Foreign Affairs

Two tropical stormjs advanced across the Caribbean Saturday as potentially historic threats to the U.S. Gulf Coast, one dumping rain on Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands while the other...

Pakistan issued sweeping financial sanctions against Afghanistan's Taliban, just as the militant group is in the midst of U.S.-led peace process in the neighboring country. The orders, which were made...

Behind each protester in Belarus is a surprising story of awakening. A police officer who quit his job, ashamed of violence by his colleagues. A paramedic who treated victims of...

Prominent Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny, who has been in a coma since Thursday, remains in a "very critical" if stable condition since arriving in Germany for medical treatment after...

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko visited one of the nation's big state-owned factories in the capital Minsk this week, aiming to show he still had support despite nationwide calls for his...

More than three-quarters of Germans surveyed – 76% – expect improved relations between the United States and Europe should Democrat Joe Biden win the election in November, according to the...

More than three-quarters of Germans surveyed – 76% – expect improved relations between the United States and Europe should Democrat Joe Biden win the election in November, according to the...

Belarusian authorities are restricting public access to news media in an effort to prevent the spread of information about continuing protests against President Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian Association of Journalists...

A plane carrying Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma after a suspected poisoning, touched down early Saturday in Berlin, where he will be treated in the German...

Tropical Storm Marco has formed over the northwestern Caribbean joining Tropical Storm Laura in the Atlantic. Laura's forecast path has also moved farther south, affecting less of the Florida Keys...

The famous “floating gardens” of Xochimilco reopened to visitors Friday after a five-month lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic. The canals that run through man-made islands created by the Aztecs on...

Islands in the northern Caribbean, from Puerto Rico to Hispaniola to Cuba, braced Friday for the onslaught of gusty winds and heavy rainfall from Laura, the latest tropical storm to...

Trump administration officials have been negotiating for months with the regime of embattled Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro over the release of American citizens stuck in the country, a process that...

Thousands marched Friday in the streets of Mali's capital to celebrate the overthrow of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, as the West African nation's political opposition backed the military's junta plan...

Puerto Rico's residents and emergency management authorities prepared Friday for the arrival of the latest storm to hit an island that, in the last three years, has been through two...

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for an overdue sailboat that left Cuba last Saturday en route to South Florida. The Coast Guard believes eight people, including two children, were...

Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny, who is in a near-fatal, comatose condition in a Siberian hospital, can be evacuated to Germany for treatment, after Russian health officials said on Friday...

Modern technology and international cooperation could limit the COVID-19 pandemic to less than two years, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hopes. "Hoping we can have additional tools like...

A new national campaign against food waste in China has sparked a rare bout of speculation over the government's ability to safely feed its 1.4 billion citizens when faced with...

The Trump administration ran into immediate opposition after its top diplomat officially informed the United Nations it is demanding the restoration of all U.N. sanctions on Iran, with allies and...

The doors to the AMC Waterfront 22 were locked. They had been for five months, along with most indoor theaters in the U.S. because of COVID-19. But in 20 minutes...

The Venice Film Festival, the first major in-person cinema showcase of the COVID-19 era, is requiring participants to wear face masks during screenings and take a coronavirus test if they...

As a former culture minister and ambassador to France, Pavel Latushko is the most well-connected member of a new council established by the political opposition in Belarus to facilitate a...

Newly released footage of a planned blasting incident in an Australia quarry revealed the moments before rocks the size of large watermelons went flying toward a team of workers involved...

Relatives are demanding answers in the July 2, 2020 boat crash in Bimini that killed Javier Perez, of Miami. His girlfriend, Carolyn Alvarez, went overboard and remains missing, August 12,...

The brother of the suicide bomber who set off an explosion at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, killing 22 people and injuring hundreds, has been sentenced to...

In a new challenge to Belarus' authoritarian ruler, hundreds of employees of state television have gone on strike amid a rising tide of protests, calling for his resignation after a...

A U.S.-brokered deal that saw Israel and the United Arab Emirates begin to open diplomatic ties may end up with Abu Dhabi purchasing advanced American weaponry, potentially upending both a...

Russia's most prominent opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, is hardly the first foe of President Vladimir Putin to suddenly suffer a life-threatening medical emergency, or a lethal one, under suspicious circumstances....

It was a startling fall from grace in a country where high-level corruption is rarely prosecuted. In 2019, Emilio Lozoya, the former head of Mexico's state oil company, one of...

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma in a Siberian hospital after a case of suspected poisoning, is to travel to Germany for treatment. A special aircraft...

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who is in a coma in a Siberian hospital after a case of suspected poisoning, is to travel to Germany for treatment. A special aircraft...

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was poisoned and hospitalized on Thursday morning, his spokeswoman said. The 44-year-old foe of Russia's President Vladimir Putin felt unwell on a flight back to...

Residents of this small town in the farming country of northern Jamaica watched elated Wednesday night as Kamala Harris, daughter of one of the many Orange Hill residents who emigrated...

A former top Trump administration official at the Department of Homeland Security confirmed Wednesday reports from last year that President Donald Trump sought to swap Puerto Rico for Greenland after...

Cuba will start testing its own COVID-19 vaccine candidate next week, according to the official Cuban registry of clinical trials. The vaccine, Soberana 01, was produced by the state-run Finlay...

The junta that forced Mali's president to resign urged people to go back to business as usual on Wednesday, seeking to normalize their coup amid global condemnation from leaders who...

Hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday rallied against the U.S.-brokered deal to normalize ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Protesters burned Israeli and American flags,...

Two Venezuelan nationals on a Learjet taxiing to a takeoff from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Saturday were charged with smuggling in Fort Lauderdale federal court on Monday. According to...

In the Peruvian Andes, an indigenous woman embarks on a journey to her ancestral home that will force her to confront the horrors from her past. Maxi Manuttupa is a...