Foreign Affairs

Belarus jailed two leaders of the largest protests against President Alexander Lukashenko in the country's history, a shift in tactic after police violence against peaceful demonstrators sparked widespread outrage. The...

Northbound border lanes into California were nearly empty Tuesday morning after nightmarish 10-hour traffic jams clogged Tijuana's streets and freeways Sunday through Monday. Customs and Border Protection increased its enforcement...

As the world eagerly awaits a coronavirus vaccine, Africa got some good news on Tuesday as polio was declared eradicated, leaving only one region in the world where the wild...

The president of the U.N. Security Council said Tuesday it would not take further action on a bid by the United States to trigger snapback sanctions against Iran. "There is...

Relatives and survivors from a mass shooting at two New Zealand mosques described in court on Tuesday how more than a year later, they are still having trouble sleeping, enjoying...

Authorities in the Gaza Strip on Monday announced the first coronavirus cases spread through the community, raising fears of a potentially devastating outbreak in the impoverished Palestinian territory blockaded by...

Few of Mexico's cultural traditions have been hit as hard by the coronavirus pandemic as “lucha libre” wrestling. The death toll among wrestlers has risen dramatically and wrestling arenas are...

Cuba has been spared the worst of Tropical Storm Laura, which was battering most of the island Monday with heavy rains and coastal swells in low-lying areas without causing the...

Images from the Cuban city of Baracoa, in Holguín, show Tropical Storm Laura's waves spilling over the city's seawall and beyond on Sunday. … Click to Continue »

Just as millions of children are heading back to school, the World Health Organization says those aged 6 to 11 should wear masks in some cases to help fight the...

The German hospital treating Russian dissident Alexei Navalny says tests indicate that he was poisoned. The Charité hospital said in a statement Monday that the team of doctors who have...

The organizers of the Berlin International Film Festival say they will stop awarding separate acting prizes to women and men beginning next year. Berlinale organizers said Monday the performance awards...

Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who is seeking another five years in office, has decided to suspend his campaign as of Sunday to try to deal with an alarming spike...

Tests on Alexei Navalny indicate that the Russian anti-corruption campaigner was poisoned, according to the German hospital that's treating him. Navalny is in serious, but stable condition, according to a...

After a day as a hurricane, Tropical Storm Marco approached Louisiana for an expected landfall around midday Monday, while Tropical Storm Laura was forecast to move along Cuba's southern coast...

The white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques had intended to burn down the mosques afterward, a prosecutor said in court Monday, while describing two of...

Britain's prime minister is asking parents to set aside their fears and send their children back to school next month when schools in Britain fully reopen for the first time...

Tropical Storm Laura battered Haiti on Sunday, August 23, 2020, flooding the streets of capital Port-au-Prince and cutting off roads across the country. … Click to Continue »

More than 100,000 protesters demanding the resignation of Belarus' authoritarian president rallied Sunday in a vast square in the capital and later marched through the city, keeping up the massive...

At least five people are dead in Haiti, where persistent rainfall from Tropical Storm Laura Sunday buried large swaths of the country under murky floodwaters as the storm unleashed flash...

Florida's impacts from the dual storms approaching the Gulf of Mexico appeared to be limited to stormy weather in the Florida Keys, which could begin Monday evening, according to the...

More than 100,000 protesters demanding the resignation of Belarus' authoritarian president rallied Sunday in a vast square in the capital, keeping up the massive outburst of dissent that has shaken...

Sicily's governor has ordered all migrant residences on the Italian island to be shut down by Monday, part of a push-back by Italian regions alarmed by a surge in COVID-19...

Thirteen people died in a stampede at a disco in Peru after a police raid to enforce the country's lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Sunday. The stampede happened...

Iran has retrieved some data, including a portion of cockpit conversations, from the Ukrainian jetliner accidentally downed by the Revolutionary Guard forces in January, killing all 176 people on board,...

The South Korean government is considering raising its social-distancing restrictions to the highest level as coronavirus cases spread beyond the Seoul Metropolitan area and Busan. The government is currently studying...

Protesters gathered in Minsk as opposition forces try to keep up pressure on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, while his security apparatus makes a show of force in the country's capital....

A week ago, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was on a roll with his anti-corruption campaign, boosted by a video of rivals counting piles of cash and leaked testimony...

Prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is under German state protection from police while being treated at a Berlin hospital for suspected poisoning in Siberia, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA)...

Following the death of a journalist in unexplained circumstances in Mexican police custody, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico issued a statement on Sunday calling for a...

Millions of migrant workers made arduous journeys to their villages after India imposed the world's largest lockdown in March. Back in the rural hinterland, many say caste discrimination is reversing...

India's coronavirus caseload topped 3 million on Sunday, with the country leading the world in new infections as the disease marched through impoverished rural areas in the north and the...

In June, India began using cheaper, faster but less accurate tests to scale up testing for the coronavirus — a strategy that the United States is now considering. These rapid...

Tropical Storm Marco is swirling over the Gulf of Mexico heading for a possible hit on the Louisiana coast as a hurricane, while Tropical Storm Laura knocked utilities out as...

As a disorganized Tropical Storm Laura churned past a shaking Puerto Rico Saturday, where residents braced for pounding rain and more aftershocks from an early morning 3.4 magnitude earthquake, residents...

Michelle Morales was washing dishes in her home in the Puerto Rican municipality of Guánica Saturday morning when the earth began to tremble. She ran outside the home with her...

Top West African officials were in Mali's capital on Saturday to meet with junta leaders and the country's deposed president to try to negotiate a return to civilian rule after...

Authorities in Belarus have blocked more than 50 news media websites reporting on how the country has been shaken by two weeks of protests demanding that authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko...

Germany held a pop concert Saturday to see how those attending would spread coronavirus. German researchers studying COVID-19 packed part of a Leipzig arena with volunteers, collecting data in a...

Authorities in Belarus have blocked an array of news media websites reporting on the country shaken by two weeks of protests against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko. The Belarusian Association of...