Foreign Affairs

Eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar will allow the country's oil ports to reopen after an eight-month blockade, the U.S. Embassy said in a statement. Eastern forces, which imposed a blockade...

Peru President Martin Vizcarra is pushing back on an impeachment attempt, asking the country's top court to halt the process while accusing the head of congress of involving the military...

Yoshihide Suga, the front-runner to become Japan's next premier, emphasized the importance of the nation's alliance with the U.S. for the country's foreign policy. "With the U.S.-Japan alliance at the...

President Donald Trump's candidate Mauricio Claver-Carone won the election to lead the Inter-American Development Bank, placing an American at the head of the important lender as he looks to counter...

At this very moment a vast world exists that's free of the coronavirus, where people can mingle without masks and watch the pandemic unfold from thousands of miles away. That...

Kamala Harris courted Venezuelan, African-American and Jewish voters during her first visit to Miami on behalf of her running mate, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. But other than a “Sak...

The number of new confirmed coronavirus cases spiked Friday in parts of eastern Europe, with Hungary and the Czech Republic registering all-time daily highs. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said...

Thousands of protesting refugees and migrants left homeless on the Greek island of Lesbos after fires destroyed the notoriously overcrowded Moria camp gathered on a road leading to the island's...

White smoke rose from the smoldering wreckage of Beirut's port on Friday hours after firefighters extinguished a huge fire that terrified the city's residents five weeks after a massive blast...

When Cuban independent news site 14ymedio recently scooped the government and published the regime's plans to charge for food in dollars, the news spread like fire on social media, causing...

On a sunny June day in Nepal, hundreds of young people in face masks stood a meter apart behind the barbed-wire barricades and rows of riot police guarding the prime...

On a sunny June day in Nepal, hundreds of young people in face masks stood a meter apart behind the barbed-wire barricades and rows of riot police guarding the prime...

Afghanistan's government will begin peace talks with Taliban leaders on Saturday in a bid to end two-decades of war in a meeting fraught with tension over what the insurgent group...

Mexico's water wars have turned deadly. A long-simmering dispute about shared water rights between Mexico and the United States has erupted into open clashes pitting Mexican National Guard troops against...

All five intensive care beds dedicated to COVID patients are in use at the Laveran Military Training Hospital in Marseille, and its doctors are bracing for more. It's a small...

During his visit this month, French President Emmanuel Macron gave Lebanon's politicians a road map for policy changes and reform, set deadlines for them to take action and told them...

As COVID-19 spread quickly through Peru's Amazon, the Indigenous Shipibo community decided to turn to the wisdom of their ancestors. Hospitals were far away, short on doctors and running out...

As COVID-19 spread quickly through Peru's Amazon, the Indigenous Shipibo community decided to turn to the wisdom of their ancestors. Hospitals were far away, short on doctors and running out...

The Indian and Chinese foreign ministers agreed their troops should disengage from a tense border standoff, maintain proper distance and ease tensions in the cold-desert Ladakh region where the two...

The USDA issued a public health alert about certain 300 g (10.58-ounce) packs of cooked duck blood curds, and not because of discomfort with what it knows. It knows very...

The long-awaited peace talks with the negotiating team selected by the Afghan government are to begin on Saturday in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar, the Taliban said in a...

South Florida's Haitian and immigration activists will honor the memory of the late Jack Lieberman, an activist and organizer who dedicated his life to social justice and left-leaning causes. The...

The Italian fashion council's only Black designer has hailed as a ‘'breakthrough'' the inclusion of a Black Lives Matter event to the official September show calendar and the formation of...

Katerin Facundo Livia lives in Lomas de Carabayllo on the northern outskirts of Lima with her mom, brother and two-year-old son. When the coronavirus first hit Peru in mid-March no...

Red-eyed from crying, José Collantes Navarro couldn't contain himself and crumpled against the wall as he watched his partner being buried at the Catholic Cemetery in Chile's capital. She had...

Red-eyed from crying, José Collantes Navarro couldn't contain himself and crumpled against the wall as he watched his partner being buried at the Catholic Cemetery in Chile's capital. She had...

Diana Rigg, a British actress who became a 1960s style icon as secret agent Emma Peel in TV series “The Avengers,” has died. She was 82. Rigg's agent Simon Beresford...

A huge fire broke out Thursday at the Port of Beirut, triggering panic among residents a month after the massive explosion. It was not immediately clear what caused the fire...

For six weeks this summer, it appeared that an idyllic Turks and Caicos was beating back the coronavirus. As cases continued to rise elsewhere in the Caribbean, the sun-splashed island...

Dressed in black hoods and armed with spray paint, the women stormed into Mexico's National Human Rights Commission and seized control. They evicted government workers, ripped paintings of revolutionary heroes...

A large fire broke out in Beirut's port Thursday, filling the skies of the Lebanese capital with thick black smoke and raising fears of a repeat of the cataclysmic explosion...

A senior opposition leader in Belarus said Thursday she was threatened with death if she refused to leave the country as President Alexander Lukashenko ordered law enforcement to take harsher...

A Northern California wildfire burning for more than three weeks roared to life after being stoked by high winds, spreading a ferocious rate across an estimated 25 miles (40 kilometers)...

An 80-year-old hiker was missing for days — then showed up at a news conference about his disappearance. Harry Harvey went hiking during a hailstorm in England and got separated...

Maggie O'Farrell won the Women's Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for “Hamnet,” a novel that explores the lives of William Shakespeare's often-maligned wife and lost son. O'Farrell's novel beat finalists...

The coronavirus pandemic has led to the cancellation of this year's premiere global art fairs since March, stymieing the main commercial artery of the multibillion-dollar industry. But Art Paris, which...

An anti-immigrant Norwegian lawmaker said Wednesday that he has nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in the Middle East. Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member...

New limits on social gatherings in England to six people are set to stay in place for the “foreseeable future,” potentially until or even through Christmas, British Health Secretary Matt...

On their second date last year, feeling a little drunk at a seaside restaurant, Kim Seo-yun let slip a revelation to her South Korean love interest: She had fled North...

Restricted travel, quarantine and positive COVID-19 tests meant that Majid Majidi's appearance at the Venice Film Festival for Iranian drama “Sun Children” (Khorshid) was an achievement in itself. The film...