Foreign Affairs

Desperate for a drink? There is spit-fermented wine, liquor fermented in prison toilets, and a strong Scottish brew served from the mouth of a taxidermied squirrel. The Disgusting Food Museum...

Despite efforts from the Nicolás Maduro regime to block its access, digital wallet provider AirTM continues to gain ground in Venezuela and is set to start processing payments worth millions...

Parents walked toward a wall of metal barriers, holding the hands of their first-graders as dozens of police and men in dark clothes watched and scowled in the afternoon light....

TOKYO – A picture of U.S. President Donald Trump beams down from the wall of Yoshihide Suga's office. The two men are standing side by side in the photo, a...

Rescue workers resumed search operations early Friday in a building that collapsed last month in Beirut's deadly blast in hopes of finding a survivor under the rubble after a pulsing...

All the attempts over the years to stop the work of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny have failed — so far. He's been jailed repeatedly and twice put on trial for...

Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness led his Jamaica Labor Party to “a tsunami-like” victory Thursday in the country's general elections amid a soaring coronavirus pandemic, according to preliminary results. At...

The authoritarian leader of Belarus reshuffled his top government lieutenants Thursday in an apparent attempt to strengthen his position amid weeks of protests pushing for him to resign after 26...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Thursday that the United States will not recognize the results of the December parliamentary elections organized by Nicolás Maduro, despite the controversial decision...

Bilan lanmò Covid montre viris la ap afekte Ayisyen yo anpil nan Miyami … Click to Continue »

A pulsing signal was detected Thursday from under the rubble of a Beirut building that collapsed during the horrific port explosion in the Lebanese capital last month, raising hopes there...

A 17-year-old boy's paddleboarding excursion in the United Kingdom ended with a desperate call for help after he was left stranded at sea with just two items that saved his...

A 17-year-old was rescued by the RNLI and the coastguard after he got into difficulty while he was paddleboarding off the Welsh coast. … Click to Continue »

Novichok, a deadly nerve agent that has left Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny in a coma and nearly killed a former Russian spy and his daughter in 2018, was the...

Japanese rescuers were searching Thursday for a livestock ship carrying 42 crew members that a survivor said sank during rough weather a day earlier off a southern Japanese island, the...

Actress Juliette Binoche and fellow French environmentalists received encouragement from Pope Francis at a private Vatican meeting Thursday where he told them people shouldn't lose hope even when the condition...

The confirmed death toll from the coronavirus went over 50,000 in the Middle East on Thursday as the pandemic continues. That's according to a count from The Associated Press, based...

Fritzner Fabre, a healthcare aide who cared for coronavirus patients, spent his final days holed up in a ramshackle North Miami-Dade efficiency, coughing and wheezing. He was 41 when he...

South Florida's Haitian American community has been hit hard by COVID-19. The recent death of two pastors from the same Ft. Lauderdale church has made many in the community begin...

A prominent British human rights lawyer is convening an independent tribunal in London to investigate whether the Chinese government's alleged rights abuses against Uighur Muslims in the far western Xinjiang...

Australia has announced it will be extending its international border restrictions for at least another three months, to protect the country against the spread of the coronavirus. The restrictions on...

Thailand detected its first locally transmitted COVID-19 case since late May, snapping a streak of 100 days without community transmission. The new case on Thursday was confirmed in an inmate...

Brazil, which has suffered one of the world's worst pandemic tolls, has responded to the crisis by distributing so much cash directly to citizens that poverty and inequality are approaching...

Brazil, which has suffered one of the world's worst pandemic tolls, has responded to the crisis by distributing so much cash directly to citizens that poverty and inequality are approaching...

Brazil, which has suffered one of the world's worst pandemic tolls, has responded to the crisis by distributing so much cash directly to citizens that poverty and inequality are approaching...

When the bowling alley reopened, Zohal Bayat was eager to get back to the lanes. For four long months amid Afghanistan's coronavirus, it and other recreational facilities had been closed....

When Bangladeshi authorities prepared to enforce a nationwide lockdown in late March, three friends fretted: How would rickshaw drivers, factory workers and other working poor people survive? With only 20,000...

A film about a classical musician's struggle to balance his career dreams and life in contemporary Mumbai will this week return India to the main competition at the Venice Film...

Hurricane Nana brushed past Honduras and barreled toward Belize, where thousands of people were stocking up on food, water and construction materials ahead of its landfall expected early Thursday. Long...

Hurricane Nana barreled westward Wednesday just off the coast of Honduras on a collision course with the Central American nation of Belize, where thousands of people were stocking up on...

Whether it was the recent protests against racial injustice and police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's killing, or the demonstrations in favor of Haitian refugees or against U.S....

Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has tested positive for COVID-19 after a precautionary check and will quarantine at home, his press office said on Wednesday. Berlusconi, who is 83,...

Leonardo Santilli, a Venezuelan businessman charged in Miami with laundering millions of dollars from oil contracts, was gunned down Tuesday by a motorcycle assassin in Venezuela. … Click to Continue...

The number of elephants dying in western Zimbabwe from a suspected bacterial infection, possibly from eating poisonous plants, has risen to 22, and “more deaths are expected,” a spokesman for...

While the United States was creating confusion with its virus messaging, the rest of the world got creative. … Click to Continue »

The BBC on Wednesday reversed its controversial decision to scrap the lyrics of two patriotic songs during its annual end-of-summer concert, saying it had found a way around the problem...

Every day Joselyn García lights two red candles before a marble urn that holds her mother's ashes in the living room of her wooden home in the north of Peru's...

The German government says tests performed on samples taken from Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny showed the presence of the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. Navalny, a politician and corruption investigator...

Thirteen men and a woman go on trial Wednesday over the 2015 attacks against a satirical newspaper and a kosher supermarket in Paris that marked the beginning of a wave...

Thailand has reported zero locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases for 100 days in a row, joining a small group of places like Taiwan where the pathogen has been virtually eliminated. The Southeast...