The wife of Sri Lanka’s former powerful President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been arrested and detained on allegations of misusing donations received into...

   Russian authorities are keeping a tight lid on information about last week’s suspicious death of a lab worker in Siberia that has been surrounded by...

   The Ebola outbreak in Congo is spreading rapidly to new hot spots where patients have little or no support

   German ex-intelligence chief August Hanning faces charges of treasonous espionage

   A prosecutor says a man accused of killing former British politician Ann Widdecombe allegedly tried to break into Nigel Farage’s home about a year...

   A stronghold of Turkey’s opposition has fallen to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party for the first time

   Police in Poland have arrested a 19-year-old student following an attack at a vocational school north of Warsaw, the country’s capital

   A former Buddhist monk in Thailand has been convicted of misusing donations meant for a hospice he established for people with HIV AIDS and given the...

   Iraq has devalued its currency, changing the official exchange rate from 1,300 to 1,500 Iraqi dinars to the dollar

   The families of thousands missing after Nepal’s catastrophic floods have mixed feelings about the government’s decision to stop search efforts

   Kosovo’s lawmakers have elected economist Justina Shiroka Pula as the new president, narrowly avoiding a snap election

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   Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to call on the nations of the West to return to their civilizational roots and restore the values that drove...

   Russian missiles and drones have pounded Kyiv and other Ukrainian regions, killing at least 21 civilians, including four children, and wounding...

   A former Australian Catholic bishop has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for sexually abusing two young Indigenous men

   The governor of Okinawa has demanded the central government do more to ensure discipline among U.S. troops on the southern Japanese island

   The government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines has shuttered all schools after heavy rains unleashed flooding and landslides across the eastern...

   Colombian president Abelardo de la Espriella has offered legal assistance to a group of Colombian military veterans who were arrested over the 2021...

   Pakistan’s government is providing fuel subsidies to over 9 million low-income people as the U.S.-Iran war drives up energy prices

   Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has a reputation as a political survivor who relishes the electoral gambit

   British prosecutors say three Iranian spies conducted surveillance on journalists at a London-based Persian news channel critical of Tehran’s...

   Laos has a new prime minister after the National Assembly elected veteran diplomat Saleumxay Kommasith

   Saudi Arabia and its allies in the Yemeni government have launched a military campaign to reclaim territory near the Bab al-Mandeb Strait from Houthi...

   The lawyer for a British man who pleaded guilty to a charge of negligence in the fatal fall of his 3-year-old son from a hotel window in Cyprus has...

   Off-grid solar power is spreading across Brazil’s Amazon, helping remote communities prepare for severe drought while replacing costly, polluting...