Foreign Affairs

The United Nations said Yemen's warring sides agreed Sunday to exchange more than 1,000 prisoners, marking the first phase of a release plan reached earlier this year. The U.N. mission...

Nearly half of France's Senate seats are up for grabs Sunday in an election that is likely to leave the chamber dominated by conservatives and serve a new electoral blow...

Veteran broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough has given Britain's Prince George a giant shark tooth fossil after a private viewing of his new documentary at Kensington Palace. Photos released by...

Georgian writer-director Dea Kulumbegashvili's first feature film “Beginning” triumphed at Spain's San Sebastian International Film Festival, scooping up four of its top prizes including best film and best director. The...

France's interior minister promised Sunday to protect France's Jewish community from extremists after a double stabbing in Paris blamed on Islamic terrorism. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin visited a synagogue Sunday...

Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan broke out Sunday around the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian Defense Ministry said two Azerbaijani helicopters were shot down. Ministry spokeswoman Shushan Stepanyan...

Law enforcement declared an unlawful assembly late Saturday, forcing protesters from downtown Portland, Oregon, and making several arrests, just hours after demonstrations earlier in the day ended without many reports...

With air and sea borders closed for months and eight cities barring people from entering or leaving, Morocco has been pulling out the stops to stanch the spread of coronavirus....

In a year of cataclysm, some world leaders at this week's annual United Nations meeting are taking the long view, warning: If COVID-19 doesn't kill us, climate change will. With...

It's not only in the United States where protests against racial injustice are part of the national conversation. A handful of America's critics have taken note too, using recent months'...

Parts of Switzerland, Austria and Germany were surprised by unseasonably early snowfall overnight, after a sharp drop in temperatures and heavy precipitation. The Swiss meteorological agency said Saturday that the...

A key informant against one of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's closest aides has been accused of lying to his law enforcement handlers in a case involving millions of dollars transported...

Hundreds of women calling for the authoritarian president to step down protested in Belarus' capital on Saturday, continuing the large demonstrations that have rocked the country since early August. Police...

A key informant against one of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's closest aides has been accused of lying to his law enforcement handlers in a case involving millions of dollars transported...

Russia and China blocked the official release of a report by U.N. experts on Libya that accused its warring parties and their international backers -- including Russia -- of violating...

As Jews around the world gather Sunday night to mark the beginning of Yom Kippur, many in Germany remain uneasy about going together to their houses of worship to pray,...

With Zimbabwe's coronavirus infections on the decline, schools are reopening, along with churches, bars, restaurants, airports and tourist attractions. Strict lockdowns designed to curb the disease are being replaced by...

Struggling to contain resurgent virus infections, European leaders decried a collective failure to vanquish the pandemic and told the U.N. General Assembly on Friday that the time has come for...

Nobel Prize-winning writer Olga Tokaczuk has declined an honorary citizenship from the region of Poland where she lives because she would have had to share the honor with a Roman...

Music-producer, rapper and U.S. presidential candidate Kanye West is in Haiti. West, who was in Jamaica a week ago, landed at the Hugo Chávez International Airport in the northern city...

Tokyo Olympic organizers announced several “simplification” changes Friday for next year's postponed games, though with few large-scale cost savings. Simplifying the Tokyo Games has been a pledge of the International...

A rat has for the first time won a British charity's top civilian award for animal bravery, receiving the honor for searching out unexploded landmines in Cambodia. Magawa, a giant...

Considered something of a lightweight on foreign policy issues, Japan's new prime minister has spent much of his career in the shadows, supporting previous leader Shinzo Abe with backroom bureaucratic...

French terrorism authorities are investigating a knife attack that wounded at least two people Friday near the former offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, authorities said. A...

Let's call President Trump's election-time economic sanctions against Cuba what they truly are: a political play to run up the margins of his Cuban-American vote in Florida. No hotel stays....

A new statue that depicts the late pope St. John Paul II throwing a rock into red water has provoked debate in his native Poland and revived memories of a...

Cuban migrants boarded a boat in hopes of making it to America to lead new lives, but the two men who were transporting them had other nefarious plans for them,...

Four people were wounded in a knife attack Friday near the former offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and two assailants are on the run, police said. Associated...

Japanese pop sensation Arashi has a big surprise for fans as they near their planned hiatus at year's end: a collaboration with Bruno Mars on their first all-English single. The...

For people around the world, the coronavirus has caused distressing separations and delayed homecomings. But the situation for a group of 25 residents from remote Easter Island stands out. For...

Shortly after reaching the Greek island of Lesbos, a group of Afghan migrants say, their hopes for a new life in Europe were cut short when Greek authorities rounded them...

When Dr. Ronni Gamzu, one of Israel's leading public health experts, was named the country's coronavirus czar in mid-July, he was hailed as Israel's best hope for halting a fast-growing...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un apologized Friday over the killing of a South Korea official near the rivals' disputed sea boundary, saying he's “very sorry" about the “unexpected” and...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un apologized Friday over the killing of a South Korea official near the rivals' disputed sea boundary, saying he's “very sorry" about the “unexpected” and...

South Korea says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has apologized over the killing of a South Korea official. South Korea's presidential office said Friday that Kim conveyed an apology...

South Korea says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has apologized over the killing of a South Korea official. South Korea's presidential office said Friday that Kim conveyed an apology...

South Korea says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has apologized over the killing of a South Korea official. South Korea's presidential office said Friday that Kim conveyed an apology...

South Korea says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has apologized over the killing of a South Korea official. South Korea's presidential office said Friday that Kim conveyed an apology...

A cloud of uncertainty that has hung over Rio de Janeiro throughout the coronavirus pandemic has been lifted, but gloom remains — the annual Carnival parade of flamboyant samba schools...

A cloud of uncertainty that has hung over Rio de Janeiro throughout the coronavirus pandemic has been lifted, but gloom remains — the annual Carnival parade of flamboyant samba schools...