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Iran’s president has reiterated his hope that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden would return America’s Iran policy to where he left things as vice president four years ago, rejoining Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers

Spanish rescue services say at least seven people have died after a migrant boat carrying more than 30 people hit rocks close to a small port on the Canary Island of Lanzarote

Britain’s Treasury chief is being urged to resist calls to cut the proportion of money the government allocates to overseas aid as he prepares to unveil the damage to the public finances wrought by the coronavirus pandemic

Police said there was little damage.

The EU has committed to be “creative” in the final stages of the Brexit talks.

Britain’s Treasury chief is being urged to resist calls to cut the proportion of money the government allocates to overseas aid as he prepares to unveil the damage to the public finances wrought by the coronavirus pandemic

China is demanding that India rescind a ban on more Chinese mobile phone apps amid tension between Beijing and other governments over technology and security

The Azerbaijani army has entered the Kalbajar region, one more territory ceded by Armenian forces in a truce that ended deadly fighting over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday

India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party has approved legislation in the country’s most populous state that lays out a prison term of up to 10 years for anyone found guilty of using marriage to force someone to change religion

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country’s 16 state governors are expected to extend a partial shutdown well into December, and discuss tightening some restrictions while allowing somewhat more generous rules for the Christmas period

Mbaye Babacar Diouf's life as a migrant in Europe took a turn for the better when he was adopted in Spain at the age of 28

Thai authorities have escalated their legal battle against the students leading pro-democracy protests, charging 12 of them with violating a harsh law against defaming the monarchy

The country’s first church dedicated trans Pakistanis has opened.

Japan is using a visit by the Chinese foreign minister to protest Beijing’s increased activity and what it calls infiltration around disputed East China Sea islands

The law came after months of political unrest in the city.

A New Zealand soldier has been charged with spying and will face up to 14 years in prison if found guilty

In a colonial-era building in downtown Mexico City, dozens of feminist activists and crime victims have settled in after nearly three months of occupying the headquarters of Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission. The women said they took over the building because the government has been slow to protect or support women who have suffered abuse or help them find their missing loved ones. The activists are there in support of women like Erika Martínez as she demands justice for her 10-year-old daughter who suffered sexual abuse. Three years ago, Martínez reported her daughter’s abuser to the sexual crimes prosecutor, but the man remains free. So she decided to join the activists in their occupation of the human rights commission offices. “I decided to do it to draw more attention to my daughter’s case,” Martínez said. Martínez said that she suffered sexual abuse as a girl as well and that her mother did not defend her and did not report the abuse. Martinez's 10-year-old and...

Mexico’s former treasury and foreign relations secretary has angrily denied accusations by a lawyer for another former Cabinet secretary who claims he used embezzled government money to finance election campaigns

Syria military says suspected Israeli warplanes have struck locations south of the capital Damascus, causing only material damage

Kamila Mouckova, a Czechoslovak television anchor who informed her nation about the 1968 Soviet-led invasion by the armies of five Warsaw Pact countries, has died at age 92

Niger’s government says former President Mamadou Tandja has died

Swiss authorities are investigating as a possible terror attack the stabbing of two women in a department store in the southern city of Lugano

Flooded out Honduran and Guatemalan families stranded on rooftops in the most marginalized neighborhoods after the passage of hurricanes Eta and Iota this month have raised fears of a new wave of migration, observers across the region say

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will have to wait for a vaccine because the very first ones that roll off assembly lines are likely to be given to citizens of the country they are made in

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Alarm is spiraling over Ethiopia’s imminent tank attack on the capital of the defiant Tigray region, with a rush of warnings about protecting civilians three weeks after the war began

A Lebanese prosecutor has filed charges against current and former customs officials over the massive blast at Beirut’s port in August

The family of a Libyan man convicted of blowing up an American airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988 have begun a new posthumous appeal against the conviction, saying he was found guilty based on unreliable evidence

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has phoned Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. Navy analyst convicted of spying for Israel in the 1980s

Germany’s defense minister has rejected Turkish complaints over the search of a Turkish freighter in the Mediterranean Sea by a German frigate participating in a European mission

China has criticized Pope Francis over a passage in his new book in which he mentions suffering by China's Uighur Muslim minority group

France’s interior minister ordered an internal police investigation after officers were filmed tossing migrants out of tents while evacuating a Paris protest camp

The World Bank says the Palestinian economy is expected to contract by about 8% in 2020 as it copes with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, an already struggling economy and a political standoff with Israel

Paolo Gabriele, the Vatican butler who was convicted of stealing and leaking Pope Benedict XVI’s private papers in 2012, has died

Afghan officials say a roadside bomb attack in central Afghanistan has killed at least 13 civilians and a traffic policeman

An opposition war monitor and a Kurdish news agency say clashes between Kurdish fighters and Turkey-backed opposition gunmen in northern Syria have left at least 18 fighters dead

A German government official has warned that anti-Semitism is emerging as a common position among people protesting pandemic lockdown measures who come from widely differing political backgrounds

Germany’s foreign minister says he hopes a reset of U.S.-European relations.

Denmark finds a magical way for Kris Kringle to hear youngsters’ wishes during the pandemic.

Temperatures have soared in Western Australia.

Mesmerizing scenes as the sky over South Arm, Tasmania, is lit up.

Denmark’s biggest news agency that delivers text and photos to Danish media has been knocked offline following a hacking attack

The parents of a British teen who was killed in a crash lost a court battle with the U.K. government Tuesday over whether an American woman involved in the collision had diplomatic immunity

The European Commission says it will sign a contract for up to 160 million doses of the experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by pharmaceutical company Moderna

A court in Berlin heard Tuesday how witnesses alerted police after seeing a man dump a wig, clothes and a bicycle in a river last year, allowing officers to swiftly arrest the suspect in an alleged Russia-ordered political assassination

Europe’s aviation regulator has taken a step closer to letting the 737 Max fly.

Locals in a northern Lebanese town have called on authorities to evict all Syrians from the area after a Syrian citizen allegedly shot dead a local in a personal dispute

An Egyptian celebrity has sparked an uproar after a photo of him with an Israeli pop star was posted online

A closely watched survey shows that business confidence in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, fell for a second consecutive month in November as a resurgence of coronavirus infections led to partial shutdowns across the continent

The death toll from last week’s protests over the arrest of Ugandan opposition presidential hopeful and musician Bobi Wine has risen to 45, police say, with more than 800 people arrested