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KATHMANDU, Nepal – Nepal’s former prime minister, K.P. Sharma Oli, was arrested on Saturday as police investigate whether he was negligent in failing to prevent dozens of deaths during Gen Z anti-corruption protests last September, officials said.

MIAMI – Donald Trump said on Friday the United States does not "have to be there for NATO," comments that again raised questions ​about the U.S. president's commitment to the mutual defense provisions at the center of the transatlantic alliance.

President Donald Trump has thrown out the blueprint for the wartime American presidency — and it has hindered his management of the Iran conflict, former officials and analysts said.

MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities said on Friday they have potentially identified more than 40,000 people listed as disappeared who may be alive, by cross-referencing official databases such as tax records and marriage registries.

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with intensified military action and said he’s unsure whether a diplomatic agreement can be reached, with the two sides at loggerheads on how to end the near monthlong war. Iran had “better get serious soon, before it is too late, because once that happens, there is NO TURNING BACK, and it won’t be pretty!” Trump posted on social media ...

Transgender women athletes will be excluded from the Olympics beginning with the 2028 Los Angeles Games after the International Olympic Committee implemented a new eligibility policy on Thursday.

The Pentagon is considering whether to divert weapons intended for Ukraine to the Middle East as the war in Iran depletes some of the U.S. military’s most critical munitions, according to three people familiar with the matter.

A Venezuelan man who vanished into the U.S. immigration system last year only to reemerge in one of Central America’s most notorious prisons has turned to the courts, accusing the U.S. government of deliberately abusing its power and violating his rights.

A Russian oil tanker carrying hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude is steadily approaching Cuba, setting up a high-stakes test of Washington’s willingness to enforce its tightening energy embargo on the island as it grapples with a deepening fuel crisis.

The U.S. has made its offer of security guarantees needed for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country's eastern region of Donbas to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters in an interview.

President Donald Trump will hit Iran harder if Tehran fails to accept that the country has been "defeated militarily," White House press secretary Karoline ​Leavitt said on Wednesday.

Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, announced Tuesday that her government will send a diplomatic delegation to Washington later this week to launch a new phase of political and diplomatic dialogue with the United States, as the Trump administration moves to facilitate the reopening of the Latin American nation’s diplomatic facilities on U.S. soil. Speaking during a meeting with ...

In typical times, Nowruz is a much-anticipated moment of hope across Iran. Preparations for the Persian New Year begin days in advance, with people spring-cleaning their home — “shaking the house,” as the expression goes — or buying new clothes and furniture.

It’s been half a century since the Vietnam War, when journalists had almost unrestricted access to the battlefield. In the years since the fall of Saigon ended that first conflict of the television age, restrictions on press freedom have grown.

Iran denied President Donald Trump's claims Monday that negotiations were underway toward ending the Middle East war, with the speaker of Iran's parliament accusing the U.S. leader of issuing false statements to calm rattled energy markets.

A Colombian Air Force plane carrying 125 people crashed just after takeoff deep in the country's southern Amazon region on Monday, the air force said, and military sources said 71 people on board were rescued.

Fatima Sajjadi crossed the Iran-Afghanistan border last week after a two-day journey, still coughing from the smoke of burning oil in Tehran. A 26-year-old Afghan graduate student in the southern Iranian city of Bushehr, Sajjadi initially resisted going home when the war in Iran started, in part, she said, because of the many restrictions on women imposed by the Taliban government.