Guatemala will swear in Alejandro Giammattei, a conservative physician opposed to gay marriage and abortion, as its new president Tuesday while the country's outgoing leader exits amid swirling corruption accusations....
January 14, 2020
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday that he could push for exemptions of U.N. sanctions placed on North Korea as a way to achieve an expansion of inter-Korean ties...
January 14, 2020
A volcano near the Philippine capital spewed lava, ash and steam and trembled constantly Tuesday on the third day of an eruption that could portend a much bigger and dangerous...
January 14, 2020
The Catholic Church has removed Mexican Fernando Martínez from the priesthood after considering him guilty of various sexual abuse crimes against minors, the Legion of Christ religious order said Monday....
January 14, 2020
Former Irish president Mary Robinson, who heads the group of prominent former leaders founded by Nelson Mandela, says the U.S. assassination of Iran's top general has made the Middle East...
January 14, 2020
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the victims of the Ukrainian jetliner shot down by a missile that killed 176 people including 57 Canadians would be alive right now if...
January 14, 2020
Popular anger swelled Monday in Iran over the accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian jetliner and the government's attempt to conceal its role in the tragedy, as online videos appeared to...
January 13, 2020
The U.N. envoy for Colombia warned Monday that peace won't be achieved if former combatants who laid down their weapons and social leaders continue to be killed. Carlos Ruiz Massieu...
January 13, 2020
A woman was skiing in Banff National Park with her husband and his friend on Jan. 10 when the group triggered an avalanche near Mount Hector. She was completely buried...
January 13, 2020
Haiti President Jovenel Moïse began his first day of one-man rule Monday by declaring he will build 10 public schools around the country with the salaries of departed members of...
January 13, 2020
Defying earthquakes along with the governor and the Catholic Church, the city of San Juan said it will hold its annual raucous festival this week that draws hundreds of thousands...
January 13, 2020
Canada's Transportation Safety Board said Monday that Iranian officials have invited it to participate in analysis of the voice and flight data recorders from the Ukrainian jetliner shot down by...
January 13, 2020
An 11-year-old boy who killed his teacher and himself and wounded six others in a northern Mexico school shooting used his grandfather's guns in the attack, officials said Monday. Coahuila...
January 13, 2020
A couple in the Philippines decided they weren't going to let an erupting volcano spoil their nuptials on Jan. 12. They decided to tie the knot as the Taal Volcano...
January 13, 2020
Though no arrest report has been made public, here's what public records and police say about Masoud Yarieilzoleh, the Iranian national arrested Friday in Palm Beach about five miles from...
January 13, 2020
The Academy Award nomination for a Brazilian documentary about the impeachment of then-President Dilma Rousseff has once again laid bare the polarization of Latin America's largest democracy. In “The Edge...
January 13, 2020
Greece's center-right government ordered the removal of anti-abortion posters put up Monday in Athens underground billboards under a paid public awareness campaign by a pro-life group. A transport ministry statement...
January 13, 2020
A volcano on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos has begun erupting, spilling lava down its sides toward the sea. Ecuador's Galapagos National Park said the La Cumbre volcano on...
January 13, 2020
Popular anger swelled Monday in Iran over the accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian jetliner and the government's attempt to conceal its role in the tragedy, as online videos appeared to...
January 13, 2020
The Panama Canal will begin collecting a freshwater surcharge from ships transiting the interoceanic waterway, authorities announced Monday, as part of actions to address a scarcity of rainfall after the...
January 13, 2020
Queen Elizabeth II says she has agreed to grant Prince Harry and Meghan their wish for a more independent life that will see them move part-time to Canada. The British...
January 13, 2020
German police say they are considering disciplinary proceedings against an officer who failed to step in when an Adolf Hitler lookalike showed up at a motorbike meeting in the eastern...
January 13, 2020
The United States sanctioned Monday seven members of the Venezuelan National Assembly who participated in an illegal attempt orchestrated by Nicolás Maduro to regain control of the parliament last week...
January 13, 2020
Roger Scruton, one of Britain's most prominent conservative philosophers, has died. He was 75. Scruton's family said in a statement that he died Sunday after a six-month battle with cancer....
January 13, 2020
A flurry of diplomatic visits and meetings crisscrossing the Persian Gulf have driven urgent efforts in recent days to defuse the possibility of all-out war after the U.S. killed Iran's...
January 13, 2020
The U.N. health agency said Monday that Thai officials have reported that a traveler from the Chinese city of Wuhan has been hospitalized in Thailand with a recently identified new...
January 13, 2020
The crisis gripping Britain's royal family over Prince Harry's plan to step down from royal duties moves to Queen Elizabeth II's rural retreat in eastern England Monday afternoon. The 93-year-old...
January 13, 2020
Israeli police said Monday they had raided a residential complex in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem in which dozens of women and children were being held and abused under extreme...
January 13, 2020
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made a brief court appearance Monday in his bid to prevent extradition to the United States to face serious espionage charges. He and his lawyers complained...
January 13, 2020
A Greek court on Monday indefinitely postponed the retrial of seven suspects on murder charges over the 2017 fatal beating of a Texan tourist on an island resort. The postponement...
January 13, 2020
A Pakistani court on Monday overturned the death sentence given to the country's ex-military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, a former close U.S. ally in the war against terror. The Lahore High...
January 13, 2020
An Austrian BASE jumper was rescued in southern Thailand on Monday after being stuck for hours almost 200 meters (yards) above the ground when his parachute became snagged on the...
January 13, 2020
Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont will attend his first session as a member of the European Parliament on Monday despite facing an arrest warrant against him in Spain. The former Catalan...
January 13, 2020
A predawn explosion rocked central Stockholm Monday, causing damage to buildings and parked cars but no casualties. Swedish police said explosives were used, but ruled out terrorism. The explosion occurred...
January 13, 2020
Music Icon Daddy Yankee shares with residents including Julio, who are mostly of Guanica camped at Coliseo "Tito" Rodriguez as the area have been affected by several earthquakes in the...
January 13, 2020
An alleged hired assassin pleaded guilty Monday to the murder of an investigative journalist and his fiancee in Slovakia, a suspected contract killing that brought down the country's government. Miroslav...
January 13, 2020
The demonstrations that erupted after Iran admitted to accidentally shooting down a passenger plane during a tense standoff with the United States last week are the latest of several waves...
January 13, 2020
U.S. troops were clearing rubble and debris on Monday from a military base housing American soldiers in western Iraq on Monday, days after it was struck by Iranian ballistic missiles....
January 13, 2020
Clouds of ash blew far north of the Philippines' Taal volcano, reaching Manila, the country's bustling capital, and forcing the shutdown of its main airport after lava gushed out of...
January 13, 2020
Israeli officials are seeking to expedite an extradition hearing for a woman facing dozens of sexual-abuse charges in Australia after a psychiatric panel concluded she had lied about suffering from...
