GUSAU, Nigeria — Gunmen who kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria last week beat them and threatened to shoot them during a forced march into captivity, victims said on Tuesday after they were set free.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon expressed concern on Tuesday about a U.N. report indicating possible reprocessing of nuclear fuel for bombs by North… Read more
WASHINGTON (Los Angeles Times) — The United States and the European Union are jointly imposing sanctions to punish Russia for the poisoning of… Read more
President Joe Biden's administration is moving to put semiconductors, artificial intelligence and next-generation networks at the heart of U.S… Read more
HONG KONG – China’s plan to dramatically reform Hong Kong’s electoral system, expected to be unveiled in a parliamentary session in Beijing st… Read more
BERLIN – The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency on Monday urged that inspections not be used as a "bargaining chip" as Iran, … Read more
WASHINGTON – The United States is focused on “future conduct” of Saudi Arabia and will expect Riyadh to improve its human rights record, a U.S… Read more
BERLIN – The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency on Monday urged that inspections not be used as a "bargaining chip" as Iran, … Read more
JERUSALEM — Israel approved plans on Sunday to offer COVID-19 vaccines to Palestinians with Israeli work permits, a step a rights group said d… Read more
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russia launched its space satellite Arktika-M on Sunday on a mission to monitor the climate and environment in the Arctic a… Read more
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran on Sunday ruled out holding an informal meeting with the United States and other major powers to discuss ways to salvag… Read more
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who survived a chemical poisoning last year that he called a Kremlin attempt to kill him, has begun … Read more
GENEVA (Reuters) — Countries seeking their own COVID-19 vaccine doses are making deals with drug companies that threaten the supply for the gl… Read more
Myanmar police threw stun grenades and fired into the air on Sunday to disperse opponents of military rule, sustaining a sweeping crackdown la… Read more
JANGEBE, Nigeria - Gunmen in Nigeria on Saturday released 27 teenage boys who were kidnapped from their school last week in the north-central … Read more
Foreign workers are leaving Britain at the fastest pace since World War II, presenting a challenge to an economy already roiled by Brexit and … Read more
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria said U.S. air strikes against Iranian-backed militias in the east of the country on Friday were a cowardly act and ur… Read more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler approved an operation to capture or kill murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, acc… Read more
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Thursday directed U.S. military air strikes in eastern Syria against facilities belonging to what the Pent… Read more
The Soviet-era cargo plane rose from a frigid Moscow runway and banked south toward Syria, landing at a Russian air base on the coast several … Read more
A sailor who spent 16 hours floating in the Pacific Ocean has credited a piece of "sea rubbish" for saving his life after he fell overboard fo… Read more
The government is preparing to lift the state of emergency for six prefectures, including Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo, as early as the end of this … Read more
Billions of dollars' worth of drugs have been seized in Europe's largest-ever cocaine bust. Read more
QUITO — Ecuador on Wednesday raised the death toll from riots in four jails to 79, including 18 prisoners who were found dismembered at one si… Read more
TORONTO — A river has won legal rights for the first time in Canadian history, in a move hailed by environmentalists as a new way to protect n… Read more
MEXICO CITY — Scuffles broke out between rival protesters in the southern Mexican city of Iguala on Wednesday amid growing anger over Presiden… Read more
Latin America and the Caribbean, the region where the coronavirus caused the most pronounced economic destruction and more than a quarter of t… Read more
WASHINGTON/OTTAWA — U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sought on Tuesday to turn the page on the Trump era, s… Read more
NEW YORK (Reuters) — British naturalist David Attenborough warned on Tuesday that climate change is the biggest security threat that modern hu… Read more
WASHINGTON — The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on two members of Myanmar's military junta and threatened further actions over the … Read more
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Italy's ambassador to Democratic Republic of Congo was killed on Monday along with his bodyguard and a Wo… Read more
CANBERRA (Reuters) — Australia will quickly deliver the result of a planned independent inquiry into parliament's workplace culture, the gover… Read more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday the United States had begun to communicate with Iran… Read more
WASHINGTON — The World Bank is working with the International Monetary Fund on ways to factor climate change into the negotiations about reduc… Read more
Myanmar police arrested a famous actor wanted for supporting opposition to a Feb. 1 coup, his wife said on Sunday, hours after two people were… Read more
JERUSALEM - The risk of illness from COVID-19 dropped 95.8% among people who received both shots of Pfizer’s vaccine, Israel’s Health Ministry… Read more
DUBAI - Iran is studying a European Union proposal for an informal meeting between current members of Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal and the Unite… Read more
BUENOS AIRES - At his colonial-era estate in central Argentina, Gabriel De Raedemaeker says he's already calculating what parts of his farm he… Read more
Leaders of the Group of Seven major economies are slated to convene virtually Friday, with the pandemic at the top of the agenda. President Jo… Read more
VIENNA/PARIS (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog found uranium particles at two Iranian sites it inspected after months of stonewalling, dip… Read more
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday drew a sharp contrast with the foreign policy of his much-derided predecessor, Donal… Read more
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department unsealed charges Wednesday against three North Korean hacker spies accused of conspiring to steal and exto… Read more
TOKYO - Japan confirmed a new variant of COVID-19, and an infection cluster emerged at a Tokyo immigration facility, presenting new challenges… Read more
TOKYO - The Japanese and U.S. governments agreed Wednesday to extend for one year a special agreement that sets the level of the Japanese shar… Read more
MANILA/SINGAPORE - A clutch of Philippine firms, including newly launched real estate investment trusts (REITs), could make the country Southe… Read more
WASHINGTON — The United States has charged three North Korean computer programmers with a massive hacking spree aimed at stealing more than $1… Read more
MEXICO CITY — Mexico on Wednesday made a plea at the U.N. Security Council for countries to stop hoarding vaccines against COVID-19 as poorer … Read more
BRUSSELS — Pfizer has not yet delivered to the European Union about 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that were due in December, EU officials … Read more
LIMA, Peru — When interim president Francisco Sagasti finally unveiled Peru's first coronavirus vaccine deal last month, Peruvians wearied by … Read more
LONDON — Britain will become the first country to deliberately infect healthy volunteers with the coronavirus, now that the country's ethics b… Read more