Airlines shunned Belarus's airspace on Tuesday and Belarusian planes could soon be banned from Europe — potentially isolating the land-locked country apart from its border with Russia — after auth...

Polling stations opened on Wednesday across Syria in a presidential election that is set to usher Bashar al-Assad into a fourth term in office.

The United States is ramping up its dispute with Canada over the sale of American dairy products north of the border — the first significant new trade squabble between the two countries of the pos...

Iran named the hardline cleric running its judiciary and six others Tuesday as approved candidates in its June 18 presidential election, barring prominent candidates allied to its current president am...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced the reopening of the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem — a move that restores ties with the Palestinians that had been downgraded by the Trump...

Moderna said Tuesday its COVID-19 vaccine strongly protects kids as young as 12, a step that could put the shot on track to become the second option for that age group in the United States. ...

British Columbia announced its four-step reopening plan on Tuesday, with the first step starting today. The federal government, meanwhile, is deploying health workers, medical equipment and the mili...

European Union leaders on Monday agreed on a set of sanctions against Belarus, including a ban on the use of the 27-nation bloc's airspace and airports, amid fury over the forced diversion of a passen...

Artists describe what’s changed since they painted powerful calls for action in their communities after the death of George Floyd a year ago.

More than 1.1 million people have evacuated low-lying areas ahead of a cyclone expected to hit part of India's eastern coast around midday Wednesday.

Mutinous soldiers arrested Mali's transitional president and prime minister on Monday, hours after a government reshuffle left out two members of the junta that seized power in a coup nine months earl...

A Massachusetts woman who accidentally tossed out a $1 million US lottery ticket eventually collected her winnings thanks to the kindness and honesty of the owners of the store where she bought it. ...

The investigation into Italy's cable car disaster that killed 14 people will focus on why the lead cable snapped and why the emergency brake didn't engage and prevent the cabin from careening back dow...

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has agreed to a one-month extension to the deal on surveillance cameras at its nuclear sites.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken took off for the Middle East on Monday to press the Israelis, Palestinians and regional players to build on and strengthen last week's Gaza ceasefire, start an i...

Members of George Floyd's family, and others who lost loved ones to police encounters, joined activists and citizens in Minneapolis on Sunday for a march that was one of several events planned across ...

Torrents of lava poured into villages after dark in eastern Congo with little warning, leaving at least 15 people dead amid the chaos and destroying more than 500 homes, officials and survivors said S...

Rising Republican star Elise Stefanik, whose support for former U.S. president Donald Trump vaulted her into a key party leadership role, has also been active in boosting Canada-U.S. relations. ...

Twenty-one people were killed when extremely cold weather struck during an ultramarathon on Saturday in China's northwestern Gansu province, state media reported on Sunday.

Move over sequins, disco beats and power ballads. A four-piece band of Italian rockers won the Eurovision Song Contest in the early hours of Sunday.