Iceland summons U.S. envoy over Trump map depicting it in stars and stripes
A Trump post showed the country, along with Canada, Cuba, Mexico and Greenland, covered in red, white and blue, and labeled “United States of America....
Two Renoir paintings are missing after French museum heist
The mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer, on the French Riviera, said that two of the four works had been recovered but that the two perpetrators are still being s...
Gulf nations build defenses and aim to bypass Hormuz as Iran war drags on
Remarks by at a regional conference underscored the challenge Washington faces in trying to impose economic pain on Iran while not harming its closest...
U.K. to bar import of goods from West Bank settlements in growing rift with Israel
The expected move marks the starkest break yet from the U.K.’s traditional role as a staunch supporter of Israel and comes in response to Israeli acti...
Rubio enjoyed major support among Venezuelans. Then came Trump’s oil deal.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will visit friendly governments in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. But his support for the Venezuela oil deal is rankling s...
A German politician with a MAGA touch lifts his nationalist party to victory
Ulrich Siegmund and his Alternative for Germany party sent tremors through establishment political circles in Berlin, Brussels and other capitals acro...
Alternative for Germany looks for big boost in regional elections in Germany
The nationalist, anti-immigrant party known as AfD, has been labeled “extremist” by German authorities, but is running strong in the eastern state of ...
U.S. envoys to meet Putin in Moscow, pressing Russia-Ukraine peace talks
The U.S. envoys are expected to meet the Russian and Ukrainian presidents in turn. The effort comes as negotiations have stalled with little sign of a...
The U.N. backed a map that shows Africa true to size. The U.S. was sole objector.
The U.S. was the only country to vote against the U.N. resolution, which encourages the use of an “Equal Earth” map. The U.S. described it as a “radic...
U.S. Embassy in Havana issues health alert as sanctions limit imports to Cuba
The embassy issued a health alert Friday warning of a “significant increase in diarrheal illnesses across Cuba” caused by contaminated water and inade...
Water crisis in Israel raises fears over impact of Gaza sewage
Five of Israel’s six desalinization plants are offline. Untreated wastewater from Gaza’s destroyed sewage system could be part of the problem, experts...
Trump’s huge Venezuela deal began with a call and a bet on an oilman
Alejandro Betancourt was warned that taking on the U.S. government as a business partner would have costs, but America's backing already is providing ...
After CIA director’s visit to Moscow, Putin escalates Ukraine strikes
The rare trip by CIA chief John Ratcliff failed to persuade Putin to stop the war and may have hardened the Russian's leaders resolve to seek military...
9 days after deadly Nepal floods, 2 men are rescued from tunnel
Video shared by Nepal's authorities showed the moment a man was hauled from a tunnel. Nearly 1,300 people have died after flash floods swept through t...
How a wondrous forest has survived in the heart of Latin America’s largest city
For almost four decades, the Guarani have fought to expand their four-acre territory, Brazil’s smallest officially recognized Indigenous area, to enco...
