Southern Africa's regional bloc on Wednesday extended by a year its troop deployment in Democratic Republic of Congo, where it is helping the government fight rebel groups.
November 20, 2024
Texas is offering a parcel of rural ranchland along the U.S.-Mexico border to use as a staging area for potential mass deportations under President-elect Donald Trump
November 20, 2024
The Colombian rebel group Segunda Marquetalia has split in two, but the larger faction will continue to pursue peace talks with the government, it said on
November 20, 2024
The U.S. decision to provide Ukraine with antipersonnel land mines expands the use of a weapon that the international community has long condemned because of its danger to innocent civilians
November 20, 2024
Hamas' acting Gaza chief Khalil al-Hayya said in remarks broadcast on Wednesday that there would be no hostages-for-prisoners swap deal with Israel unless the
November 20, 2024
China's defense minister declined a meeting with U.S.
November 20, 2024
Russia has sent a gift of more than 70 animals to North Korea for the Pyongyang Zoo, including bears, yaks, ducks and cockatoos
November 20, 2024
More than 50 governments have signed a U.N. declaration to make tourism around the globe more climate friendly, the United Nations said on Wednesday, in what it
November 20, 2024
Trump announces Matthew Whitaker as his pick to be US ambassador to NATO
November 20, 2024
Chicago families who have lost loved ones to violence plant peace trees
November 20, 2024
A human rights report says hundreds of people in Belarus who have shown solidarity with Ukraine have been arrested in a sweeping crackdown under authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko
November 20, 2024
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the spiritual leader of Anglicans worldwide and the head of the Church of England, will complete his official duties by January 6, after
November 20, 2024
Opposition politicians in Democratic Republic of Congo called on Wednesday for nationwide protests against President Felix Tshisekedi's plans to revise the constitution.
November 20, 2024
Serbian opposition politicians scuffled with police as they blocked entry to a court building on Wednesday in protest at the time it is taking to bring those responsible for a
November 20, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump says he's chosen former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to serve as U.S. ambassador to NATO
November 20, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party and its allies are projected to have an edge in two crucial state elections, according to TV exit polls on Wednesday, in an apparent
November 20, 2024
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said in a televised speech aired on Wednesday that his group had reviewed and given feedback on a U.S.-drafted ceasefire proposal to end fighting with
November 20, 2024
Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Teresa Ribera, who is vying for a top European Commission job, on Wednesday defended the state's handling of last month's deadly floods in Valencia and
November 20, 2024
India's economic growth is expected to pick up in the current quarter after a slowdown in July-September, the country's central bank said in its monthly bulletin on Wednesday, citing a
November 20, 2024
The United States has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the war in Gaza because it was not linked to an immediate release of hostages taken captive by Hamas last year
November 20, 2024
Israeli officials have demanded freedom to strike Hezbollah in Lebanon as part of any emerging cease-fire deal between the sides, raising a potential complication as a top U.S. envoy was in the region attempting to clinch an agreement
November 20, 2024
The United States on Wednesday vetoed a U.N.
November 20, 2024
Smuggler arrested with 300 tarantulas strapped to his body
November 20, 2024
Pope Francis, who has shunned much of the pomp and privilege of leading the global Catholic Church, has decided that a simple wooden casket will suffice when
November 20, 2024
Accident or sabotage? American and European officials disagree as key undersea cables are cut
November 20, 2024
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Wednesday he hopes Iran's move towards capping its stock of uranium just short of weapons grade will hold, as
November 20, 2024
Pope Francis has revised the funeral rites that will be used when he dies
November 20, 2024
Countries at the COP29 climate summit were warned on Wednesday that the "hardest part" was about to start in talks over how much
November 20, 2024
They relocated to Spain six years ago. Now this couple say they’d be ‘very depressed’ if they ever had to move back to the United States
November 20, 2024
Netanyahu offers $5 million and safe passage out of Gaza to anyone returning a hostage
November 20, 2024
The United States has vetoed a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
November 20, 2024
The Netherlands plans to temporarily enlist additional personnel and equipment from private companies to strengthen security in its part of the North Sea, the Defence Ministry
November 20, 2024
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein said he will travel to Israel on Wednesday to try to secure a ceasefire ending the war with Lebanon's Hezbollah group after declaring
November 20, 2024
The World Health Organization has authorized the first mpox vaccine for children
November 20, 2024
Greek police arrested an Algerian man suspected of smuggling tablets of pain-fighting drug pregabalin to France from Greece, following an operation with French authorities and EU
November 20, 2024
Indian international students in the US outnumber Chinese for the first time in 15 years
November 20, 2024
The Danish military said on Wednesday that it was staying close to a Chinese ship currently sitting idle in Danish waters, days after two fibre-optic data
November 20, 2024
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian called on Pope Francis to use his influence with Christian governments to stop war in the Middle East, semi-official Fars news agency reported on
November 20, 2024
Indonesia is optimistic it can reach net zero emissions before 2050, a decade earlier than previously targeted, President Prabowo Subianto told a G20 forum, Prabowo also said
November 20, 2024
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan opposes a U.S. decision to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles to attack inside Russia, saying it would further enflame the conflict,
November 20, 2024
Cuban farmer Leonardo Abreu clambered over fallen banana plants in a field beside his home, taking stock of the wreckage two weeks after Category 3 Hurricane
November 20, 2024
A court in Pakistan granted bail to jailed former prime minister Imran Khan in a case relating to the illegal sale of state gifts, his party said on Wednesday.
November 20, 2024
An unusual cluster of typhoons in the West Pacific and a series of powerful hurricanes in the Atlantic are raising questions about the impact that climate change
November 20, 2024
A new study says human-caused climate change made Atlantic hurricanes about 18 mph stronger in the last six years
November 20, 2024
Every hurricane this season was turbocharged and made more intense than it should have been, study finds
November 20, 2024
President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday cited the central bank's year-end inflation forecast of 44% and said Turkey will not let inflation crush people when asked about an expected
November 20, 2024
At least 50 Boko Haram fighters were killed on Tuesday and seven members of Nigeria's infrastructure security force were missing following an insurgent ambush on a
November 20, 2024
Can the sporty be Godly? Why the Vatican is in the race to become a global sporting presence
November 20, 2024
Uruguayan center-left opposition leader Yamandu Orsi, whose political ambitions were galvanized by his experience growing up in a dictatorship, is the
November 20, 2024
Russia transferred more than 70 animals, including an African lion and two brown bears, to a zoo in the North Korean capital Pyongyang from Moscow's zoo, the Russian government said
November 20, 2024
Russia’s upper house of parliament has endorsed a bill banning adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transitioning is legal
November 20, 2024
China has overtaken Germany in the use of robots in industry, an annual report published by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) showed on Wednesday, underscoring the
November 20, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a new nuclear doctrine, lowering the threshold for a nuclear strike in response to a broader range of conventional attacks.
November 20, 2024
Officials say Pakistan has detected one more polio case in the restive northwest bordering Afghanistan, raising the country’s tally of the infectious disease to 50 cases this year
November 20, 2024
Russia will retaliate against NATO countries that facilitate long-range missile strikes against Russian territory by Ukraine, foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin said in an
November 20, 2024
The U.S. defense chief says the Biden administration will give Ukraine antipersonnel land mines to help it slow Russia’s battlefield advances
November 20, 2024
Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai, 76, testified in court for the first time on Wednesday in his landmark
November 20, 2024
Large protests have been held in Greece as part of a 24-hour nationwide general strike called by labor unions timed to coincide with the government submitting its 2025 budget to Parliament
November 20, 2024
United Nations agencies are trying to unlock key climate financing for Afghanistan, one of the world's most vulnerable countries to
November 20, 2024
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot on Wednesday dismissed President Vladimir Putin's decision to lower the threshold for a nuclear strike as just "rhetoric".
November 20, 2024
Russian farmers say they will sow less wheat after heavy losses this year, switching to more profitable crops such as peas, lentils,
November 20, 2024
A major storm was sweeping across the U.S. Northwest, battering the region with strong winds and rain
November 20, 2024
A veteran Ugandan opposition politician was kidnapped during a book launch in Kenya at the weekend, transferred to Uganda and is being held at a military jail
November 20, 2024
This year, Russian missile attacks have knocked out about 50% of Ukraine's power generation, a major threat as winter looms
November 20, 2024
The United States said it had reopened its embassy in Kyiv late on Wednesday after it had shut for the day due to what it called
November 20, 2024
Vladimir Putin is open to discussing a Ukraine ceasefire deal with Donald Trump but rules out making any major territorial concessions and insists Kyiv abandon
November 20, 2024
South Korea's spy agency says that North Korea has recently supplied additional artillery systems to Russia to support its war efforts against Ukraine
November 20, 2024
Vigils and other events are being held to draw attention to transgender people who have lost their lives due to violence in the past year
November 20, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping and his Brazilian peer Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday upgraded the status of diplomatic relations and
November 20, 2024
Women's health advocates in Africa are worried that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will again invoke the so-called global gag rule, a policy that cuts off U.S. government funding for groups that offer abortion-related services
November 20, 2024
U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed finish, though the modest moves for indexes masked some thrashing underneath the surface
November 20, 2024
Biden administration approves sending anti-personnel mines to Ukraine in another major policy shift
November 20, 2024
Around 10,900 North Korean troops have been deployed to Kursk as part of Russia's airborne unit and marines, with some already participating in battles in
November 20, 2024
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says a deal has been reached for Indonesia to send back a Filipino death-row drug convict, who was nearly executed by firing squad but got a reprieve due to years of pleadings from Manila
November 20, 2024
Commerzbank names new CFO amid UniCredit approach
US watchdog issues final rule to supervise Big Tech payments, digital wallets
Indian opposition calls for Adani probe, Modi's BJP questions timing of US indictment
Sri Lanka's inflation rate drops to minus 0.7% in October
Germany faces high corporate default risk in 2025, Bundesbank says
What will happen to CNBC and MSNBC when they no longer have a corporate connection to NBC News?
Has a waltz written by composer Frederic Chopin been discovered in an NYC museum?
Australian tourist dies after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos, raising toll to 4 including American