Iranian competitive climber Elnaz Rekabi received a hero's welcome on her return to Tehran early Wednesday, after competing in South Korea without wearing a mandatory headscarf required of female athl...

U.S. President Joe Biden promised Tuesday that the first bill he sends to Capitol Hill next year will be one that codifies Roe v. Wade — if Democrats control enough seats in Congress for Biden to si...

An Iranian competitive climber left South Korea on Tuesday after competing without her nation's mandatory headscarf, authorities said. Farsi-language media outside Iran say she may have been forced to...

Three police officers in Ukraine's capital shot down a drone on Monday, but officials are warning citizens not to try it themselves.

Various governments pledged $2.6 billion US on Tuesday toward a global plan to again try to eradicate polio, following its comeback, the World Health Organization says.

An American citizen has been arrested in Saudi Arabia, tortured and sentenced to 16 years in prison over tweets he sent while in the United States, his son said Tuesday.

In what a Swedish newspaper described as the first publicly released footage of damage to the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Europe, film from a private drone appeared to show a gaping ruptur...

French cement company Lafarge pleaded guilty on Tuesday to paying millions of dollars to the Islamic State group so that a plant in Syria could remain open, a case that the U.S. Justice Department des...

Gasoline, diesel and kerosene not only fuel Haiti's economy — they're also at the heart of its civil conflict.

An Edmonton man directly funded "violent acts of terrorism," including the kidnapping and killing of people in Syria, said U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman in a statement.

The death toll from floods in Nigeria this year has increased to 603 as local authorities race to get relief items to hundreds of thousands being evacuated from their submerged homes.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss says she is sorry for "mistakes" in a failed tax cuts policy but vows to stay in the job, as doubts swirl over her future amid slumping investor confidence and dire po...

Waves of explosive-laden suicide drones struck Ukraine's capital early Monday as families were preparing to start their week, the blasts echoing across Kyiv, setting buildings ablaze and sending peopl...

Donald Trump's private company arranged for the Secret Service to pay for rooms at his properties in excess of government-approved rates at least 40 times during his presidency, including two charges ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ordered ministers to prepare to keep all of Germany's three remaining nuclear plants running until mid-April to fend off a possible energy crisis caused by Russia's war in U...

Facing their biggest challenge in years, Iran's religious leaders are trying to portray the angry protests over the death of Mahsa Amini as a breakaway uprising by her fellow Kurds threatening the nat...

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for accelerating the building of a world-class military while touting the fight against COVID-19 as he kicked off a Communist Party Congress by focusing heavily on ...

Kevin Spacey testified in a New York courtroom Monday that he never made a sexual advance on actor Anthony Rapp, who has sued, claiming the Academy Award-winning actor tried to take him to bed when h...

U.S. rapper Kanye West, who now goes by Ye, has proposed buying Parler, the social media platform popular among American conservatives, parent Parlement Technologies said on Monday.