Nine years after Pooja Gaud was kidnapped near her Mumbai school, a missing persons poster has helped the teenager reunite with her family. She was beaten and forced to work, and is still seeking just...

Protesters in Iran called a three-day strike this week as they seek to maintain pressure on authorities over the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, with protests planned on the day President Ebrahim Rai...

A group of Swifties has filed a lawsuit seeking compensation from Ticketmaster after its website crashed during pre-sales for the pop star's upcoming tour, leaving millions of fans empty-handed. ...

Two power substations in a North Carolina county were damaged by gunfire in what is being investigated as a criminal act, causing damage that could take days to repair and leaving tens of thousands of...

Former U.S. president Donald Trump faced rebuke Sunday from officials in both parties after calling for the "termination" of parts of the constitution over his lie that the 2020 election was stolen. ...

Indonesia's highest volcano on its most densely populated island released searing gas clouds and rivers of lava on Sunday in its latest eruption.

Some celebrities have boycotted the World Cup because of Qatar's poor human rights record. But even more agreed to appear — possibly because of indifference to the controversy, or because of a gener...

About 2,500 seals have been found dead on the Caspian Sea coast in southern Russia, and it's not clear what killed them, officials said Sunday.

China is easing draconian COVID-19 restrictions in a patchwork manner. But for reasons both medical and political, it will be hard to really end the 'zero-COVID' policy — even as the Chinese people ...

According to a source close to the Iranian rapper, Toomaj Salehi has reportedly been subjected to severe torture in prison after being abducted by regime forces over a month ago.

Russian authorities rejected a price cap on the country's oil set by Ukraine's Western supporters and threatened Saturday to stop supplying the nations that endorsed it.

Biden administration officials are toughening their language toward NATO ally Turkey as they try to talk Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan out of launching a bloody and destabilizing ground offen...

The government of El Salvador has sent 10,000 soldiers and police to seal off a town on the outskirts of the nation's capital to search for gang members. The operation was one of the largest mobilizat...

Within two years, Sweden — the formerly neutral Nordic country that's soon to join NATO — will meet the Western military alliance's often-debated defence spending target of two per cent of gross d...

Three federal ministers have declined to testify in front of a group of senators looking into why Canadian humanitarian groups have been blocked from working in Afghanistan out of fear of running afou...

Victims of the Uvalde school shooting in Texas that left 21 people dead have filed a lawsuit against local and state police, the city and other school and law enforcement officials seeking $27 billion...

The federal government is looking at helping to secure the release of 19 Canadian women and children being held in northeastern Syria, a newly filed court document says.

Canada managed to resolve its most pressing complaint about the Buy-American provisions in the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act. But the Europeans are still steaming over what it could mean for electric v...

Referred to as Qatar’s first person to come out publicly as gay, Dr. Nasser Mohamed thought having the World Cup on his home soil was the perfect opportunity to shed light on the country’s mistrea...

A 33-year-old man was arrested on a murder charge in the shooting of rapper Takeoff, who police on Friday said was an 'innocent bystander' when he was struck by gunfire outside a Houston bowling alley...