Days after back-to-back earthquakes hit the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, desperate family members are digging through the dirt in hopes of rescuing loved ones trapped under collapsed buildings.
U.S. President Donald Trump said peace talks with Iran are set to resume Tuesday in Doha after both sides agreed to halt a series of tit-for-tat attacks over the Strait of Hormuz.
Venezuela’s earthquake catastrophe continued to worsen Sunday, with the official death toll rising to at least 1,450 as rescue crews raced against time to find survivors in the rubble and hund…
LA GUAIRA, Venezuela - The apartments that stood here once signaled a new beginning, part of the emblematic “grand housing mission” that delivered government-built apartments to thousands of f…
The death toll from the devastating double earthquake that struck Venezuela’s northern coast climbed to at least 920 people Friday, with 3,660 injured, as rescue crews intensified their search…
The Trump administration took aim at the separation of church and state Friday, issuing a draft report from the president’s Religious Liberty Commission that says the separation concept is a l…
MIAMI - Nilka Simosa Verde, a Venezuelan-American living in Miami Beach, has been hoping and praying to hear from her family since two earthquakes jolted Venezuela’s Caribbean coast Wednesday …
Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori moved significantly closer to becoming Peru’s next president after an electoral tribunal on Tuesday rejected a challenge seeking to annul overseas votes, wh…
LONDON - Andy Burnham could still face hurdles in his path to become the next U.K. prime minister with two potential rivals for the Labour leadership considering their next moves.
Andy Burnham appears set to become the UK’s seventh prime minister in a decade after Keir Starmer laid out a timeline for his own departure and potential rivals backed a quick transition to th…
Allies of Keir Starmer expect him to set out a timetable for his departure as U.K. prime minister in the coming days, putting Britain on course for its seventh premier in a decade and paving t…
Vladimir Putin's political hero, Pyotr Stolypin - a reforming prime minister of the Russian Empire - is buried in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. That wasn't enough to protect one of Orthodox Christi…
Iran delayed the start of negotiations over a permanent peace deal with the U.S. after fighting intensified in southern Lebanon, a potential setback to U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to…
WASHINGTON - The U.S.-Iran interim peace deal took effect and shipping started returning to the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S. declared an end to its blockade and a complex negotiating period ov…
President Donald Trump signed an interim deal to end the war with Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, speeding up the timeline for the agreement to go into effect despite blowback from Repub…
The United States and Iran are preparing to formally sign an interim peace deal that has left both sides claiming victory, with details of the accord still emerging and energy insiders skeptic…
The United States and Iran reached an interim peace agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and move further toward ending a 15-week war that has wrought chaos across the Middle East and reve…
President Xi Jinping is shifting tactics in his campaign to pressure Taiwan, ramping up diplomatic isolation of the island while dialing down provocative displays of military aggression.
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump pulled back threatened military strikes against Iran, a stark reversal that came just hours after he vowed to hit the Islamic Republic “VERY HARD” and threa…
DETROIT - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday that the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge across the Detroit River could be delayed, but maintained that "there's no…
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military said it had launched strikes against “multiple” targets in Iran for the second day in a row after President Donald Trump accused the country of dragging out talk…
WASHINGTON - American forces carried out “self-defense strikes” against Iran on Tuesday, hours after President Donald Trump blamed Tehran for shooting down an American military helicopter off …
MANILA, Philippines - At least 32 people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Monday, prompting tsunami warnings across parts of the region that were lifte…
The U.S. and Iran appear to be making little progress toward an interim deal to end the war that Washington and Israel began 100 days ago, as fresh attacks add pressure to a fragile ceasefire.
Harrowing scenes are unfolding at health facilities at the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Russian leader Vladimir Putin has rejected the offer of a direct meeting made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an open letter, saying on Friday that he sa…
On a thoroughfare that usually throbs with music, shouted bargains and the bustle of downtown Johannesburg, the metal shutters on the shops are closed.
President Claudia Sheinbaum, who won praise for her cool-headed approach to dealing with Donald Trump, is adopting a more aggressive tone against what she describes as U.S. attempts to interfe…
There was no sign of progress in ceasefire talks between the U.S. and Iran after the worst burst of violence in weeks and as the Tehran-backed Hezbollah militia rejected on Thursday a U.S.-bro…
WASHINGTON - The United States and Iran clashed again overnight, with Kuwait and Bahrain caught in the crossfire of the most serious flare-up since a ceasefire went into effect in early April.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told congressional lawmakers Tuesday that Venezuela no longer poses the same national security threat to the United States that it did under Nicolás Maduro, poin…
President Donald Trump remains optimistic that the United States can reach an interim peace deal with Iran soon after the Islamic Republic threatened to suspend talks because of Israel’s escal…
BEIRUT - The Israeli infantrymen advanced to the hilltop in the dead of night, fighting their way in a bare-knuckle, eyeball-to-eyeball battle against entrenched defenders until they reached t…
The U.S. and Iran traded messages over the weekend seeking changes to a draft agreement that would extend a ceasefire and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but it remained unclear whether the sides…
Several Americans were hurt in a missile attack on a Kuwaiti air base over the past day as negotiations to extend the ceasefire with Iran dragged on without a conclusion.
Romania accused Russia of a “serious and irresponsible escalation” after a drone entered its airspace early on Friday and crashed into an apartment building, injuring two people.
Cuba’s military is both larger and weaker than it might at first appear.
The Trump administration is planning to send Americans exposed to Ebola to a quarantine facility in central Kenya that the U.S. military has been directed to stand up within a week, according …
With the battlefield largely at a stalemate, Russia is ramping up ballistic missile attacks on Ukraine to try to regain the strategic initiative by overwhelming air defenses and demoralizing i…
Ebola is spreading faster than responders can track it in eastern Congo, where health workers managed to follow up with barely one in five identified contacts in a single day.
Ebola may have killed more than 200 people so far in the Democratic Republic the of Congo and African officials warned the outbreak is turning into a regional security threat as it spills over…
Iran said talks on a peace deal with the U.S. focused on ensuring fighting ends on all fronts are progressing and that other key points of contention will be ironed out at a later stage.
MEXICO CITY - In recent days, the U.S. Navy stationed an aircraft carrier off the coast of Cuba, the White House expanded sanctions on Havana's leaders and federal prosecutors charged former C…
In what appears to be a carefully calibrated show of force, the United States deployed the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz and its accompanying strike group into Caribbean waters this week, a move…
WASHINGTON - The U.S. and Iran traded threats of escalation on Wednesday as the weeks-long stalemate in the Middle East dragged on without resolution.
NATO is discussing the possibility of helping ships pass through the blocked Strait of Hormuz if the waterway isn’t reopened by early July, according to a senior official in the military alliance.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing late Tuesday, aiming to reinforce ties with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and make progress on a long-stalled energy project.
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump threatened to resume strikes on Iran in the coming days as part of the push for a deal to end the war, after he said he had just called off a U.S. attack.
President Donald Trump said Monday that he had tentatively called off plans for the United States military to attack Iran after the heads of three countries in the Middle East asked him to giv…
MOSCOW - At least three people were killed in the Moscow region when Ukraine attacked Russia with hundreds of drones overnight, local authorities said Sunday.