Many of the millions of people trapped in eastern Congo’s escalating rebellion face a terrible choice: Retreat into Congo’s interior and seek the protection of an army in disarray, or cross into ...

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad is named the country's interim president ...

The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad has been named the country’s interim president, following a meeting of the former insurgent factions ...

Turkish authorities have detained a prominent investigative journalist and four of his colleagues and replaced an elected pro-Kurdish mayor with a state appointee ...

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality perspecti ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — For a few hours last week, the International Criminal Court looked poised to take a Libyan warlord into custody. Instead, member state Italy sent the head of a notorious ...

Germany’s parliament has narrowly approved a call by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s main challenger to turn back many more migrants at the country’s borders, with the help of a far-right party ...

A woman in South Africa has rescued more than 2,500 pugs over the years after she and her husband sold their house, lived in a trailer home for a while and generally reset their lives to help as many ...

A rickety wooden boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims landed Wednesday in Indonesia as the northernmost province of Aceh continued to receive the refugees fleeing persecution and political unr ...

Dutch authorities have arrested three suspects after the theft of a priceless ancient golden helmet that is considered a cultural icon of Romania ...

The Journal has editorialized against Trump's pardons of Jan. 6 rioters , called presidential appointee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “dangerous to public health,” suggested Trump give up the effort to end ...