Chinese Premier Li Qiang is making a two-day visit to the southern African nation of Zambia that will focus on the $1.4 billion refurbishment of a Cold War-era railway line to further improve …

Poland's foreign minister has announced the closure of the last Russian consulate in the country. This decision comes after authorities accused two Ukrainian citizens working for Moscow of blowing up …

Long-haul carrier Emirates says it has ordered 8 Airbus A350-900 aircraft at a list price of $3.4 billion.

The sentence to death against Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for crimes against humanity is seen as a chance for national healing after the violent uprising last year that killed …

Firefighters are battling a fire that has burned through a neighborhood in southwestern Japan and forced more than 170 people to evacuate. It started Tuesday evening and was still out of control …

State media and the health ministry in Lebanon say that an Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon has killed 11 people and wounded four. State-run National News Agency …

Alice and Ellen Kessler, twin dancers and singers who launched their international career in the 1950s and performed with Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra and Harry Belafonte, have died, police in Germany …

One of the 25 schoolgirls abducted from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria’s Kebbi state has escaped and returned home. The school principal reported the information about the girl to The …

World leaders with the Group of 20 rich and developing nations will meet this weekend in Johannesburg for the bloc’s first summit in Africa. Host South Africa wants to prioritize issues affecting …

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is calling on El Salvador to protect the rights of three Salvadoran men deported by the United States. The commission says the men have been held without …

Bangladesh’s capital and major cities are calm despite a call for a nationwide shutdown by supporters of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. A special tribunal sentenced Hasina and former Home …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has praised the U.N.'s adoption of the Trump administration’s plan for Gaza. The resolution, passed by the U.N. Security Council on Monday, authorizes an …

Pope Leo XIV has strongly backed U.S. bishops who condemned the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. He urged the American people to listen to them and treat migrants humanely. As he left …

A convicted murderer in Australia is challenging a state's ban on Vegemite in prisons, claiming that denying him the polarizing spread violates his human rights. Andre McKechnie has taken his case to …

Host country Brazil’s tactful guidance as host of the U.N. climate conference is raising hopes for ambitious action on fighting global warming as speeches continue from the high-level ministers in …

Most of Haiti is celebrating the anniversary of a historic battle that helped the country become the world’s first Black republic, but a town that was key in that struggle is busy fighting for its …

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has firmly rejected the possibility of U.S. intervention against drug cartels a day after President Donald Trump again said he would support it. She stated on …

Rapper Nicki Minaj says she wants to shine a spotlight on “the deadly threat” to Christians in Nigeria. She spoke Tuesday at a United Nations event organized by the United States. President …

Asian shares have tumbled, with benchmarks in Tokyo and Seoul sinking more than 3%, after Nvidia and other artificial-intelligence-related shares pulled U.S. stocks lower. On Monday, the S&P 500 lost …

Brazilian authorities have raged against comments by Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz in which he appeared to look down on Belem, a city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest. It's where the …