The presidents of Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda will travel to Washington next week to sign a peace deal and meet with President Donald Trump, three sources told Reuters, as the U.S. tries to broker peace in war-hit eastern Congo and attract Western mining investments to the region.
ISTANBUL – It’s been 971 years since the great rift that led to centuries of rivalry between the Catholic Church in Rome and the Eastern Orthodox Church in Constantinople, now Istanbul.
After spending nine months in an Israeli prison without trial, 16-year-old Mohammed Zaber Ibrahim, a Palestinian American teenager from Florida, was released on Thursday. Videos of his reunion with family members showed long, tearful hugs.
Amid a buildup of U.S. military forces near Venezuela and strikes on alleged drug boats, President Donald Trump told U.S. troops on Thanksgiving that the military operation will soon include strikes on land.
BEIRUT – The head of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said on Friday it retained the right to respond to Israel’s killing of its top military commander days ago and left open the possibility of a new conflict with Israel.
Ukrainian forces say they have once again attacked Rosneft PJSC’s Saratov oil refinery in Russia’s Volga region as the U.S. pushes for a resolution to the Kremlin’s nearly four-year-old invasion of Ukraine.
Swiss politicians have urged the country’s top prosecutor to open a criminal investigation into the gifting of a Rolex table clock and an engraved gold bar to U.S. President Donald Trump by business executives shortly before he agreed to cut tariffs on the country’s exports.
CASTROP-RAUXEL, Germany — Chickens are darting across the grounds of this German correctional facility. They can roam freely but are also fenced in, being cared for and nurtured by several men who are incarcerated here at the open prison in North Rhine Westphalia. The prisoners' mission is to save these chickens' lives. They nurse young sick poultry that were marked for the slaughterhouse. ...
KYIV – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s powerful chief of staff Andriy Yermak, a close ally who has headed Ukraine’s negotiation team at fraught U.S.-backed peace talks, quit on Friday, hours after anti-corruption agents searched his home.
Australia passed a landmark bill to overhaul the nation’s environmental laws after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s government struck a deal with the left-wing minority Greens party. Both houses of the country’s parliament passed the legislation, Environment Minister Murray Watt said in Canberra. It amends the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, a framework widely ...
HONG KONG – Hong Kong fire authorities said they expected to wrap up search and rescue operations after the city's worst fire in nearly 80 years tore through a massive apartment complex on Friday, killing at least 94 people and leaving scores more missing.
Flood rescue teams in Thailand readied drones to deliver aid and helicopters dropped supplies to people marooned on rooftops on Thursday, as the death toll from its worst floods in years rose and the number killed by a cyclone in Indonesia climbed to 61.
Pope Leo lamented during his first trip outside Italy as Catholic leader on Thursday that the world was seeing an unusual number of bloody conflicts, and warned that a third world war was being "fought piecemeal" with humanity's future at risk.
Hong Kong police arrested the bosses of a construction company on suspicion of manslaughter on Thursday over the city's worst fire in nearly 80 years, which killed at least 83 people with scores more listed as missing.
U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff will lead a delegation for talks in Russia next week, a Kremlin official said, as Donald Trump pushes for a deal to end the war in Ukraine.
At least 36 people were killed and 279 were missing on Wednesday after Hong Kong's deadliest fire in three decades ripped through high-rise residential towers sheathed in flammable bamboo scaffolding, authorities said.
Taiwan will introduce a $40-billion supplementary defense budget to underscore its determination to defend itself in the face of a rising threat from China, President Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday.
A Brazilian Supreme Court judge ordered Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving his 27-year sentence behind bars, deepening a dramatic downfall for the former president who was convicted of plotting a coup after his 2022 election defeat. Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Bolsonaro to start the sentence Tuesday, days after his weekend arrest for tampering with a court-mandated ankle monitor. He will ...
Momentum is picking up for the new U.S.-led peace deal for Ukraine, with progress made over the weekend in Geneva and new meetings involving the United States, Russian and Ukrainian delegations in the United Arab Emirates. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is even expected to travel to the United States in the coming days to meet with President Donald Trump on the deal.
On the face of it, the United States appears closer than ever to mounting a military campaign to remove President Nicolás Maduro from power in Venezuela.
