An apology service this week marked a major step forward for reconciliation in Sweden, where the Indigenous Sámi people continue to fight for self-determination and recognition of past wrongs committ...

A court in Siberia on Saturday remanded five people in custody for two months to face charges related to a coal mining accident that killed more than 50 people this week and left dozens injured. ...

France's government is offering to discuss some autonomy for the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, which have been wracked by virus-related rioting and strikes that reflect long-r...

At least three people have died in the U.K. after the year's first winter storm battered parts of the nation with gusts of nearly 160 km/h.

Israel on Saturday said it would ban the entry of all foreigners into the country and reintroduce counter-terrorism phone-tracking technology in order to contain the spread of a new and potentially mo...

Thousands of farmers forced India's prime minister into a rare reversal on Nov. 19, when Narendra Modi announced his government would repeal three agricultural reform laws that the farmers feared woul...

Global stock markets and oil prices tumbled Friday after South Africa identified a new potentially fast-spreading coronavirus variant and the European Union proposed suspending air travel from souther...

Gilbert King's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, unearthed previously unknown details about the case of four Black ...

While the seven-year-long conflict between government forces and Russia-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine continues to erupt despite multiple ceasefires, the recent movement of Russia's military f...

Italy has given safe haven to Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed "Afghan Girl" whose 1985 photo in National Geographic became a symbol of her country's wars, Prime Minister Mario Draghi's office said on Thu...

Canada joined a slew of countries moving to restrict air travel from southern Africa on Friday in reaction to news of a new, potentially more transmissible coronavirus variant.

Rescue crews have found a survivor in a Siberian coal mine where dozens of miners are presumed dead after a devastating methane explosion, a senior regional official said on Friday.

Carlos Arthur Nuzman, the head of the Brazilian Olympic Committee for more than two decades, was sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in jail for allegedly buying votes for Rio de Janeiro to host the 2...

The discovery of a new coronavirus variant triggered global alarm on Friday as countries rushed to suspend travel from southern Africa where the variant was first detected and stock markets on both si...

New research suggests the risk of extreme wildfire events is increasing across the globe, with some of the largest increases in Western Canada.

A devastating explosion in a Siberian coal mine Thursday left 52 miners and rescuers dead about 250 metres underground, Russian officials said.

A new coronavirus variant has been detected in South Africa that scientists say is a concern, as Germany tops 100,000 COVID-19 deaths.

The deaths of at least 27 people in the English Channel is fuelling tensions between the U.K. and France over how to stop migrants from crossing the world's busiest waterway in small boats. ...

Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday started hearing a petition to shut down one of the country's oldest and most prominent human rights groups, a move that elicited public outrage and is part of a mont...

Balloons, floats, marching bands, clowns and performers — and, of course, Santa Claus — once again moved though roughly four kilometres of Manhattan streets on Thursday as the Macy's Thanksgivin...