monday was no one. The Latin American nation's political turmoil took a chaotic turn Sunday when interim leader...

Who is the president of Peru? That answer to that question early Monday was no one. The Latin American nation's political turmoil took a chaotic turn Sunday when interim leader...

A fast-strengthening Hurricane Iota is sweeping over the western Caribbean and predicted to become a very dangerous Category 4 storm as it heads for the same part of Central American...

A fast-strengthening Hurricane Iota is sweeping over the western Caribbean and predicted to become a very dangerous Category 4 storm as it heads for the same part of Central American...

A fast-strengthening Hurricane Iota is sweeping over the western Caribbean and predicted to become a very dangerous Category 4 storm as it heads for the same part of Central American...

Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, a career diplomat who became one of the country's most prominent faces to the outside world during the uprising against President Bashar Assad, died Monday....

Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, a career diplomat who became one of the country's most prominent faces to the outside world during the uprising against President Bashar Assad, died Monday....

Hong Kong authorities said a fire at an apartment building in a crowded residential district has killed at least seven people and injured another 11. The blaze occurred Sunday night...

Hong Kong authorities said a fire at an apartment building in a crowded residential district has killed at least seven people and injured another 11. The blaze occurred Sunday night...

Iota rapidly gained strength after becoming the 13th hurricane of the Atlantic season Sunday, threatening to bring more dangerous winds and rains to Nicaragua and Honduras — countries recently clobbered...

Undercover agents of the Nicolás Maduro regime kidnapped on Saturday an exiled Venezuelan businessman in the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima, shooting him in a leg and then forcing him...

Peruanos residentes en el sur de Florida celebran tras la renuncia del presidente interino Manuel Merino frente al Consulado General de Perú el domingo 15 de noviembre de 2020 en...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after being told he came into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Sunday. “He will carry on working from...

A bust of the ancient god Hermes, in good condition, was discovered in central Athens during sewage works, authorities said Sunday. The Greek Culture Ministry said that the head, one...

A bust of the ancient god Hermes, in good condition, was discovered in central Athens during sewage works, authorities said Sunday. The Greek Culture Ministry said that the head, one...

A human rights group in Belarus said more than 900 people were arrested Sunday in protests around the country calling for authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to step down. The demonstrations...

Peru's interim president announced his resignation Sunday as the nation plunged into its worst constitutional crisis in two decades following massive protests unleashed when Congress ousted the nation's popular leader....

Giant, aging cables that support one of the world's largest single-dish radio telescopes are slowly unraveling in this U.S. territory, pushing an observatory renowned for its key role in astronomical...

Hurricane Iota is expected to blast Central America Monday night as a “major hurricane,” the National Hurricane Center said at 7 a.m. Sunday. Iota's sustained winds measured 85 mph, Category...

President-elect Joe Biden is inheriting a world of trouble. The Middle East is a persistent security hotspot. China seeks to be the center of the economic universe. In addition, European...

A settlement watchdog group said Sunday Israel is moving ahead with new construction of hundreds of homes in a strategic east Jerusalem settlement that threatens to cut off parts of...

Mexico on Saturday topped 1 million registered coronavirus cases and nearly 100,000 test-confirmed deaths, though officials agree the number is probably much higher. How did Mexico get here? By marching...

The president of Azerbaijan is promising that Christian churches will be protected when the strongly Muslim country takes possession of areas formerly controlled by Armenians. President Ilham Aliyev's office said...

Israel is moving forward on the construction of hundreds of new homes in a sensitive east Jerusalem settlement, a watchdog group said Sunday, a move that would defy international consensus...

Soumitra Chatterjee, the legendary Indian actor with more than 200 movies to his name and famed for his work with Oscar-winning director Satyajit Ray, died Sunday of complications from the...

The leader of Ethiopia's Tigray region has confirmed firing missiles at neighboring Eritrea's capital, and he is threatening more, saying that “we will take any legitimate military target and we...

Eric Roman struts onstage in his torn jeans and grasps the microphone. It's midnight on a Friday and in normal times, he'd hear wild applause from this tightly packed hotel...

Ethiopia's defiant Tigray regional government said Saturday it fired rockets at two airports in the neighboring Amhara region as a deadly conflict threatens to spread into other parts of Africa's...

A fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in northeastern Romania killed 10 people and critically injured seven others Saturday, officials said. The blaze spread through the intensive care ward...