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A few weeks ago, Edmundo González Urrutia was just another grandfather visiting his daughter and grandchildren, who live abroad, enjoying two months of family time

Charred homes and cars dot the hilltop West Bank village of Duma, a searing reminder of Palestinians' vulnerability to rising violence from Israeli settlers

About 6 million Catalans are called to cast ballots in regional elections on Sunday that will surely have reverberations in Spain's national politics

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Shunned publicly by politicians and intellectuals for centuries, Vodou is transforming into a more powerful and accepted religion across Haiti, where its believers were once persecuted

Lithuania is holding a presidential election on Sunday at a time when Russian gains on the battlefield in Ukraine are fueling greater fears across all of Europe about Moscow's intentions

A top Baidu public relations executive has reportedly departed the Chinese technology company after she drew public outcry over comments that were seen as glorifying a culture of overwork

An annual survey of more than 500 European companies has found that slowing growth in China is weighing on company plans to grow their businesses in the world’s second largest economy

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a report about three cases of infections apparently linked to stem-cell treatments American patients received in Mexico

A Brazilian horse that garnered widespread attention after a TV news helicopter spotted it stranded on a rooftop has been rescued, officials say.

Air Vanuatu has filed for bankruptcy protection a day after it cancelled all international flights, stranding thousands of travelers

Akshaya Kumar of Human Rights Watch joins the show.

Egyptian officials say delegations for both sides left Cairo without a cease-fire deal and it remains unclear when negotiations will resume.

Guyana’s government says it gave permission for the U.S. military to fly two powerful F/A-18F Super Hornet jets over its capital to demonstrate the close military and other forms of cooperation between this oil-exporting South American nation and the U...

Aid workers say closing of the Rafah crossing is having a devastating impact.

The United Nations humanitarian agency on Thursday launched a $430 million appeal to avert a humanitarian disaster in drought-stricken Zimbabwe

Eden Golan advanced to the final on Saturday despite the controversy.

Chad’s military leader, Mahamat Deby Itno, has been declared the winner of this week’s presidential election, according to provisional results released Thursday

Chad's military ruler wins this week's presidential election, provisional results show, as opposition calls foul

About 24 hours after it was first spotted and with people clamoring for the rescue of a horse social media users nicknamed Caramelo, a team in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state have successfully removed Caramelo, providing a dose of hope to a beleaguere...

The administration of Mexico’s president has accused the press and volunteer searchers who look for the bodies of missing people of “necrophilia.”

Police say suspected militants bombed a girls school in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s volatile northwest, badly damaging the structure

High-level mediation talks for South Sudan have been launched in Kenya with African presidents calling for an end to a conflict that has crippled South Sudan’s economy for years

Militants are being accused of an ethnic cleansing amid a civil war, according to Human Rights Watch.

Hamas said earlier in the week that it had agreed to a cease-fire proposal, prompting celebration from both sides, but Israel soon after said the deal was not the one it had proposed.

Thousands of protesters gathered in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over his government’s decision to hand over control of border villages to Armenia’s long-time rival Azerbaijan

Israeli military spokesman says army has weapons it needs for Rafah operation

Netanyahu says Israel "will stand alone" if it has to after threatened US arms holdup

Police in Vietnam say they have arrested a senior official of the country’s labor ministry for “deliberately disclosing state secrets.”

The 737 plane skidded off the runway at Blaise Diagne at about 1 a.m. Thursday.

A leading rights group says attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces and their allied militias that killed thousands in the western region of Darfur last year constitute a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the area’s non-Arab population

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country’s army is facing “a really difficult situation” in eastern regions

A disciplinary court in Poland has lifted the immunity of a judge who fled to Russia's autocratic ally Belarus

Their interactions appear more nuanced than once believed.

The research, which was published in the journal Communications Biology, studied semi-captive elephants within the Jafuta Reserve in Zimbabwe.

A top public relations executive from Chinese technology firm Baidu has apologized after she made comments that were seen as glorifying a culture of overwork

Argentina’s biggest trade unions have mounted one of their fiercest challenges to the libertarian government of President Javier Milei

Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators are protesting in Malmo, Sweden against Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest

Puerto Rico has declared a state of emergency following heavy rains, widespread flooding and landslides in the U.S. territory

Poland’s defense minister says that since early in Russia’s war against Ukraine he has kept an emergency backpack ready

India has Canada has shared no evidence to back its allegation that the Indian government was involved in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada last year, despite the recent arrests of three Indian men in the crime

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.

Ramón Fonseca, a partner in the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the center of the “Panama Papers” scandal, has died

One major land crossing into Gaza was shut down after a Hamas rocket attack, another by an Israeli incursion

The award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings ahead of his planned trip to the Cannes film festival, his lawyer tells The Associated Press

Poland’s defense minister says his country is strengthening the metal barrier along its border with Belarus to deter illegal migration

A Spanish investigative magistrate has provisionally shelved the latest probe into an alleged case of tax fraud by pop star Shakira following recommendations by prosecutors

At least one person has been killed and four others were injured after a huge fire broke out at chemical storage tanks in an industrial area in eastern Thailand on Thursday

The head of a center-right 22-party coalition that emerged victorious in North Macedonia’s parliamentary election has fallen just short of gaining a parliamentary majority, leaving it reliant on entering a partnership with another party to form a gover...

A Japanese defense aircraft carrying eight people made an emergency landing at a commercial airport in central Japan after a cockpit window inadvertently slid open during its training flight