Iran is in the throes of protests that have cost more than 450 people their lives in the past six weeks, according to one opposition group. As the country's regime cracks down, some observers wonder w...

The UN climate summit COP27 begins next week in Egypt with a push for countries and industries to deliver on their emissions targets. The shipping industry has been a big polluter in the past, but gre...

 Israel's former premier Benjamin Netanyahu was poised to return to power, saying on Wednesday that his right-wing camp was on the cusp of a resounding election win.

Russia has ordered civilians to leave a swath of Ukraine along the eastern bank of a major river, in a move Kyiv says amounts to the forced depopulation of occupied territory. Meanwhile, experts fro...

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro broke his silence for the first time publicly since the election, saying he has always followed the constitution, but did not concede he lost to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Su...

The man accused of breaking into U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's home, beating her husband and seeking to kidnap her, told police he was on a "suicide mission" and had plans to target other Californ...

Iranian university students pressed ahead with sit-down strikes on Tuesday in support of some of the biggest protests since the 1979 revolution, ignoring harsh warnings by elite security forces and a ...

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the town of Morbi in his home state of Gujarat where a suspension bridge collapsed Sunday, killing more than 130 people. Modi said those behind the tragedy...

Two of Ukraine's top supreme court justices have delivered starkly personal messages to an international conference of top legal minds in Ottawa. With their country under fire, they say the rule of la...

Elon Musk, the newly minted owner, chair and CEO of Twitter, says he wants to let anyone get verified on the platform for $8 a month, in exchange for being able to post longer messages and videos, and...

The South Korean government is facing growing public scrutiny over whether the crush Saturday night in a popular nightlife neighbourhood in Seoul could have been prevented.

A federal judge on Monday blocked Penguin Random House's proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster, agreeing with the U.S. Justice Department that the joining of two of the world's biggest publishers coul...

The fatal shooting of the rapper Takeoff has Houston police asking for the public's help in identifying who opened fire outside a bowling alley early Tuesday, killing the 28-year-old member of the Gra...

The man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi, the husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, told police he wanted to hold the Speaker hostage and "break her kneecaps," authorities said Monday. ...

For the fifth time since 2019, Israelis were voting in national elections on Tuesday, hoping to break the political deadlock that has paralyzed the country for the past 3½ years.

A massive barrage of Russian cruise missile and drone strikes hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv, Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities early Monday, knocking out power and water supplies in apparen...

More than 100 people have died in one of the most destructive storms to lash the Philippines this year, with dozens more feared missing after villagers fled in the wrong direction and got buried in a ...

South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Monday promised a thorough investigation into the Halloween crush over the weekend that killed more than 150 people in the capital and plunged the country...