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Iran's foreign minister vows harsher retaliation if Israel strikes Iran in response to Tuesday's missile barrage

European Union countries have voted to impose duties on imports of electric vehicles from China, as talks continue between Brussels and Beijing to end the standoff before an end-of-October deadline

Relatives say an Israeli airstrike on a West Bank cafe that the military said targeted Palestinian militants also killed a family of four, including two young children

A technical problem at Germany’s air traffic control agency has caused disruptions, with some flights canceled at Frankfurt Airport, the country’s biggest

Two former Metropolitan Police officers in London have been handed their jobs back and will receive back pay after winning an appeal against a ruling that they lied over the stop and search of two Black athletes

Supporters and opponents of Kenya’s deputy president have clashed at public forums over an impeachment motion against him, which was introduced in parliament by the ruling alliance this week

Google says it will stop linking to New Zealand news content and will reverse its support of local media outlets if the government passes a law forcing tech companies to pay for articles displayed on their platforms

Iran’s supreme leader has praised the country’s recent missile strike on Israel and said it is ready to do it again if necessary

A Malaysian billionaire hotelier who brought Formula One to Singapore has been charged for allegedly obstructing justice and abetting wrongdoings by a former Cabinet minister who was imprisoned a day earlier in a rare graft case

At least 14 people killed in floods in Bosnia-Herzegovina, local official says

Congolese authorities have launched investigations into two recent deadly boat accidents, including the capsizing of an overcrowded boat on Lake Kivu on Thursday which killed at least 78 people

Police in Thailand say they have filed negligence charges against a bus operator in connection with a bus fire that killed 23 young students and teachers earlier this week, as investigators suggested a gas leak may have caused the blaze

The European Union’s top court says fisheries and agriculture agreements reached between the bloc and Morocco five years ago failed to include consultations with the people of Western Sahara

Authorities say a beluga whale that lived off Norway’s coast and whose harness ignited speculation that it was a Russian spy, was not shot to death as claimed by animal rights groups but died of a bacterial infection

Pakistani authorities have placed shipping containers on key roads and highways leading to the capital and suspended cellphone service in Islamabad in an attempt to prevent supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan from holding a rally ...

Hungary's prime minister says the European Union risks entering an “economic cold war” with China, and is pledging to vote against an EU plan to impose higher tariffs on the import of Chinese electric vehicles

A severe rainstorm struck Bosnia overnight Friday, killing at least 14 people and flooding several towns and villages in central and southern parts of the country

A lawmaker representing Greenland in Denmark’s Parliament was asked to leave the podium of the assembly because she refused to translate her speech into Danish

Wars, a refugee crisis, famine, and artificial intelligence could all be recognized with Nobel Prizes

Nearly one quarter of Lebanese have fled their homes, Najib Mikati said.

An Israeli airstrike has cut a main highway linking Lebanon with Syria

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is visiting Bangladesh to meet with interim leader Muhammad Yunus, who took over in August after the former prime minister fled during a mass uprising

Israel has carried out a series of massive airstrikes overnight in the southern suburbs of Beirut

More than a dozen tigers have died after contracting bird flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam

New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has opened his first policy speech in office by expressing deep regrets over the governing party’s slush funds scandal that dogged his predecessor

Tunisia's President Kais Saied faces few obstacles to winning another term in the country's presidential election Sunday because his major opponents have been imprisoned or left off the ballot

Work, classes and flights resumed across Taiwan after Typhoon Krathon brought torrential rainfall to the island but finally dissipated over a mountain range

One year after the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas militants, survivors reflect on that day's lingering toll

Nearly 1,000 transgender politicians are running Sunday in every one of Brazil’s 26 states

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The New Zealand city of Dunedin is cut off by road due to flooding after recording its wettest day in more than a century

Peru is celebrating two decades since the creation of a genetically modified breed of guinea pig, a rodent whose meat has formed a part of the diet of people in the Andean nation for thousands of years

Guatemala’s Congress has selected the 13 new justices of the Supreme Court in a closely observed process that critics say still failed to rid the court of the influence of powerful interests

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has threatened to use nuclear weapons and destroy South Korea permanently if provoked

They began a pilgrimage that thousands before them have done — a long flight to their motherland, South Korea, to undertake an emotional, often frustrating, sometimes devastating search for their birth families

Dozens of South Korean adoptees, many in tears, have responded to an investigation led by The Associated Press and documented by Frontline (PBS) last week on adoptions from South Korea

Plus, former First Lady Melania Trump voices support for abortion rights and New England towns deal with an influx of tourists seeking out fall foliage.

Environment ministers of the Group of 20 nations agreed Thursday to support the creation of funding sources for ecosystem services, acknowledging Brazil’s proposal to establish a trust fund for forest conservation

Austrian-Canadian billionaire Frank Stronach is facing additional sexual assault charges involving three additional complainants, court documents how

Federal agents say they have detained 64 Haitian migrants after smugglers abandoned them on an uninhabited island west of Puerto Rico

American Hajj Kamel Ahmad Jawad, from Dearborn, Michigan, was killed by an airstrike in Lebanon on Tuesday, according to a statement from his family. ABC News' Ines de La Cuetara reports from Israel.

Palestinian Health Ministry says 14 people killed in an Israeli strike in refugee camp in West Bank

Libya's National Oil Corporation has announced that crude oil production will resume at two of its major fields, where operations stopped in August amid tensions between the country's dueling authorities

South Africa’s Constitutional Court says it will hear a case next month brought by two opposition parties to revive impeachment proceedings against President Cyril Ramaphosa

A Congolese governor says at least 78 people died when an overcrowded boat with 278 passengers capsized on Lake Kivu

Mexican army troops opened fire on a truck carrying migrants from a half dozen countries, and six migrants from Egypt, Peru and Honduras died in an event that President Claudia Sheinbaum called “deplorable.”

Kosovo's prime minister says that the Balkan region has enjoyed the greatest degree of peace, freedom and democracy in its history in the past 25 years

A 31-year-long treasure hunt that drew in thousands of enthusiasts across France appears to have come to an end after official social media accounts linked to the search said the token needed to claim the grand prize had been found

The Cayman Islands plans to hold a referendum on whether to make the possession of small amounts of marijuana a minor crime

An Italian family hopes to prove definitively that a painting discarded from a villa on Capri more than 60 years ago is a Picasso