U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that global political tensions “at their highest level this century” are escalating and “leading more and more countries to take unpredicted decisions with unpredictable...
January 6, 2020
The United States “underestimated” Russia's support for Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro and is studying how to respond to Russian actions, a senior U.S. official said Monday. “We are closely studying...
January 6, 2020
Mexican authorities continued searching Monday for the gunmen responsible for an attack on a sparsely traveled stretch of highway near the Texas border that left a 13-year-old U.S. citizen dead...
January 6, 2020
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi appeared at Coptic Christmas Eve Mass on Monday and praised the links between the country's Christian and Muslim faithful, saying they have prevented the country...
January 6, 2020
Mexico's national search effort to find tens of thousands of missing people has so far uncovered 1,124 corpses in 873 clandestine burial pits, officials said Monday. The country's National Search...
January 6, 2020
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January 6, 2020
Libya's east-based forces said they captured the strategic coastal city of Sirte on Monday from the internationally-recognized government. The announcement comes amid an a major offensive by the east-based forces...
January 6, 2020
A man and a teenage boy were shot dead at an outdoor toy market in a rough area of Mexico City as residents were in the middle of Three Kings'...
January 6, 2020
Orlando Terranova became the new Dakar Rally leader after finishing second on the tricky second stage on Monday. Terranova retired from the rally on the same stage a year ago...
January 6, 2020
Dozens of police on Monday were deployed in Montenegro for Orthodox Christmas Eve celebrations being held amid heightened tensions over a religious rights law opposed by the Serbian church in...
January 6, 2020
A young German woman died in a hospital Monday, the seventh person killed after a drunken driver speeding on an Alpine road in northern Italy plowed into German skiers on...
January 6, 2020
Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced plans to vote on a war powers resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives. If passed, the resolution could limit Trump's actions in escalating tensions...
January 6, 2020
One of Puerto Rico's iconic natural wonders — a soaring stone arch along the southern coast known as Punta Ventana or Window Point — collapsed early Monday as a 5.79...
January 6, 2020
Mexican authorities continued searching Monday for the gunmen responsible for an attack on a sparsely traveled stretch of highway near the Texas border that left a 13-year-old U.S. citizen dead...
January 6, 2020
The European Parliament proposes to officially recognize three separatist Catalan leaders as European lawmakers next week, following a decision by the European Union's top court. A leaked internal note issued...
January 6, 2020
Iran's dramatic announcement that it no longer intends to honor its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers could soon revive discussions in Israel over a possible military...
January 6, 2020
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign against illegal drugs has failed to substantially eradicate the menace and ensnare major drug lords and should be reformed to prevent further bloodshed, the country's...
January 6, 2020
A passenger bus plunged off the road in Sri Lanka's tea-growing hill country on Monday, killing six people and injuring more than 30. Police said a bus belonging to the...
January 6, 2020
Nicolás Maduro's government moved aggressively to wipe out what remains of resistance to his socialist rule, attempting to install a pliant leadership in congress in a move opponents compared to...
January 6, 2020
A community in southern Thailand has offered a reward for catching whoever stole dozens of unhatched eggs of an endangered turtle species. The Pacific Leatherback turtle eggs were stolen before...
January 6, 2020
A man described as “the most prolific rapist in British legal history” has been sentenced to life in prison with a possible release after 30 years following his conviction for...
January 6, 2020
Croatia's ruling conservatives said Monday they will analyze why their candidate lost a presidential election to a leftist challenger in order to prevent this from happening again at the upcoming...
January 6, 2020
More than 250 civilians have been killed by Islamic extremists in Burkina Faso in less than a year, Human Rights Watch said in a new report Monday, as attacks increase...
January 6, 2020
Iraq's top leaders were receiving condolences Monday for Iraqi Shiite militia leaders killed along with top Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani, in a U.S. airstrike last week. The gathering in Baghdad...
January 6, 2020
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition is starting the new year with a new bout of strife — this time over a conservative ally's call for new faces in the...
January 6, 2020
Chinese President Xi Jinping lauded Kiribati on Monday for “standing on the right side of history” during his first meeting with the Pacific island nation's leader since it severed ties...
January 6, 2020
A 5.7-magnitude quake jolted Puerto Ricans out of their beds Monday morning, the strongest quake yet to hit the U.S. territory that has been shaking for the past week. The...
January 6, 2020
A 5.7-magnitude quake jolted Puerto Ricans out of their beds Monday morning, the strongest quake yet to hit the U.S. territory that has been shaking for the past week. The...
January 6, 2020
U.S. Ambassador John Bass left Kabul on Monday as his two-year tenure as America's top diplomat in the war-torn country has ended. His departure comes as U.S. tensions with neighboring...
January 6, 2020
Thousands of Orthodox Christian worshippers plunged into the icy waters of rivers and lakes across Bulgaria on Monday to retrieve crucifixes tossed by priests in Epiphany ceremonies commemorating the baptism...
January 6, 2020
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will travel to Moscow on Saturday to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin amid growing tensions in the Middle East and elsewhere. Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said...
January 6, 2020
Pope Francis is advising people to reject “the god of money" as well as of that consumerism, pleasure, success and self. Francis in his homily in St. Peter's Basilica Monday...
January 6, 2020
German prosecutors have filed terror charges against a Syrian man accused of commanding a unit of Islamic State group fighters in his homeland. Prosecutors in Frankfurt said Monday that the...
January 6, 2020
Ugandan police have detained the singer and political activist known as Bobi Wine, who planned Monday to hold his first public meeting with supporters as a presidential aspirant. Police fired...
January 6, 2020
The latest on U.S.-Iran tensions in the wake of the U.S. airstrike that killed Iran's top general (all times local): 1 p.m. France's finance minister says the current tensions in...
January 6, 2020
Kenyan police say they have arrested three men who tried to force their way into a British Army training camp on the same day that al-Shabab extremists attacked a military...
January 6, 2020
More than 1,000 students and activists on Monday linked their hands, chanted slogans and marched through Bangladesh's main public university after a second-year student was raped, police said. The protesters...
January 6, 2020
Weeping amid wails from a crowd of hundreds of thousands of mourners, Iran's supreme leader on Monday prayed over the remains of a top Iranian general killed in a U.S....
January 6, 2020
A court on Indonesia's tourist island of Bali sentenced two Australian men on Monday to nine and 12 months in jail for possessing cocaine. Former Melbourne nightclub promoters William Cabantog...
January 6, 2020
Police in western Germany shot and killed a 37-year-old man who allegedly tried to attack them with a knife. They are checking whether extremism was a possible motive for the...
