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Pope Francis is lamenting centuries of hostility and prejudice that have divided Catholics and Orthodox

A Chinese real estate developer has warned it might not be able to pay a $400 million bond due next week, adding to financial strain in an industry that is struggling to avoid defaults on billions of dollars of debt

French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting the energy-rich Persian Gulf, hoping to seal a major arms sale after the fall’s Australian submarine deal debacle and to strengthen France’s regional role

Turkey’s beleaguered currency has been plunging to all-time lows against the U.S. dollar and the euro in recent months as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presses ahead with a widely criticized effort to cut interest rates despite surging consumer prices

Lebanon’s information minister says he will announce his resignation in a bid to ease an unprecedented diplomatic crisis with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries

Chinese ride-hailing service Didi Global Inc. says it will pull out of the New York Stock Exchange and shift its listing to Hong Kong as the ruling Communist Party tightens control over tech industries

Iraqi Kurds seem to make up the majority of Middle Eastern migrants seeking to move to Europe these days

Australia's opposition leader says the nation would set a more ambitious target of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 43% by the end of the decade if the government changes at elections early next year

A Libyan court has ruled that a son of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi can compete in next month's presidential elections

Tel Aviv tops the ranks for the highest cost of living in a new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

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A drone sweeps over a sizzling lava stream from the Cumbre Vieja volcano as its activity shows no sign of stopping.

ABC News’ Ines de La Cuetara reports from Munich after a strict mandate was put in effect, banning unvaccinated people from bars, restaurants and other places.

China's air regulator has cleared the Boeing 737 Max to return to flying with technical upgrades more than two years after the plane was grounded worldwide following two fatal crashes

The Mexican government has threatened legal action over provisions of U.S. President Joe Biden's Build Back Better framework that would give subsidies of up to $12,500 for purchases of union-made, American-made electric vehicles

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Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg has announced he is stepping down just two months after taking over from predecessor Sebastian Kurz

Pope Francis is urging Greek Cypriots and breakaway Turkish Cypriots to resume talks on reunifying the Mediterranean island nation

The lay head of a new Portuguese Catholic Church committee on child sex abuse is urging victims to come forward but stresses his group’s task is to study what has happened, not launch formal investigations

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned officials to strictly observe industrial safety in the wake of last week’s coal mine explosion that killed 51

The United States, European Union, Britain and Canada have imposed simultaneous sanctions on dozens of officials, organizations and companies in Belarus

Israel says it's halting the use of a controversial phone tracking technology to trace possible cases of the new coronavirus variant

Egypt has concluded its second international weapons fair

The Russian military has deployed coastal defense missile systems near the Kuril Islands, a Pacific chain also claimed by Japan

A senior international aid official says Afghanistan is being hit by multiple crises that are “progressively getting worse,” with drought, economic collapse and displacement all pushing the population into catastrophic hunger

Residents of Tel Aviv have for years complained of how expensive it is.

The Kremlin has voiced concern about a possible escalation of fighting in eastern Ukraine's separatist conflict as the U.S. issued a strong warning to Russia to stay away from Ukraine

Pope Francis has accepted the archbishop of Paris' resignation after he admitted to an “ambiguous” relationship with a woman in 2012

The British and Irish governments are expressing optimism that a thorny spat between the U.K. and the European Union over Northern Ireland trade can be resolved

An adorable pygmy hippo explores her new surroundings and spends quality time with mom after the zoo announces her birth.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has appointed a new treasury and finance minister after the previous one stepped down as the country's currency has tumbled to record lows

Syria's news agency says 10 people have been killed and one injured after an attack on a bus carrying workers in an oil field in eastern Syria

Federal officials say a mayor in Puerto Rico accused of awarding 50 contracts worth nearly $10 million to an asphalt company has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery and receive kickbacks

Czech travel writer Miroslav Zikmund has died at age 102

Laos, an isolated, mountainous nation of 7 million people wedged between China, Vietnam and Thailand, is opening a $5.9 billion railway its leaders hope will energize its economy, but it may pile on dangerously high debt

The top adviser to the European Union’s highest court says the principle of linking the bloc’s budget disbursements to respect for rule of law is compatible with the bloc’s laws and that a challenge by Hungary and Poland should be dismissed

The European Union has fined four major banks a combined $390 million for colluding in a foreign exchange spot trading cartel that allowed them to beat inherent risks in currency deals

Archbishop of Paris who admitted to ‘ambiguous’ relationship with a woman says Pope Francis has accepted his resignation

Authorities say 17 Turkish nationals received permission to enter Greece and apply for asylum there after they crossed the border from Turkey

Indian Health Ministry confirms first cases of omicron coronavirus variant in 2 people from southern Karnataka state

Cambodia’s long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen has explicitly declared support to have his eldest son, army commander Hun Manet, succeed him as the nation’s leader

People are living on shelves in the packing warehouse.

Human Rights Watch says the killing of at least 65 protesters in Myanmar’s biggest city on March 14 this year was planned and premeditated

Rights groups say Israel failed to investigate shootings that killed more than 200 Palestinians and wounded thousands at violent protests along the Gaza frontier in 2018 and 2019

Lebanese have been losing business opportunities and contracts in recent weeks as a result of a diplomatic crisis between their government and Saudi Arabia

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says China’s pursuit of hypersonic weapons “increases tensions in the region”

A 69-year-old man drifted in choppy waters for nearly a day while clinging to the bottom of his capsized boat until he was saved by the coast guard

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is holding a massive rally in Mexico City to mark the mid-way point in his six-year term, amid polls showing about two-thirds of Mexicans approve of his administration

A gang has rammed vehicles into a prison in central Mexico and escaped with nine inmates

Fiji greeted its first tourists in some 20 months since the COVID-19 pandemic began.