Former rebel Gustavo Petro narrowly won a runoff election over a political outsider millionaire Sunday, ushering in a new era of politics for Colombia by becoming the country's first leftist president...

A fuel storage depot in the Eastern Ukrainian town of Novomoskovsk exploded on Sunday, killing one person and injuring two, after it had been hit by three Russian missiles, the regional administratio...

French President Emmanuel Macron lost control of the National Assembly in legislative elections on Sunday, a major setback that could throw the country into political paralysis unless he is able to ne...

A high-profile flight is due to arrive in Rwanda's capital, Kigali, this week, but it won't be transporting asylum seekers as the U.K. government had intended to deport to the East African nation, aft...

Since the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin and other Kremlin politicians have been warning the West to stay out of the conflict or else risk Russia's nuclear wrath....

The group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Sikh temple in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul that killed at least one worshipper and wounded seven others. ...

Recognition of Juneteenth, the effective end of slavery in the United States, gained traction after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. But after an initial burst of action, the movement to ha...

Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin Saturday, a union said, joining a growing push across U.S. retail, service and tech industries to organize for g...

A celebrated Ukrainian medic whose footage was smuggled out of the besieged city of Mariupol by an Associated Press team was freed by Russian forces on Friday, three months after she was taken captive...

Protesters in India's eastern state of Bihar damaged public property and ransacked offices in a railway station on Saturday, expressing outrage at a new military recruitment plan and demanding the gov...

A panel of advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday voted to recommend COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as six months, making it likely a nationwide rollou...

With all the information and witness testimony heard and seen over three days of hearings into the Jan. 6 riots, perhaps what's most significant is the window into potential charges that could be ...

At least 25 people were killed by lightning or landslides over the weekend in Bangladesh while millions were left marooned or homeless in low-lying northeastern parts hit by the worst monsoon floods i...

Federal police said Friday that some of the human remains found deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest have been identified as belonging to missing British journalist Dom Phillips.

Around midnight on June 17, 1972, 21-year-old intern Bruce Givner didn't pay much attention as he turned off the lights and exited the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate b...

Vince McMahon is stepping down as CEO and chairman of WWE during an investigation into alleged misconduct involving the longtime leader and public face of the organization.

The British government on Friday ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges, a milestone — but not the end — of a decade-long legal sag...

On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized coronavirus vaccines for children under five years of age. Canadian children under five cannot yet be vaccinated against COVID-19, as Health...

The European Union's executive arm recommended putting Ukraine on a path to membership on Friday, a symbolic boost for a country fending off a Russian onslaught that is killing civilians, flattening c...

Japanese plaintiffs in four lawsuits, many still displaced in and outside of Fukushima since a 2011 nuclear crisis, had their bid to sue the government denied on Friday in a highly anticipated ruling....