Rain has finally fallen in Iran's capital after months of drought. The country is experiencing its driest autumn in over 50 years. Iran's president has warned that the government may need to move out …

EU enlargement chief Marta Kos says Ukraine’s EU membership is “inevitable” and has expressed confidence that Hungary will not block the country’s accession, even as Budapest objects to …

Iceland's national broadcaster has announced it will boycott next year's Eurovision Song Contest due to Israel's participation. This decision follows similar moves by Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland …

Denmark has reached a deal to compensate thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland over cases of forcible contraception carried out by health authorities over decades starting in the …

Israel has approved the construction of 764 houses in three Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. The decision is likely to further stoke tensions as a watchdog group accused the Israeli …

Compas, a beloved Haitian music and dance genre inspired by merengue and infused with percussion, has made UNESCO’s cultural heritage list. The syncopated rhythm, created in the 1950s, wafts from …

Brazil's lower house of Congress has approved a bill that could reduce former President Jair Bolsonaro's prison time. Bolsonaro is currently serving a 27-year sentence for attempting a coup. …

Egypt and Iran, two Middle East nations that target gays and lesbians, have complained to FIFA over the scheduling of a World Cup soccer match in Seattle that’s expected to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride. …

Sophie Kinsella, author of the million-selling ‘Shopaholic’ novels, has died at 55.

Gunmen have killed three members of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan. A report by the official IRNA news agency says the Guard’s members were …

The head of the International Monetary Fund has urged China to fix its economic imbalances, echoing longstanding calls for the world's second-largest economy to rely more on domestic spending and …

Dozens of people have been killed in a drone strike against Sudan’s largest oil processing facility carried out by the Sudanese Armed Forces. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces says the oil …

Scottish artist Nnena Kalu has won the Turner Prize for her vivid abstract drawings and sculptures. She is the first artist with a learning disability to receive Britain's most famous visual art …

Chinese gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings has withdrawn from Paramount Skydance Corp.'s bid to buy Warner Bros Discovery. A revised filing by Paramount with the U.S. Securities and …

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has welcomed a groundbreaking social media ban for children under 16 as families taking back power from tech giants. The ban took effect on Wednesday. …

South Korea will require advertisers to label their ads made with artificial intelligence technologies from next year as it seeks to curb a surge of deceptive promotions featuring fabricated experts …

Head of Nobel Institute says Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado will not attend awards ceremony in Oslo.

The United States ambassador to Turkey says the close relationship between U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has brought their countries closer to resolving …

A woman from Syria's Alawite minority has spoken about her harrowing experience of being kidnapped and raped by gunmen. Since the fall of former Syrian president Bashar Assad a year ago, dozens of …

Former Nepali ministers, officials and a Chinese company have been charged with corruption in a case alleging financial irregularities inflated an airport's construction costs by more than $74 …