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Novak Djokovic clearly is not done dominating his sport

Authorities in Nigeria say 20 people including children have died in road crashes involving trucks over the weekend

Syrian opposition activists and pro-government media are reporting that drones have attacked a convoy of trucks in eastern Syria shortly after they crossed from Iraq

The first U.S. Cabinet member to visit Somalia since 2015 is urging the world’s distracted donors to give immediate help to a country facing deadly famine

Puerto Rico’s southeast coast has long been considered one of the U.S. territory’s most contaminated regions

Hazel McCallion, who led one of Canada’s largest cities into her 90′s, has died, leaving behind a legacy of feisty advocacy and more than three decades of nearly unchallenged leadership

An alarming spike in Israeli-Palestinian violence and sharp responses by both sides are testing the Biden administration as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken plunges into a cauldron of deepening mistrust and anger on visits to Israel and the West ...

When police fire tear gas at protesters demanding the resignation of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, most run away

Friends and volunteers have gathered at Kyiv’s St Sophia’s Cathedral to say goodbye to a New Zealand scientist who was killed in Ukraine with another volunteer while they were trying to evacuate people from a front-line town

Lebanon, two international oil giants and state-owned oil and gas company Qatar Energy agreed Sunday that the Qatari firm will join a consortium that will search for gas in the Mediterranean Sea off Lebanon’s coast

France’s prime minister says that the government’s plan to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 is “no longer negotiable."

Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has won a party primary and will run for a second term in September elections

A mining corporation has apologized for losing a highly radioactive capsule over a 870-mile stretch of Western Australia

China says it's resuming issuing visas for Japanese travelers beginning Sunday, ending its nearly three-week suspension in an apparent protest of Tokyo’s tougher COVID-19 entry requirements for Lunar New Year tourists from China

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has fired the chairman of the governing Conservative Party for a “serious breach” of ethics rules in failing to come clean about a tax dispute

UK prime minister fires his party chairman, accused of settling settled an unpaid tax bill while he was Treasury chief

Voters in Tunisia have shunned parliamentary elections seen as an important test for their president and the country's troubled democracy

Turkey’s president has suggested his country might approve Finland’s application for NATO membership before taking any action on Sweden’s

It has been over 11 weeks since Ukrainian forces wrested back part of Kherson province from Russian occupation

A Palestinian man killed seven people outside an east Jerusalem synagogue.

A government official says a bus accident in southern Pakistan has left 40 people dead

Iran’s Defense Ministry says one of its factories was attacked in Isfahan.

A passenger bus has fallen into a ravine in northern Peru leaving at least 25 people dead and others injured

Israeli PM Netanyahu announces punitive steps in response to Palestinian attacks, including 'strengthening' settlements

The foreign ministers of Sweden and Finland have reiterated in separate interviews published Saturday that the process for the two Nordic nations to join NATO is continuing

The Taliban are doubling down on their ban on women’s education.

Potentially deadly radioactive capsule got lost during transport on a truck.

Trying to equip the invaded country with long-range missiles, military aircraft.

Retired Gen. Petr Pavel beats billionaire Andrej Babis to become new Czech president

The husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says he was deeply moved by a “solemn and sad” visit to the former site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp

A mobile app for migrants to seek asylum in the United States has been overwhelmed since it was introduced this month in one of several major changes to the government’s response to unprecedented migration flows

Tunisia was once the Arab world’s hope for a new era of democracy

Hundreds of climate activists have blocked one of the main roads into The Hague, defying attempts to prevent their protest that have sparked concerns about restrictions on the right to demonstrate

The Philippines says it will take steps to assess and prevent abuses including rape and maltreatment of Filipino workers in Kuwait after a housemaid was killed and dumped in a desert in the oil-rich emirate

Italy’s prime minister has held talks in Libya with officials from the country’s west-based government focusing on energy and migration, top issues for Italy and the European Union

Struggling U.K. airline Flybe has collapsed for the second time in less than three years

A retired army general has defeated a populist billionaire in a runoff vote to choose the new president of the Czech Republic

Italian designer Sabato De Sarno has been named the new creative director of Gucci, and will unveil his first collection during Milan Fashion Week next September, Gucci and parent company Kering announced Saturday

Sri Lanka’s president has suspended Parliament until Feb. 8, when he said he would announced a new set of long-term policies to address a range of issues including an unprecedented economic crisis

Italy’s premier says Italian diplomatic property has been the target of vandalism in Berlin and Barcelona

Pope Francis has clarified his comments about homosexuality and sin

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a series of punitive steps.

Israel rescue service says shooting in east Jerusalem has wounded 2 people, day after deadliest attack in city in years

Two Indian air force jets have crashed in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, killing one pilot

When Pope Francis arrives in Congo and South Sudan next week, thousands of people will take special note of a gesture more grounded than the sign of the cross

Mali’s Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop has defended the military government’s cooperation with Russia

A Japanese whaling operator, after struggling for years to promote its products amid protests from conservationists, has found a new way to cultivate clientele: whale meat vending machines

At 10:40 a.m. on a day in January, two powerful beams of light from the Svalbard governor’s boat pierced the complete darkness of the mountain-fringed fjord it was sailing. It was carrying the children’s choir from this remote village’s church to visit an even more isolated Arctic outpost. That’s polar night in this Norwegian archipelago – so close to the North Pole the sun is at least six degrees below the horizon from mid-November through the end of January. For the miners, scientists and tourism workers of more than 50 nationalities who make up most of Svalbard’s 3,000 inhabitants, it's challenging at first to adjust to living without even a hint of twilight in a treeless, black-and-white landscape. “First time in Svalbard, it was like coming to the moon,” said the Rev. Leif Magne Helgesen, who was the pastor of Svalbard Kirke, the only church in the main village of Longyearbyen, for a dozen years until 2019, and has written about its fragile environment. Then the polar night...

Mexico City prosecutors say severed cables and a speeding driver were responsible for a Jan. 7 subway crash that killed one person and injured dozens

Nicaraguan authorities say they have arrested 24 settlers after they allegedly attacked an indigenous community as part of a land dispute