"We're encouraging countries not to restrict exports because we think any restrictions on exports will exacerbate the food shortages," Linda Thomas-Greenfield said during a ministerial gathering on food security ahead of a meeting of the UN Security...

Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group and its allies lost their parliamentary majority, according to full legislative results announced by the interior ministry on Tuesday.

Temperatures often exceed 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) here, but this year the heat came early in what many experts say is more proof of climate change making life unbearable for India's 1.4 billion people. "It's always been very hot here an...

It is a stark illustration of how people in the war-battered city in the north east are attempting to recapture some essence of normal life, even though Russian aggression lurks not far away. Kharkiv, the regional capital, has been battered by the ...

On a windy military island off Helsinki, Finnish volunteers are taking part in a military training, organised by the country's National Defence Training Association (MPK). Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the interest in the assoc...

"We have decided to use all tools to guarantee security," said interior minister Izkia Siches after announcing the move. Soldiers were deployed to Araucania and to towns in the neighboring Biobio region in October last year on the orders of conserv...

The country's borders have been closed to almost all arrivals since the spring of 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Authorities only recently began allowing some students and business visitors to enter. There are no plans to lift bord...

The world's second-biggest economy is seeking to stamp out the coronavirus entirely, with rapid lockdowns and mass testing, and the measures have hammered both domestic and international air travel. The aviation sector's recovery in Asia was alread...

A man who padlocked a church and opened fire on its Taiwanese-American congregation, killing one person and injuring five others, was motivated by hatred of the island and its people, US investigators said Monday.

The hosts reached 157-0 at lunch after they began the day on 76-0 in response to Sri Lanka's 397 in Chittagong. Bangladesh trail by 240 runs after Tamim, on 89, and Mahmudul, on 58, kept the Sri Lankan bowlers at bay in the first session despite a ...

Clashes erupted in Libya's capital on Tuesday as the parliament-appointed prime minister, Fathi Bashagha, tried to take control of government from a rival administration that has refused to cede power.

There has been close attention on the numbers of Russian generals and high-ranking officers killed since the invasion launched by President Vladimir Putin on February 24, which has proved far more costly than the Kremlin wished. But with observers ...

All that, just to see some bare picture rails. Life has resumed a semblance of quasi-normality in Lviv, western Ukraine, since Russian forces pulled out of the Kyiv region to focus their offensive on the south and east. But museums in the self-sty...

The masks are off, health passes are no longer needed and the world's leading cinema get-together is ready to party after two years in which the pandemic put a dampener on proceedings. Whitaker, the 60-year-old star of "The Last King of Scotland" ...