Foreign Affairs

A pilot and two students were killed Monday when their trainer aircraft crashed in the central Chinese province of Hubei, state media reported. The brief report did not give the...

The head of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in the state of West Bengal has threatened to shoot and jail people who protest a new...

The U.S. Air Force has named two servicemen who died at a base in Germany last week as Airman 1st Class Xavier Leaphart and Airman 1st Class Aziess Whitehurst, both...

A former French priest accused of sexually abusing around 75 Boy Scouts went on trial Monday, but the proceedings were delayed for a day because of a strike by lawyers....

An Indonesian court sentenced an American man to 9 1/3 years in prison on Monday after finding him guilty of selling cocaine and marijuana on the resort island of Bali....

A Jordanian court sentenced an Israeli man on Monday to four months in prison and fined him $1,450 for illegally crossing into the country and possessing drugs, the state-run Petra...

Legislators in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia on Monday accepted the resignation of the region's leader, who stepped down under pressure from the opposition. Opposition protesters seized the presidential office...

Philosopher Roger Scruton, one of Britain's most prominent conservative thinkers, has died aged 75. Scruton's family said in a statement that he died Sunday after a six-month battle with cancer....

Twenty-two Cabinet ministers took their oaths Monday to join Spain's new coalition government, a first in a country dominated until recently by two main parties taking turns in power. King...

China says its diplomats and government officials will fully exploit foreign social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter that are blocked off to its own citizens. Foreign ministry spokesman...

China said Monday it barred the head of the internationally renowned organization Human Rights Watch from entering Hong Kong due to the group's support for the territory's ongoing protest movement....

Thailand's king has directed police to reduce the closure of roads during royal motorcades. The commander of the Traffic Police Division said Monday that the new rules issued by King...

Twenty-two Cabinet ministers have taken their oaths to join Spain's center to far left-wing coalition administration, a first in a country once dominated by two main parties taking turns in...

The death toll from an attack by Islamic extremists on Niger's military last week has risen to at least 89, making it the most deadly attack of its kind in...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is set to hold talks Monday with Prince Harry for the first time since he and his wife, Meghan, unveiled their controversial plan to walk away...

A group of 10 voluntary firemen will leave Denmark this week to assist with fighting Australia's wildfires after an official Danish offer to assist was turned down. Firefighter Assistance Denmark,...

Israel's military said on Monday that heavy rainfall last week caused extensive flooding at an air force base, resulting in damage to eight warplanes. The military said in a statement...

France is preparing its military to better target Islamic extremists in a West African region that has seen a surge of deadly violence. But first, French President Emmanuel Macron is...

Israel's main left-parties have announced they will run on a single ticket in the upcoming March 2 election. Both Labor and Meretz had been polling dangerously close to the electoral...

Copenhagen's famed Little Mermaid statue was found doused with pro-Hong Kong graffiti early Monday. Three lines in red, reading “Free Hong-Kong” were painted on the rock on which the bronze...

Japan is celebrating Coming of Age Day, a centuries-old tradition and national holiday to honor those who have turned 20 over the past year. Held annually on the second Monday...

Severe winter weather has struck parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, with heavy snowfall, rains and flash floods that left at least 43 dead, officials said Monday as authorities struggled to...

The Russian Foreign Ministry says Libya's rival leaders will meet in Moscow Monday for peace talks. The ministry said that Fayez al Sarraj, the head of Libya's U.N.--recognized government in...

Al-Shabab extremists killed three people in an attack in eastern Kenya, police said Monday. The militants from neighboring Somalia attacked Kamuthe center in Garissa county, setting fire to a police...

Iranian police and security forces fired both live ammunition and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting against the Islamic Republic's initial denial that it shot down a Ukrainian jetliner, online...

More than two years ago, Hurricane Maria revealed that Puerto Rico was utterly unprepared for a powerful hurricane despite its location in one of the world's most storm-vulnerable regions. Now,...

The Taal volcano eruption in Batangas on January 12 threw a plume of dust and gas a kilometer into the air and triggered ashfalls. Timelapse video shows steam and dust...

Red-hot lava gushed out of a Philippine volcano Monday after a sudden eruption of ash and steam that forced villagers to flee and shut down Manila's international airport, offices and...

A massive celebration in Rio de Janeiro Sunday marking the start of the 50-day countdown to Brazil's world famous Carnival was marred by tear gas, tossed bottles and clashes between...

A man who died in an Australian hospital became the 20th casualty of a New Zealand volcano eruption more than a month ago, officials said on Monday. The victim was...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday it's been gut-wrenching to listen to stories from relatives of 57 Canadians who perished in the downing of a Ukrainian jetliner in Iran...

Haiti marked the 10th anniversary of its greatest tragedy Sunday with a low-key commemoration that included private ceremonies, a blood drive and a renewed call for unity from its president....

Retired Pope Benedict XVI has broken his silence to reaffirm the value of priestly celibacy, co-authoring a bombshell book at the precise moment that Pope Francis is weighing whether to...

Haitians on Sunday remembered the victims of the massive earthquake that killed more than 100,000 people a decade ago, although the ceremony was marked by a protest against political mismanagement...

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Sunday that a monument will be put up to memorialize nine U.S.-Mexican dual citizens ambushed and slain last year by suspected drug gang assassins...

The late Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz was remembered on Sunday evening during the finale of a yearly Polish fundraiser — the same event during which he was fatally stabbed on...

Despite the images of violence and social protests that we are seeing in much of Latin America, top international economists specializing in the region are surprisingly confident that Latin American...

A Ukrainian political analyst who was in Iran's capital for an international conference planned to head home when it was done, but then chose to stay one more day and...

Venezuela's National Assembly President Juan Guaidó won an important battle by overcoming the Venezuelan dictatorship's clumsy attempt to forcefully take over the country's opposition-led congress. But to keep this from...

Four members of Iraq's military were wounded Sunday in a rocket attack targeting an air base just north of Baghdad where American trainers are present, Iraqi security officials said. The...