Foreign Affairs

Flying is often an afterthought when visiting Singapore's Changi Airport. With its butterfly and orchid gardens, custom-made airport fragrance and glass-domed mall housing the world's tallest indoor waterfall, the experience...

Their accounts are similar. The girls and women describe meeting the young man — a former student at Egypt's most elite university — in person and online, followed by deceit,...

Countries in Eastern Europe are facing rising waves of coronavirus infections, leading to riots in Serbia, mandatory face masks in Croatia and travel bans or quarantines imposed by Hungary. The...

Voters in Poland cast ballots Sunday in the country's razor blade-close presidential runoff between the conservative, populist incumbent and the liberal, pro-Europe mayor of Warsaw in a battle that reflects...

To slow the spread of the coronavirus, governments issued lockdowns to keep people at home. They curtailed activities that affected services like trash collection. They tried to shield hospitals from...

Iranian investigators are blaming a misaligned missile battery and miscommunication between soldiers and their commanders for the Revolutionary Guard shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner in January, killing 176 people. The...

The number of coronavirus cases in Indonesia exceeded 75,000 as infections in the two largest hotspots continued to accelerate after the government eased physical-distancing curbs more than a month ago....

When a large coronavirus cluster was rumored to have begun among gay men partying in Seoul's most cosmopolitan nightlife district, city health officials opted for anonymity. Anonymous testing was provided...

President Andrzej Duda came out on top by a razor-thin margin in Poland's presidential runoff election, according to an exit poll. If confirmed by official results, Sunday's runoff ballot will...

South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa read the riot act to those violating rules aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus and announced new measures, including reintroducing a ban on...

In Spain's first return to its strict lockdown since June's easing of coronavirus restrictions, officials in the city of Lleida and seven surrounding municipalities announced new quarantine measures on Sunday...

VIENNA – The number of new coronavirus infections per day has hit an all-time high, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday, noting a global jump in 230,000 cases...

After months in which Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro downplayed COVID-19 by flouting social distancing recommendations and mostly shunning masks, both coronavirus precautions became part of his cloistered life this week...

Amitabh Bachchan has tested positive for the coronavirus and is hospitalized in Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital, the Bollywood superstar announced Saturday on Twitter. Bachchan, 77, said in a...

The wife of a French bus driver who was beaten to death after he asked four passengers to wear face masks aboard his vehicle called Saturday for “exemplary punishment” for...

Statues, street names, plazas and even the body of conquistador Juan Ponce de León himself: Spain left a nearly indelible legacy in Puerto Rico that attracts hordes of tourists every...

The interim secretary general of the World Council of Churches has written to Turkey's president expressing his “grief and dismay” over Turkey's decision to change the status of Istanbul's landmark...

Brooklyn Beckham, son of retired soccer superstar David Beckham and fashion designer Victoria Beckham, and American actress Nicola Peltz have announced they're engaged. Beckham and Peltz both posted the news...

Five people are dead and more than 40 have been arrested after an early-morning hostage situation at a long-troubled church near Johannesburg, police in South Africa said Saturday. A statement...

Bahrudin Salihovic always knew his father had perished 25 years ago in the storm of violence unleashed after Serb forces overran the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica in the final...

South Africa's confirmed coronavirus cases have doubled in just two weeks to a quarter-million, and India on Saturday saw its biggest daily spike as its infections passed 800,000. The surging...

Serbian police have detained 71 people after clashes during the fourth night of anti-government protests that were initially sparked by the announcement of a new coronavirus lockdown, a senior police...

Dozens of U.S. Marines have been infected with the coronavirus at two bases on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa in what is feared to be a massive outbreak, Okinawan...

Voters in Poland on Sunday will decide a tight runoff election between populist incumbent President Andrzej Duda and his liberal pro-European Union challenger, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski. Recent opinion polls...

Bosnia is marking the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the only crime in Europe since World War II that has been declared a genocide, with only a small number...

When China passed its new Hong Kong security law on June 30, officials said it would affect only "extremely few criminals." Less than two weeks later, it's clear Beijing is...

The 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide on Saturday was marked under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, which not only forced changes to the ceremony but also once again...

TUEBINGEN, Germany – Roughly 4,000 volunteers have registered as subjects for a coronavirus vaccination study at the University Hospital in Tuebingen. "It's a real luxury situation, unlike usual clinical trials,"...

The area in front of the Serbian parliament resembled a war zone on three of four nights of protests against Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic this week, but Saturday evening was...

The UN Security Council passed a resolution on Saturday securing continuing humanitarian aid for war-torn Syria. The German-Belgian resolution agreed on provided for only one border crossing to Syria to...

Almost 230,000 people voted on Saturday in primaries held by Hong Kong's pro-democracy opposition parties, exceeding expectations for the total turnout at the two-day event, Radio Television Hong Kong reported,...

Former Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami announced on Friday that he tested positive for the COVID-19, becoming the third high-ranking official of the Nicolás Maduro regime who has contracted...

On a visit to Miami on Friday, President Donald Trump portrayed himself as tough on drugs and a champion of Venezuelans, at a time when U.S. policy towards the troubled...

The president of Turkey on Friday formally reconverted Istanbul's sixth-century Hagia Sophia into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship, hours after a high court annulled a 1934...

The Dutch government is taking Russia to the European Court of Human Rights for its alleged role in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine six...

A U.K. judge has sentenced a man to four years for attempting to steal one of the original copies of the the Magna Carta from Salisbury Cathedral in England. Mark...

President Donald Trump's visit to Doral Friday is a “photo-op and a distraction from his failures” in responding to the coronavirus pandemic, former Vice President Joe Biden said in a...

World War II-era aircraft flew over the late singer Vera Lynn's village in southeastern England on Friday, offering a final tribute to the “Forces' Sweetheart” who buoyed the morale of...

Haitian death squad leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, who was jailed after his deportation to Haiti by the Trump administration nearly three weeks ago, could soon find himself a free man....

The coronavirus storm has arrived in South Africa, but in the overflowing COVID-19 wards the sound is less of a roar than a rasp. Oxygen is already low in hospitals...