Foreign Affairs

Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was arrested Monday on suspicion of breaching the new national security law, local media reported. Lai was reportedly arrested on suspicion of collusion with...

Belarusian police violently cracked down on protests that erupted in major cities on Sunday night, as state media said longtime President Alexander Lukashenko was poised to win a sixth consecutive...

World leaders pledged hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to help support Lebanon and rebuild Beirut after the deadly blasts last week that destroyed a huge swathe of the...

Australia had its deadliest pandemic day, with 17 COVID-19 fatalities in the state of Victoria. The number of new cases climbed by 394 taking the state total to 14,659, Premier...

The governments of the U.S., U.K., Australia, Canada and New Zealand said they are "gravely concerned" by the Hong Kong government's decision to postpone legislative elections and bar pro-democracy candidates...

The Air India Express jet that overshot the runway on Friday, killing at least 18 people, had touched down too far down the airstrip, the chief of India's aviation regulator...

The nearly 3,000 tons of highly flammable ammonium nitrate that caused last week's disastrous explosion in Lebanon didn't languish forgotten in the years after an alarm was first raised. A...

Afghanistan's government will release hardened Taliban prisoners to clear the final hurdle for direct peace talks with the insurgent group and end the 19-year war. President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday...

A traditional Afghan council concluded Sunday with hundreds of delegates agreeing to free 400 Taliban members, paving the way for an early start to negotiations between Afghanistan's warring sides. The...

The United States' failure to contain the spread of the coronavirus has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe, as the world's most powerful country edges closer to a...

Belarusians are voting on whether to grant their authoritarian president a sixth term in office, following a campaign marked by unusually strong demonstrations by opposition supporters frustrated with the country's...

Sri Lanka's former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in as the prime minister for the fourth time Sunday after his party secured a landslide victory in parliamentary elections that cemented...

The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with the mayor and dwindling survivors urging world leaders including their own to do...

Brazil surpassed a grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday night, and five months after the first reported case the country has not shown signs of crushing the...

Women in Italy can now use the abortion pill on an outpatient basis rather than be hospitalized to terminate a pregnancy. Italy's health minister, Roberto Speranza, announced the change in...

A large crowd of LGBT rights supporters gathered in Warsaw on Saturday to protest the arrest of a transgender activist who had carried out acts of civil disobedience against rising...

The latest on the explosion in Beirut (all times local): 7:15 p.m. A group of Lebanese protesters including retired army officers have stormed the Foreign Ministry building in the capital...

Lebanese security forces are firing tear gas at stone-throwing protesters after they tried to reach the Parliament area in downtown Beirut. Thousands of people had poured into Beirut's main square...

Wild horses, bison and other big-hoofed animals once roamed freely in much of Europe. Now they are transforming a former military base outside the Czech capital in an ambitious project...

Senior officials from the Middle East and Europe started arriving in Lebanon on Saturday in a show of solidarity with the tiny country that suffered a deadly explosion this week...

The gigantic explosion in Beirut on Tuesday tore through homes, blowing off doors and windows, toppling cupboards, and sent flying books, shelves, lamps and everything else. Dozens were trapped under...

A Somali police officer says at least eight soldiers are dead and more than 14 others wounded after a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the gates of a...

A Venezuelan court sentenced two former U.S. special forces soldiers to 20 years in prison for their part in a failed beach attack aimed at overthrowing President Nicolás Maduro, prosecutors...

After 26 years in office, the authoritarian leader of Belarus is facing the toughest challenge yet as he runs for a sixth term. Discontent over a worsening economy and the...

It was almost as if Emmanuel Macron forgot that Lebanon is no longer a French protectorate. Visiting explosion-ravaged Beirut this week, France's leader comforted distraught crowds, promised to rebuild the...

A close twin sister, now separated forever. An attentive and doting husband who sacrificed for his family and promised his wife the moon. A student financing his education by working...

Thousands of Lebanese on Saturday mourned the victims of the Beirut port blast with anger and protests, amid reports of clashes with police as demonstrators called for the removal of...

Global leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump will participate in an international aid conference on Sunday to support Lebanon, as the country, crippled by corruption, a banking crisis and growing...

Two mercenaries from the United States have been convicted for a failed kidnapping attempt on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in May, Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab tweeted on Friday....

Two mercenaries from the United States have been convicted for a failed kidnapping attempt on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in May, Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab tweeted on Friday....

With tourists still absent and office workers continuing to toil from home more than two months after Italy's strict coronavirus lockdown ended, few were out and about on Rome's central...

HONG KONG – Hong Kong's government on Saturday called U.S.-imposed sanctions against senior officials responsible for a recent crackdown on political opponents "shameless and despicable." The United States on Friday...

Brazil topped 3 million coronavirus infections as the disease flares up in parts of the country it had spared, spreading misery from the beaches of Bahia to the soybean fields...

Demonstrators stormed government buildings, lighting fires and fighting pitched street battles with security forces in the Lebanese capital on Saturday, even as the country's beleaguered prime minister called for early...

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar will arrive in Taiwan on Sunday for the highest-ranking visit by a U.S. official to the island in decades, a trip that stands...

After several weeks in which the coronavirus epidemic seemed under control, the reopening of the economy has caused a spike in cases in Havana, forcing the government to keep Cuba's...

A second bride had her wedding photo shoot interrupted by Tuesday's horrific explosion in Beirut, video shows. The bride in her wedding dress and groom in his tuxedo posed for...

A bride and groom were posing for a photo shoot in Beirut on August 4, 2020 when an explosion at the port less than a mile away, sent a shockwave...

A former top Saudi counterterrorism official has filed a federal lawsuit in the United States against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, alleging the royal tried to trap and kill...

An Air India Express flight with 190 people on board skidded off a runway and split in two while landing Friday in heavy rain in southern India. Police said at...