International News

Russia’s military has warned the Ukrainian government against trying to settle a separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine with force

The European Union has unveiled plans to improve conditions for the growing number of gig economy workers that could reclassify some as employees who must earn benefits

The British government has confirmed that an inquiry into an alleged lockdown-breaching Christmas party at the offices of Prime Minister Boris Johnson will also look at two prior gatherings involving government officials last year

China's central bank governor says financial markets can cope with the impact of a real estate developer that is struggling to avoid defaulting on $310 billion in debt

 The office of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says his wife Carrie has given birth to a baby girl

An independent and unofficial body set up by a prominent British barrister to assess evidence on China’s alleged rights abuses against the Uyghur people has concluded that the Chinese government committed genocide and crimes against humanity

According to a witness and other reports, Myanmar government troops rounded up villagers, some believed to be children, tied them up and slaughtered them

Negotiations between Iran and world powers aimed at salvaging a tattered 2015 nuclear deal have resumed in Vienna after a few days’ pause

Italy’s anti-trust authority has fined Amazon 1.13 billion euros, accusing the company of exploiting its dominant position against independent sellers on its website in violation of European Union competition rules

French President Macron is planning to present the priorities for France’s upcoming presidency of the European Union

Iraq’s National Security Advisor has tweeted that the last round of technical talks with the U.S.-led coalition has ended, signaling a new phase in US involvement in the fight against the Islamic State

Israel’s Justice Ministry says it is closing an investigation into two police officers who shot dead a Palestinian assailant as he lay on the ground

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and wife Carrie announce the birth of a baby girl, their second child

The European Union has reached a political agreement to extend cuts to costly mobile-phone roaming costs in the bloc for another decade

Four people with Denmark’s two intelligence agencies have been arrested on suspicion of “disclosing highly classified information from the intelligence services.”

For the people of the remote Moroccan village of Timahdite, nestled in North Africa's highest mountain range, heavy snowfall brings weeks, or months, of isolation. Nomadic Amazigh tribes living there rely on sheep that graze the lush forests around the village, which sits at an altitude of 1,800 meters (5,900 feet) in the Middle Atlas Mountains. But as winter sets in, they are gradually cut off from the world. The mountains, known for their red-shaded soil, give way to what seems like an endless white. The isolation remains until the road leading to the village is reopened by local authorities’ tractors. But they are often delayed. After just a week under the season's first snowfall, the pool and foosball tables that youths pass the time with are fully covered. The sheep are tucked together in a small barn for days. When the snowy weather finally recedes, families try to resume their lives. Children trek along the winding roads to reach the nearest school. While most of the men...

Hong Kong tycoon and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai and two others have been convicted for their roles in last year’s banned Tiananmen candlelight vigil, amid a crackdown on dissent in the city and Beijing’s tightening political control

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince is in Qatar on Thursday for the first time since the kingdom rallied other Arab states to end their yearslong rift and embargo on the tiny Gulf state

The worst drought in Afghanistan in decades is now entering its second year, exacerbated by climate change

A gunman has shot and killed a journalist while he was watching TV at a store in a central Philippine city, in a brazen attack in what has long been regarded as one of the world’s most dangerous places for journalists

Outrage is spreading on social media in Myanmar over images and accounts of the alleged killing and burning of 11 villagers captured by government troops in the country’s northwest

U.S. authorities have sent the first two migrants back to Mexico under the reinstated “Remain in Mexico” policy

Guatemalans kicked off the Christmas season with a centuries-old tradition that involved burning effigies of the devil and other household junk as a symbol of purification.

Archaeologists in Peru have unveiled a mummy discovered late this year that they believe could be up to 1,200 years old.

ABC News’ Matt Gutman reports on how nations in Africa are battling the pandemic as the omicron variant spreads around the globe.

The U.S. Treasury says the government of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele secretly negotiated a truce with leaders of the country’s powerful street gangs

A new report by a Norwegian watchdog group documents Chinese squid vessels using wide nets to illegally catch already overfished tuna as part of a surge in unregulated activity in the Indian Ocean

The editor of a popular Belarusian media outlet has been arrested following a raid of his apartment, the latest target in a sweeping crackdown on independent media by the Belarusian authorities

The German news agency dpa reports that the relatives of a Chechen man shot dead in Berlin two years ago are accusing the Russian government of trying to “send a message” to its political enemies with his slaying

France’s top diplomat has sought to smooth over unusually sharp tensions with Algeria with a visit to Algiers, the capital

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in 2018.

At least 23 travelers have been killed in northwest Nigeria in an attack by the armed groups blamed for killing thousands this year in Africa’s most populous country

A Sudanese medical group says the death toll from weekend tribal clashes in Darfur has climbed to at least 88 people

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Israeli police say an Israeli woman has been stabbed and lightly wounded in a tense Jerusalem neighborhood

From religious courts to spiritual care to Islamic scholarship, Muslim women have been carving out spaces for themselves and paving the way for others to follow in their footsteps

The lawyer of a freelance American journalist who was detained in Beirut last month says she has been released

Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan more than three and a half months ago amid a chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops, their fighters have changed roles, from insurgents fighting in the mountains and fields to an armed force running the country. Many Taliban foot soldiers now have new jobs: manning checkpoints on the streets and carrying out security patrols in and around Afghan cities and towns. Last month, several Taliban fighters posed for portrait photographs for The Associated Press on nighttime patrols and at checkpoints in the western city of Herat. One of them, 21-year-old Ahmad Wali, was on patrol in the village of Kamar Kalagh, north of Herat. A student in an Islamic religious school known as a madrassa, he said he joined the Taliban because he believed in the teachings of the Quran and was against the American presence in his country and against the previous Afghan government, which was widely criticized for corruption. Now, he said, he is very busy with his...

Trying to defuse large protests by environmentalists, Serbia’s populist government has decided to suspend two key laws that would help mining giant Rio Tinto launch a lithium mine in western Serbia

A junior finance minister has quit the French government after being convicted of failing to declare all his wealth and income

The prime minister denies that a party took place last December.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to the general.

French rescuers have retrieved two more bodies from the remains of an apartment building in southern France that collapsed in a suspected gas explosion

U.S. Treasury: El Salvador government secretly negotiated a truce with leaders of the country’s powerful street gangs

A recently revealed identification card shows that the German-born father of Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast belonged to  Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party

“There is no hope here."

For millions of Guatemalan families hand-made corn tortillas are indispensable with every meal, but many of those tortillas pass through the hands of girls and young women trapped in poverty

Spectacular drone footage shows the erupting volcano in La Palma, Spain, spitting molten "lava bombs," which pepper the mountainside.

Australia's foreign minister has started a European tour in Athens

Saudi Arabia's crown prince is visiting Gulf Arab states on a high-profile tour as rival Iran restarts nuclear talks with world powers