Foreign Affairs

In a typical year, more than 1 million students come from all over the world to study at U.S. colleges and universities. They've never had more reasons to reconsider. The...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday that he was stepping down because of illness, ending a record-breaking tenure marked less by grand achievements than by measured economic and diplomatic...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has decided to resign because of health reasons, local media including NHK reported. Abe is expected to give a news conference at 5 p.m. Friday...

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed his intention to step down due to his declining health, according to reports Friday by NHK and other Japanese media. The Prime Minister's...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed intention to step down, citing his declining health, according to Japan's NHK television and other media. Japan's Prime Minister's Office said the report...

In May, facing urgent international demands for action after a string of massive wildfires in the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro put the army in charge of protecting the rainforest....

The United States and most of the rest of the U.N. Security Council dug in their heels Thursday on diametrically opposed positions over the restoration of international sanctions on Iran....

A Miami-based pro-immigration group has launched a TV ad targeting Asian American voters by highlighting President Donald Trump's controversial rhetoric about China and the coronavirus. The 60-second ad, which will...

Almost two centuries ago, a pile of bones was found buried in an England sea cliff. It was later brought to fossil expert, and inventor of the word dinosaur, Richard...

About 11,500 pounds of cocaine and 17,000 pounds of marijuana were offloaded at Port Everglades Thursday morning from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton, according to the Coast Guard's Seventh...

The virus is actively circulating in about 20% of France's regions and masks will now be required for everyone in Paris — but the government is determined to reopen schools...

A recent afternoon swim call for the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Kimball at sea in the Pacific Ocean turned out to be anything but routine, video shows....

Russia has a reserve of law enforcement officers prepared to enter Belarus to stop ongoing protests there, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a state television interview broadcast on Thursday....

Peru has set another grim record by reporting the highest number of deaths per capita from the coronavirus. With 28,277 confirmed deaths from COVID-19, or 86.2 per 100,000 inhabitants, Peru...

Francesca Moody is spending August the way she always does: in darkened rooms in Edinburgh, watching some of the best new theater and comedy the world has to offer. All...

A mother and her three children scanned the school supplies in a Paris supermarket, plucking out multicolored fountain pens, crisp notebooks – and plenty of masks. Despite resurgent coronavirus infections,...

The white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The judge imposed the maximum available...

Two Colombian activists exiled in Miami — Fabio Andrade and Jaime Flórez — have been asking a Miami-Dade County commissioner since late last year to “pay tribute” in some way...

A typhoon that grazed South Korea, ripping off roofs and knocking out power to more than 1,600 households, made landfall in North Korea early Thursday. South Korean authorities said there...

A 29-year-old Dutch writer has become the youngest author to win the International Booker Prize. Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's “The Discomfort of Evening,” a dark story about a devout farming family...

Police in Belarus dispersed protesters who gathered on the capital's central square, detaining dozens Wednesday in an effort to end weeks of demonstrations challenging the re-election of the country's authoritarian...

In early January 2017, when the Cuban government was looking for insights into the newly elected President Donald Trump, his former campaign chief, Paul Manafort, traveled to the island to...

The U.N. nuclear watchdog agency says Tehran has agreed to allow inspectors in to two sites where Iran is suspected of having stored or used undeclared nuclear material. The International...

Two weeks after schools were ordered reopened in Haiti, classrooms around the country remain empty because teachers are refusing to come to work over back pay and poor working conditions...

Organizers of Europe's biggest street fair, which traces its roots to the emancipation of Black slaves and race riots in London during the late 1950s, say the event is more...

The man responsible for two deadly attacks on New Zealand mosques in 2019 will remain behind bars for the rest of his life, with no possibility of release. It is...

If Shinzo Abe resigns over health problems, the next Japanese prime minister might tweak policy on everything from China ties to monetary policy, without making drastic changes. Since taking power...

Iran agreed on Wednesday to grant international nuclear inspectors access to two suspected sites, in a rare conciliatory move that came after months of increasing tensions between Tehran and Washington....

Belarusian Nobel literature laureate and prominent democracy activist Svetlana Alexievich on Wednesday told anti-government protesters not to give in as she faced a committee over her remarks against long-time President...

The coronavirus is exposing an uncomfortable inequality in the billion-dollar system that delivers life-saving aid for countries in crisis: Most money that flows from the U.S. and other donors goes...

In three decades of failed peace efforts, the Palestinians have never faced a more hostile U.S. administration, a more self-assured Israel or a more ambivalent international community. But even as...

Brenton Harrison Tarrant told a New Zealand judge Wednesday he will not speak in his defense at his sentencing hearing for the mass shooting of worshippers at two Christchurch mosques....

Winter is ending in the Southern Hemisphere and country after country -- South Africa, Australia, Argentina -- had a surprise: Their steps against COVID-19 also apparently blocked the flu. But...

The poetic words of love from a daughter to her murdered father brought many people to tears in a New Zealand courtroom Wednesday during the sentencing hearing for the white...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will not continue to provide food program waivers that have ensured students are fed while schools are closed during the coronavirus pandemic unless Congress acts,...

Stephanie Blais, a 44-year-old teacher, had called her father by satellite phone Thursday evening to report fixing a broken waterline at the family's cabin at McKie Lake in Canada. Blais...

Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man, has tested positive for the coronavirus, the latest Jamaican to do so in an alarming surge of infections in the Caribbean nation. Bolt's positive...

The BBC has ditched the lyrics of “Rule Britannia!” for its traditional end-of-summer concert amid a debate about the song's celebration of the British Empire at a time when critics...

Russia brushed off a call by German Chancellor Angela Merkel for a full investigation into the suspected poisoning of Alexei Navalny, saying it's still not clear yet that the opposition...

It was a missile strike, one story goes, no doubt carried out by an American drone. No, it was the work of Israeli fighter jets, according to another tale, a...