Foreign Affairs

An Indigenous woman embarks on a journey to Machu Picchu that will force her to confront horrors from her past.   … Click to Continue »

Carivaldina Oliveira da Costa was the steward of history in her Brazilian community on the northern coast of Rio de Janeiro state, and for two decades fought for their land...

A Twitter spat between a former Republican strategist who is running TV ads supporting Joe Biden's candidacy and Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio went viral on Tuesday. Steve Schmidt, a...

An $8 million disbursement for a post-earthquake industrial park that was never built. Road projects that were approved with no estimated costs or justification — including one to a banana-growing...

Iran surpassed 20,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus on Wednesday, the health ministry said — the highest death toll for any Middle East country so far in the pandemic. The...

Marco Rivadeneira worked to organize rural communities to voluntarily abandon growing coca leaves for legal crops around Puerto Asís, the largest city in the Amazonian Colombian state of Putumayo. In...

An Iraqi-born man deliberately drove his car into motorcycles along a stretch of Berlin highway, leaving at least one person in life-threatening condition in what German officials said Wednesday was...

The Belarusian opposition leader has called on European leaders not to recognize “fraudulent elections" that extended the rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko and sparked unprecedented mass protests in the...

Last summer Hong Kong's protesters called for a revolution as they occupied the city's international airport, marched in the millions and mocked Chinese President Xi Jinping as a "Game of...

The European Union stopped short of calling for fresh elections in Belarus as German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she tried and failed to get hold of President Alexander Lukashenko by...

The African Union suspended Mali's membership on Wednesday after a military coup that forced President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita to resign. The suspension would be in place "until the restoration of...

Belarus, the onetime Soviet republic now beset by opposition protests, sits squarely between Russia and the West on a political seam that is dangerously fraying. In an extraordinary session on...

Belarus, the onetime Soviet republic now beset by opposition protests, sits squarely between Russia and the West on a political seam that is dangerously fraying. In an extraordinary session on...

Kim Jong Un acknowledged that North Korea's development goals have been "seriously delayed," in the latest sign that sanctions, flooding and the coronavirus have dealt a triple blow to the...

Millions of women and girls globally have lost access to contraceptives and abortion services because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now the first widespread measure of the toll says India with...

Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced his resignation late Tuesday on state television, hours after mutinous soldiers had fired shots into the air outside his home before detaining him. The...

Two powerful and shallow undersea earthquakes shook western Indonesia on Wednesday, causing panic but no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 6.8 earthquake...

An international team of scientists said they successfully extracted eggs from the last two remaining northern white rhinos, a step on the way to possibly saving the subspecies from extinction....

A West African regional official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to journalists, confirmed that Mali's president and prime minister had been detained...

More workers in Belarus joined a widening strike Tuesday as they press for the resignation of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who has extended his 26-year rule in an election the...

Dozens of authors, artists and scholars — including writer Margaret Atwood and film directors Pedro Almodóvar and Mike Leigh— have expressed outrage at the hostility being directed toward LGBT people...

The Bahamas has shut down all public offices in its capital, banned all international flights except for emergencies, restricted hotels to essential staff only and ordered journalists to first contact...

A U.N.-backed tribunal has ruled that a member of the Hezbollah militant group is guilty beyond reasonable doubt of involvement in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik...

Judges at a U.N.-backed tribunal said Tuesday that there was no evidence the leadership of the Hezbollah militant group and Syria were involved in the 2005 suicide truck bomb assassination...

To understand the catastrophic destruction wrought by the Aug. 4 detonation of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in Beirut's port, don't look at the 45-foot-deep crater at the explosion's epicenter....

The United Nations and European Union condemned the arrests of Mali's leaders by the military on Tuesday, in what the EU called "a coup attempt." President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and...

The World Health Organization is asking leaders of its 194 member states to sign on to the COVAX Global Vaccines Facility agreement, which would commit wealthier countries to share COVID-19...

Venezuela's National Assembly on Tuesday dismissed the parliamentary elections scheduled for Dec. 6 as a "farce" and called for action to handle the country's rising number of coronavirus cases. The...

Their scars capture the horrific moment when every window shattered. The explosion in Beirut blew out windows for miles around and sent cascades of glass shards pouring onto the streets....

A resident of Hawaii and former CIA agent was arrested after he allegedly stole top secret intelligence from the United States and turned it over to the People's Republic of...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo led the U.S. delegation to the inauguration of the Dominican Republic's President Luis Abinader in Santo Domingo, Aug. 16, 2020. … Click to Continue...

A meeting between the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Haiti President Jovenel Moïse during Sunday's inauguration of new Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader is rubbing Haitians the wrong...

For four years, researchers painted fake eyes on hundreds of cattle butts for the sake of science. What seems like a silly prank, the “eye-cow technique” proved lifesaving for the...

For eager Israelis, anticipation is mounting that Dubai's glitzy Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, will soon join the ranks of the Pyramids in Egypt and the ancient ruins in...

Iraq's prime minister said Monday ahead of a much anticipated trip to Washington that his country still needs U.S. assistance to counter the threat posed by the Islamic State group...

As Belarus experiences spasms of mass protests and a brutal police crackdown, its giant neighbor Russia has been uncharacteristically low key in its response. When upheavals struck other former Soviet...

Thousands of factory workers in Belarus took to the streets and crowds of demonstrators besieged the state television headquarters Monday, raising the pressure on authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to step...

Lebanon is facing a surge in coronavirus cases after a devastating blast at the Beirut port earlier this month killed scores and wounded thousands, prompting medical officials to urge Monday...

Thousands of factory workers in Belarus took to the streets and hundreds of demonstrators besieged the state television headquarters Monday, raising the pressure on authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to step...

Geoff Woolf gave his sons a love for literature. When he got sick with COVID-19, they turned to books to help him — and others. The 73-year-old retired lawyer was...