President Donald Trump’s top Cabinet officials overseeing national security are expected back on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as questions mount over the swift escalation of U.S. military force and deadly boat strikes in international waters near Venezuela.
President Donald Trump’s top Cabinet officials overseeing national security are headed back to Capitol Hill.
European Union envoys are fine-tuning a plan to use frozen Russian assets as collateral for a massive loan to support Ukraine over the next two years.
Police say suspected militants have opened fire on a police officer guarding a team of polio workers in northwestern Pakistan, killing the officer and a passerby.
China says it will begin imposing anti-dumping duties of up to 19.8% on imports of pork products from the European Union, after a review that could have resulted in tariffs of up to 62.4%.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says peace proposals for U.S. officials to present to Russia could be finalized within days.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and about 30 other countries are expected to approve plans to create a compensation body for damages caused by the Russian invasion.
The victims of a mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach range from a 10-year-old girl with a gentle soul to an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor.
European Union leaders are gathering this week at the end of political year dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Shares are mostly lower in Europe and Asia ahead of the release of U.S. employment and inflation reports that could drive the direction of interest rates.
Australia's federal police commissioner has confirmed that a mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was a terrorist attack inspired by the Islamic State group.
The U.S. military says it has attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people.
President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices.
Chile has become the latest country in Latin America to veer toward the right, electing a deeply conservative veteran politician who has long attracted comparisons to Donald Trump.
Pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai would devote himself to God and his family rather than political activism if he were released.
The Colombian government’s delegation in peace talks with the National Liberation Army or ELN has rejected an “armed strike” that the Marxist rebel group is conducting this week in response to the U.S. military’s naval buildup in the Caribbean.
Leading Jewish groups in the United States are urging all Jewish organizations to ratchet up security at public events following the weekend's mass shooting attack on a Hanukkah celebration on a beach in Australia.
Western and Arab diplomats have toured Lebanon's border with Israel, where Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers are working to end Hezbollah's armed presence.
The two Iowa National Guard members killed in a weekend attack that the U.S. military blamed on the Islamic State group in Syria have been identified.
The government of Trinidad and Tobago says it will allow the U.S. military access to its airports in upcoming weeks as tensions between the United States and Venezuela remain high.
An Austrian appeals court has rejected a request to extradite Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash to the United States.
President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit seeking $10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices.
Serbia’s prosecutor for organized crime has charged a government minister and three others with abuse of position and falsifying of documents related to a luxury real estate project linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Iran’s rial currency has hit a new record low of over 1.3 million to the U.S. dollar, deepening its collapse amid sanctions and regional tensions.
Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest have announced a final list of 35 countries that will take part in the glitzy pop-music gala next year.
In the minutes that followed the first sounds of gunfire Sunday night at Bondi Beach in Sydney, the assault would end the lives of at least 15 people.
Officials suspect a father and son of killing 15 people on a popular Australian beach, shocking a country where gun violence is rare.
The head of Britain’s MI6 spy agency says Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling efforts to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, and is testing the West with tactics that fall “just below the threshold of war.”.
Authorities say Pakistan has launched the final nationwide anti-polio vaccination campaign of the year, aiming to protect 45 million children after more than two dozen cases of the potentially paralyzing disease were reported.
Dense toxic smog has blanketed New Delhi, pushing air pollution levels to their worst levels in weeks and disrupting travel.
U.S. officials say Washington has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia’s nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely this weekend.
The Islamic State group and other militant organizations are experimenting with artificial intelligence as a tool to boost recruitment and refine their operations.
Australian leaders have promised to immediately overhaul already-tough gun control laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
A Hanukkah celebration on warm summer's evening at Sydney's Bondi Beach became a scene of horror on Sunday when gunmen opened fire, causing chaos and fear.
Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, has been convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court.
Many U.S. consumers say they’ve noticed higher than usual prices for holiday gifts in recent months, according to a a December poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path.
A bystander seen in a widely circulated video disarming a gunman during a deadly shooting rampage at a popular Australian beach is being heralded as a hero who saved lives.
A Syrian security guard who attacked and killed three U.S. citizens in Syria had joined the internal security forces two months earlier.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski has been released from a Belarusian prison after more than four years.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called an attack on a Hanukkah celebration at a Sydney beach that killed at least 11 people an act of antisemitism and terrorism.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized Australia's leader, linking calls for a Palestinian state to rising antisemitism.
Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court has ratified the final results of last month’s parliamentary elections.
Hamas has confirmed the death of a top commander in Gaza, a day after Israel said it had killed Raed Saad in a strike outside Gaza City.
Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party has voted to dissolve after more than 30 years of activism.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed willingness to drop Ukraine's NATO bid in exchange for Western security guarantees.
A child is one of at least 15 people killed in an attack in Australia at one of the world’s most famous beaches.
Thailand's government reports a rocket attack from Cambodia on Sunday killed a 63-year-old villager.
Chile’s ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast has secured a stunning victory in the presidential election, defeating the candidate of the center-left governing coalition and setting the stage for the country’s most right-wing government in 35 years of democracy.
A Hong Kong court convicted pro-democracy former media mogul Jimmy Lai of conspiracies to commit sedition and collusion with foreign forces in a case that marks how much the semi-autonomous Chinese city has changed since Beijing began a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent five years ago.
Chinese demand for foreign luxury cars is waning as customers opt for more affordable Chinese brand models.
Belarusian authorities have freed 123 prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figures Maria Kolesnikova and Viktar Babaryka, as part of a deal with Washington that lifted U.S. sanctions on the Eastern European country’s vital fertilizer exports.
President Donald Trump says “there will be very serious retaliation” after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in an attack in Syria that the United States blames on the Islamic State group.
Belarusian authorities have released Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova from prison.
Lionel Messi’s much-hyped tour of India has gotten off to a rocky start with angry fans throwing bottles and attempting to vandalize a stadium after many of them failed to get more than just a glimpse of their hero.
Fighting along the Thai-Cambodian border has forced hundreds of thousands of Thai villagers to flee since Monday.
Researchers have dated vertebrae from a massive prehistoric shark thought to have ruled the waves off northern Australia back to further in the Cretaceous period than was previously known.
U.N. experts warn that the treason trial of South Sudan’s suspended vice president is further eroding a 2018 peace agreement he signed with President Salva Kiir.
The Treasury Department is targeting businesses used to send money abroad as President Donald Trump's administration ramps up investigations into fraud within Minnesota's Somali community.
A U.S. Navy admiral who oversees military operations in Latin America has handed off command responsibilities as scrutiny increases over the Trump administration’s deadly strikes on alleged drug boats in the region.
Japanese journalist Shiori Ito's documentary, “Black Box Diaries,” has finally premiered in Japan after facing legal hurdles.
Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a significant fresco of Jesus as the "Good Shepherd" from Anatolia's early Christian era.
New footage shows six Israeli hostages celebrating Hanukkah while held captive in Gaza months before they were killed.
A Danish intelligence agency report has warned that the United States is using its economic power to assert its will and threaten military force against both allies and adversaries.
A senior Kremlin official says Russian police and the National Guard will stay on in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas even if a peace settlement ends the war.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has hosted a U.S. envoy for talks in Minsk, the latest step in the isolated leader’s effort to improve ties with the West.
Russia’s Central Bank says it has filed a lawsuit against Belgian financial institution Euroclear.
Eastern Orthodoxy in the U.S. is experiencing a surge in converts, partly due to online content.
Former Iraqi President Barham Salih is on track to become the next head of the U.N. refugee agency.
An official says Germany has summoned the Russian ambassador following accusations of sabotage, cyberattacks and election interference.
King Charles III says that early diagnosis and treatment will allow doctors to reduce his cancer treatment in the new year.
The European Union has indefinitely frozen Russia’s assets in Europe to ensure that Hungary and Slovakia, both with Moscow-friendly governments, can’t prevent the billions of euros from being used to support Ukraine.
Australian accident investigators have released dramatic images showing a skydiver's parachute entangled on an airplane's tail, leaving him dangling at 15,000 feet.
Chile is heading into a high-stakes presidential runoff defined by sharply contrasting visions of the country’s recent past and visions for its future.
International Criminal Court judges and prosecutors are trying to live and work under the same financial and travel restrictions brought against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Osama bin Laden.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has walked away after a scheduled appointment at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office after a federal judge ordered that officials could not detain him.
At long last, vindication has arrived for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was as capable of breathing life into Italy’s grand theaters as into gritty Hollywood films.
Honduras’ governing LIBRE party experienced a spectacular collapse in the presidential election, going from more than 50% of the vote four years ago to less than 20% this time.
Global online forum Reddit has filed a court challenge to Australia’s world-first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world’s most popular social media platforms.
