The United Nations reports record-breaking numbers of over 100 million people displaced worldwide after fleeing conflict zones, persecution and human rights violations.
Russian military forces attacked the Ukrainian town of Borodyanka from the air and from the ground. Damage can be seen all over the town. Local authorities say at least 150 people were killed with 41 locals still missing
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the war in Ukraine is providing proof that doing business with authoritarians in Russia or China poses risks for Western security
The European Commission president denounced Moscow for targeting Ukrainian grain warehouses and other key infrastructure. Russian forces pushed toward a key eastern city, where at least four people were killed in an artillery attack.
Iranian media say the death toll from the collapse of a commercial building still under construction in southwestern Iran has reached 11, after more bodies were retrieved from the rubble in the city of Abadan
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, delivered a court address calling Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine a “stupid war”
South Africa’s neutral stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine will be a major topic of conversation as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets Tuesday with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, to end his three-nation tour of Africa
President Joe Biden at the Quad Summit clarified the U.S. strategy toward a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan, saying the "strategic ambiguity" has not changed.
Tokyo — President Joe Biden told fellow Indo-Pacific leaders assembled for a four-country summit Tuesday that they were navigating "a dark hour in our shared history" due to Russia's brutal war on Ukraine and he urged the group to make greater efforts to stop Vladimir Putin's aggression.
A veteran Russian diplomat to the U.N. Office at Geneva says he handed in his resignation before sending out a scathing letter to foreign colleagues inveighing against the “aggressive war unleashed” by President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine
Sri Lanka received a first shipment of a $16 million humanitarian aid package from neighboring India to help mitigate severe shortages caused by the country’s devastating economic crisis
Istories editor Roman Anin says Vladimir Putin was encouraged to invade Ukraine by the former President Viktor Yanukovych's entourage, noting they wanted to gain power and money for intelligence work.
Dutch police on Monday said they had received dozens of leads after using deepfake technology to bring to life a teenager to appeal for witnesses almost two decades after his murder.
A leading adviser to the World Health Organization described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as "a random event" that might be explained by risky sexual behavior at two recent mass events in Europe.
The head of the U.N.’s World Food Program is telling billionaires it’s “time to step up” as the global threat of food insecurity rises because of Russia’s war in Ukraine
Speaking to the World Economic Forum, President Volodymyr Zelensky called for tougher sanctions against Moscow and safe corridors for Ukrainian grain exports.
U.S. President Joe Biden has met with families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to show his support for their efforts to win the return of their loved ones
A French government spokeswoman says there will be “zero tolerance” for sexual misconduct by members of French President Emmanuel Macron’s newly named government
Charities running migrant rescue ships in the Mediterranean faced a pre-trial hearing in Sicily Saturday over alleged collusion with human traffickers after a controversial probe that involved mass wiretapping.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is calling for “maximum” sanctions against Russia during a virtual speech at the World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland
President Joe Biden said that he would send U.S. troops to defend Taiwan if China invades the island nation in a similar way that Russia invaded Ukraine.
The Philippine coast guard says a ferry carrying more than 130 people caught fire while approaching a northeastern province and many people escaped by jumping into the sea
A ferry carrying more than 130 people caught fire Monday while approaching a northeastern Philippine province, killing at least seven people while most passengers and crewmembers were rescued, the coast guard said.
An Indigenous migrant who was accused of kidnapping and jailed in a northern Mexico border city has returned to her homeland of Guatemala as a free woman after spending more than seven years in prison without a sentence
Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, a senior member of Iran's infamous Revolutionary Guard, was gunned down outside of his home in Tehran on Sunday by a unidentified man on a motorbike.