Pope Francis arrived at a G7 summit Friday in southern Italy, the first head of the Catholic Church to take part in the meeting of rich nations. The pontiff, 87,…

Venezuelan prisoners have ended a five-day hunger strike that spread to more than a third of the country’s jails, after the government intervened to meet their demands, a prisoners’ rights…

Kyiv and Moscow staged dozens of drone and missile attacks overnight, officials said Friday, leaving several wounded in Ukraine and damaging a fuel reservoir site in a Russian border region….

Thousands of Brazilians on Thursday rallied against a bill under debate in Congress that would equate abortion with homicide and impose sentences of up to 20 years for terminating a…

South Africa’s newly-elected parliament meets Friday and is expected to re-elect President Cyril Ramaphosa to form an unprecedented coalition government after his ruling ANC cobbled together a coalition deal. The…

R.E.M. performed onstage together for the first time in well over a decade Thursday, reuniting to play their classic “Losing My Religion” as they were inducted into the Songwriters Hall…

Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group said it had fired waves of rockets and drones at the Israeli army on Thursday after an Israeli strike killed one of its senior commanders….

Palestinian officials said Israeli troops killed three Palestinians in a raid in a town in the occupied West Bank Thursday, as Israel’s military reported it had “eliminated two wanted suspects”….

By AFP 13 June 2024   |   6:35 pm A French court on Thursday confirmed the prison sentences of two men who were sentenced to 18 years in jail…

A massive fire at an oil refinery in Iraqi Kurdistan raged for about 20 hours and injured at least 14 firefighters who on Thursday finally brought the blaze under control….