A war monitor and an activist group say clashes broke out in the Syrian capital between local gunmen belonging to the minority Druze sect and pro-government fighters. The fighting early Tuesday in …
The blackout that engulfed the Iberian Peninsula on Monday was chaotic and stressful for many. But it had a silver lining. People were forced away from their screens and into the “real” world, …
The World Food Program and the United Nations refugee agency will slash jobs because of funding cuts, mainly from the United States. The WFP is expected to cut up to 30% of its staff. The head of the …
The European Union’s enlargement commissioner has urged Serbia’s new government to push forward democratic reforms needed for membership in the bloc, saying that the Balkan nation’s protesting …
The South American country of Guyana has imposed an overnight curfew following violent clashes between police and protesters. The demonstrators accuse authorities of mishandling the investigation …
Police say improvised explosive devices detonated on a road in northeastern Nigeria killed at least 26 people in several vehicles, including women and children. An Islamic State group affiliate in …
Officials in Spain and Portugal are racing to restore electricity after a huge power outage that grounded flights, paralyzed metro systems, disrupted mobile communications and shut down ATMs, …
The blackout that paralyzed the Iberian Peninsula had an especially fierce impact on trains that run across Spain. Travelers were stranded on Monday for hours — or longer — all across the …
It could very well be the biggest sporting event ever held inside the walls of the Vatican. The Giro d’Italia will pay homage to the late Pope Francis by passing through the Vatican gardens behind …
Amnesty International has criticized Indonesia’s government, saying it suppresses free speech with crackdowns on public protests, targets journalists and rights activists and uses spyware against …
A man who worked for a prominent German far-right lawmaker in the European Parliament has been charged with spying for China. The office of the federal prosecutor announced the charges Tuesday. Jian …
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have witnessed the formal exchange of a dozen cooperation agreements including on defense. It was part of efforts to …
A court has been told that the famous Sycamore Gap tree was cut down in an “act of deliberate and mindless criminal damage.” The tree that once sat symmetrically between two hills along …
Three Chinese astronauts’ return to Earth has been postponed owing to weather conditions. The astronauts, Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze, were originally due to land Tuesday in Dongfeng, …
Four former Hong Kong lawmakers have been released after spending more than four years in prison for their conviction under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement. …
Cardinals have decided the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis will begin May 7. The conclave is a closed-door meeting of the cardinal electors to choose the new pope in the Sistine Chapel. …
President Donald Trump is pushing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to cede territory occupied by Russia to Moscow to bring about an end to the fighting in Ukraine. Zelenskyy has pushed back, …
Colombia's capital has South America’s only supervised room for drug use, aimed at reducing harm and preventing overdoses and now a topic of the International Conference on Harm Reduction, which …
They’d watched overnight as the bombardments grew closer, and observed through binoculars as the final U.S. Marines piled into a helicopter from the roof of the embassy to be whisked away. So when …
A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered the federal government to seize private properties when owners are found responsible for illegal wildfires or deforestation. The ruling also directed …