Foreign Affairs

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok, officials in Germany announced Wednesday. Citing new lab test results, German government spokesman Steffen Siebert confirmed that...

The Russian name, in translation, sounds innocuous, even jaunty: "newcomer," "novice" or "new boy." But the Soviet-developed family of advanced nerve agents collectively known as Novichok is among the deadliest...

CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN— The only person who wasn't crying on the boat was 2-year-old Noura. Noura's mother, Hawa Diabaté, was fleeing her native Ivory Coast to what she believed was...

World War II ended 75 years ago, but not all countries commemorate it on the same day. Wednesday is the anniversary of the formal Sept. 2, 1945, surrender of Japan...

The Khmer Rouge's chief jailer, who admitted overseeing the torture and killings of as many as 16,000 Cambodians while running the regime's most notorious prison, has died. Kaing Guek Eav,...

In a harsh response to the increasing division in the Venezuelan opposition, U.S special envoy Elliott Abrams said that one opposition leader's latest comments on a potential American military intervention...

The man portrayed in the film “Hotel Rwanda” as saving the lives of more than 1,200 people from genocide was “kidnapped” while in Dubai, his daughter asserts, while a video...

In less than 24 hours on the ground, Israel's first-of-its-kind delegation to the United Arab Emirates received a royal welcome that would have been nearly unthinkable just a few weeks...

Tugging on their masks or dashing to hug long-unseen friends, millions of children returned to school across Europe and beyond Tuesday in a mass experiment aimed at bridging inequalities and...

Ed Sheeran and his wife, Cherry, have announced the birth of their daughter, Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran. The singer-songwriter said in an Instagram post that the couple's “beautiful and healthy...

Russia's tally of confirmed coronavirus cases surpassed 1 million on Tuesday as authorities reported 4,729 new cases. With a total of 1,000,048 reported cases, Russia has the fourth largest caseload...

Russia became the fourth country to pass 1 million confirmed cases of COVID-19, joining the U.S., India and Brazil, on the day schools across the country reopened for the new...

Lebanese officials facing a devastated economy, coronavirus concerns and the task of forming a new government on Tuesday took a back seat to visiting French President Emmanuel Macron during the...

The venom from European honeybees has been found to be "remarkably effective" at killing hard-to-treat aggressive breast cancer cells, according to researchers in Western Australia. The study conducted by the...

The venom from European honeybees has been found to be "remarkably effective" at killing hard-to-treat aggressive breast cancer cells, according to researchers in Western Australia. The study conducted by the...

Even before the Aug. 9 presidential election in Belarus ended, a poll worker in Minsk said she was asked to sign a document summing up its result, with the vote...

Over a three-decade military career, Israeli Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin has led commando raids, fought in wars and even earned a degree at Harvard. But he has never seen anything...

When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, the first thing Hidekazu Tamura, a Japanese American living in California, thought was, “I'll be killed at the hands of my fellow Americans.”...

From the Israeli captain's emotional greeting in Arabic upon takeoff in Tel Aviv, to the warm Emirati reception on the ground in scorching Abu Dhabi, it was obvious this was...

Miami's Josbel Fernandez was piloting a 32-foot boat that plowed into jagged rocks off the coast of Bimini in July, hurling two passengers off the vessel and to their death....

American R&B singer Akon is moving ahead with plans to create a futuristic pan-African city, announcing Monday that construction will begin next year on the $6 billion project despite global...

Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in the film “Hotel Rwanda” as a hero who saved the lives of more than 1,200 people from the country's 1994 genocide, has been arrested by the...

Police in Hong Kong used pepper spray and made several arrests as dozens of protesters gathered Monday at a subway station to mark the anniversary of a violent clash last...

Paul Rusesabagina, portrayed in the film “Hotel Rwanda” as a hero who saved the lives of more than 1,200 people from the country's 1994 genocide, has been arrested by the...

In a world turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic, rarely have so many kids relished the end of their summer vacations — and rarely have so many teachers faced...

During a kite festival in Taiwan, a crowd cheered as a team released a giant long-tailed kite into the sky. But seconds later the cheers turned into terrified screams when...

At least 27 people were hospitalized after being poisoned at a rave party in Oslo by carbon monoxide given off by portable generators, Norwegian media reported. Police said Monday that...

The arresting officers came for the young man about a month after he was declared free of the coronavirus and discharged from the hospital. While he was battling a mild...

India is fast becoming the world's new virus epicenter, setting a record for the biggest single-day rise in cases as experts predict that it'll soon pass Brazil – and ultimately...

Leaders of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party will meet Tuesday to formulate rules for a vote to replace Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a process that will go a long way...

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro issued a surprise decree pardoning more than 100 of his opponents as a concession ahead of upcoming congressional elections. Former National Assembly Vice President Freddy Guevara...

A private health insurer and medical provider that delivers health care to U.S. patients in Mexico said Monday it plans to offer free COVID-19 testing in Tijuana. SIMNSA is a...

When police arrested the middle-aged Uighur woman at the height of China's coronavirus outbreak, she was crammed into a cell with dozens of other women in a detention center. There,...

Not all French classrooms can safely reopen Tuesday, the country's education minister acknowledged Sunday, as a persistent rise in coronavirus infections jeopardizes the government's push to get France's 12.9 million...

Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered Sunday in the capital of Belarus, beginning the fourth week of daily protests demanding the resignation of the country's authoritarian president after an election...

Awakened by a thunderstorm at his home on Bowen Island in British Columbia, Cal Misener remembered he'd left the windows rolled down on his truck. The 50-year-old slipped on a...

The arrival of hundreds of migrants crammed into a rickety fishing boat has worsened the severe overcrowding at shelters on a tiny Italian island, triggering an angry demonstration by islanders...

Rescue efforts ended at a two-story restaurant in a northern Chinese village that collapsed during a local resident's 80th birthday celebration, leaving 29 people dead, authorities said Sunday. The Ministry...

Voters in Montenegro on Sunday cast ballots in a tense election that is pitting the long-ruling pro-Western party against the opposition seeking closer ties with Serbia and Russia. The parliamentary...

India on Sunday registered a record new 78,761 coronavirus cases, the highest single-day spike in the world since the pandemic began, just as the government began easing restrictions to help...