Member states of the global chemical weapons watchdog have suspended Syria’s voting rights at the organization as a punishment for the repeated use of toxic gas by Damasc...

Rebels are threatening to depose the son of Chad's slain president after he was named interim leader of the central African nation.

The president of the ethnically divided island nation of Cyprus has met with Greece’s prime minister before informal talks to be held in Switzerland next week.

Officials say 22 COVID-19 patients on ventilators have died in a hospital in western India when their oxygen supply was interrupted by a leak in a supply line.

A well-respected economic think thank says households in Britain, especially poorer ones, are far more likely to have suffered a severe income shock during the coronaviru...

President Vladimir Putin says Moscow’s response will be “quick and tough” if the West encroaches on Russia's security interests.

The Dutch caretaker prime minister has announced a significant easing in his country’s months-long coronavirus lockdown.

A first round of direct talks between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran signal a possible de-escalation following years of animosity that has often spilled over into ...

The powerful Church of Greece says it will allow the faithful to take part in Orthodox Easter services next week but limit attendance and hold the services earlier in the...

Diplomats working in Vienna on a solution to bringing the United States back into the nuclear deal with Iran and world powers are taking a break from talks to consult wit...

Several doctors have been prevented from seeing Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny at a prison hospital after his three-week hunger strike.

Russia has insisted that it has the right to restrict foreign naval ships’ movement off Crimea, rejecting Ukrainian complaints and Western criticism.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for more equitable management of global affairs and, in an implicit rejection of U.S. dominance, said governments shouldn’t impose...

Reporters Without Borders says there has been a “dramatic deterioration” of press freedom since the pandemic started to tear across the world.

President Joe Biden is being forced to go virtual for many of his leader-to-leader talks during the coronavirus pandemic, and the resulting Zoom meetings just aren't a na...

The Czech Republic’s prime minister and prosecutor general say the two Russian military agents believed to be behind a massive depot explosion in 2014 likely targeted the...

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has urged governments, vaccine developers and the international community to “step up their game” to fight vaccine inequity.

Two endangered Mexican beaded lizards have hatched at the Wroclaw Zoo in Poland, boosting the population of the venomous lizards.

In many ways, Cuba’s new maximum leader is nothing like those who have governed the island for the past six decades.

Police say an Albanian man with a knife has wounded five people at a mosque in the capital.

Security forces in Myanmar have used violence against demonstrators who sought to celebrate last week’s formation of a shadow government to serve as an alternative to the...

Teaming up with NBC’s Climate Challenge this Earth Week, Local 4 meteorologist Paul Gross will answer the most-asked questions about climate change all week long.

A human rights group is appealing to the United Nations to investigate allegations China’s government is committing crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang region.

British authorities are exploring the possibility of creating a new digital currency that Treasury chief Rishi Sunak indicated could become commonly known as “Britcoin.”.