Foreign Affairs

German police have arrested one of two fugitive twins wanted in connection with the spectacular theft of 18th-century jewels from a Dresden museum last year A spokesman for Dresden police,...

The torch relay for the postponed Tokyo Olympics is to start in just over three months, and it faces the same questions as the Olympics about being held safely during...

Was it real? It's all been erased so completely, so much blood has been shed and destruction wreaked over the past decade. The idea that there was a moment when...

Australian actor Craig McLachlan was cleared in court Tuesday of allegations he indecently assaulted his stage co-stars in 2014. The 55-year-old had been charged with seven counts of indecent assault...

KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine wants the Chernobyl power plant, destroyed by one of history's worst nuclear disasters, to be listed as a world heritage site by the United Nations' cultural...

Thousands of people gathered in the Chilean region of La Araucanía on Monday to witness a solar eclipse, rejoicing in the rare experience even though visibility was limited because of...

The labels on the 38 boxes in Cincinnati said they contained made-in-the-USA 3M Disposable Respirators Model 8210 N95 masks, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. Destination of the 6,080 masks,...

The labels on the 38 boxes in Cincinnati said they contained made-in-the-USA 3M Disposable Respirators Model 8210 N95 masks, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. Destination of the 6,080 masks,...

Economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has set back decades of progress against the most severe forms of malnutrition and is likely to kill 168,000 children before any global recovery...

In a Dec. 13 story about the death of spy novelist John le Carré, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that television versions of “Smiley's People” and “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”...

Anxiety is growing among the parents of hundreds of students who remain missing three days after gunmen attacked their school in Katsina State in northern Nigeria. More than 300 students...

London's six Premier League clubs won't be allowed supporters at games again after the British capital was placed under the toughest level of coronavirus restrictions due to a spike in...

Justin Bieber has teamed up with a choir of London medical staff to record a special charity Christmas single. The choir, made up of nurses, doctors and other health care...

Two Russians on Monday were convicted of permanently disabling a British soccer supporter in southern France during the UEFA Euro 2016 tournament. Spartak Moscow fan Pavel Kosov was sentenced to...

Two Russians on Monday were convicted of permanently disabling a British soccer supporter in southern France during the UEFA Euro 2016 tournament. Spartak Moscow fan Pavel Kosov was sentenced to...

The Maduro regime in Venezuela wants her extradited to face justice for a failed coup hatched in South Florida. The Colombian government accuses her of being in cahoots with narco...

The plot to overthrow Nicolás Maduro and how Yacsy Alexandra Álvarez allegedly fits in. … Click to Continue »

In five videos said to have been made in late June, the translator and go-between for plotters of the failed coup in Venezuela expresses fears and names names. … Click...

The year of the virus. From sports to festivals, natural disasters to protests, hardly a moment of 2020 captured by the photojournalists of The Associated Press in Asia was free...

The year of the virus. From sports to festivals, natural disasters to protests, hardly a moment of 2020 captured by the photojournalists of The Associated Press in Asia was free...

The growing availability of coronavirus vaccines is a “ray of hope” for hosting the Olympics next summer, Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike said Monday as Japan struggles with a new surge...

The German government called on citizens Monday to forgo Christmas shopping, two days before the country heads into a hard lockdown that will shut most stores, tighten social distancing rules...

Night began to fall in Rio de Janeiro's Pedra Branca state park as four Brazilian scientists switched on their flashlights to traipse along a narrow trail of mud through dense...

Tens of thousands of protesting Indian farmers have called for a national strike on Monday, the second in a week, to press for the quashing of three new laws on...

Tens of thousands of protesting Indian farmers have called for a national strike on Monday, the second in a week, to press for the quashing of three new laws on...

Tens of thousands of protesting Indian farmers have called for a national strike on Monday, the second in a week, to press for the quashing of three new laws on...

John le Carre, a spy turned novelist who became the preeminent writer of espionage fiction in English, has died at age 89. Le Carre's literary agency, Curtis Brown, said Sunday...

John le Carre, a spy turned novelist who became the preeminent writer of espionage fiction in English, has died at age 89. Le Carre's literary agency, Curtis Brown, said Sunday...

John le Carre, a spy turned novelist who became the preeminent writer of espionage fiction in English, has died at age 89. Le Carre's literary agency, Curtis Brown, said Sunday...

Italy on Sunday eclipsed Britain to become the nation with the worst official coronavirus death toll in Europe. Italy, where the continent's pandemic began, registered 484 COVID-19 deaths in one...

Italy on Sunday eclipsed Britain to become the nation with the worst official coronavirus death toll in Europe. Italy, where the continent's pandemic began, registered 484 COVID-19 deaths in one...

Hundreds of Nigerian students are missing after gunmen attacked a secondary school in the country's northwestern Katsina state, police have confirmed. The Government Science Secondary School in Kankara was attacked...

Before dawn on Dec. 1, Leonardo de Carvalho Leal prepared to leave his family behind in the Brazilian city of Ponta Grossa, in Parana state. His mother overwhelmed him with...

Wearing full-body protective gear, Dr. Luigi Cavanna visits his patients in their homes in small towns and rural areas in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. The peaceful countryside setting...

The Famed Arecibo Observatory survived, nearly unscathed, Hurricane Maria's lashing of Puerto Rico. … Click to Continue »

The U.S. Navy announced Saturday that it has called off search and rescue efforts for a 20-year-old sailor who reportedly fell overboard earlier this week from the USS Theodore Roosevelt,...

Armenian officials and Azerbaijan on Saturday accused each other of breaching a peace deal that ended six weeks of fierce fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, and Azerbaijan's leader threatened to crush Armenian...

Public criticism of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse's administration by the international community continues. Representatives of the international community in Haiti, known as the Core Group, are expressing concerns about two...

For the first time in decades, Mexico's Roman Catholics were forced on Saturday to abandon what many consider the world's largest religious pilgrimage, in which millions visit Mexico City's Basilica...

Paris police took dozens of people into custody at what quickly became another tense and sometimes ill-tempered demonstration in the French capital on Saturday against a proposed security law. Police...