Beirut – Syrian rebel forces arrived at the gates of the key city of Hama on Tuesday as their fighting with the military sparked “a large wave of displacement,” a...

President Emmanuel Macron said he thinks the French government can survive a no-confidence vote on Wednesday, when the far-right party of Marine Le Pen is expected to join forces with...

Vietnamese tycoon Truong My Lan has lost her appeal against the death sentence handed down for masterminding the country’s largest-ever fraud scandal, but she can avoid execution if she pays...

Nomura Holdings CEO Kentaro Okuda said Tuesday that he and nine other executives will return some of their pay to take responsibility over an attempted murder and robbery involving a...

THE HAGUE – Russian presidential aircraft and funds were used in a program that took children from occupied Ukrainian territories, stripped them of Ukrainian identity and placed them with Russian...

TURKU, Finland – On Nov. 18, hours after two communication cables were severed in the Baltic Sea, 30 NATO vessels and 4,000 military staff took to the same body of...

Diplomats from 197 countries agreed earlier this month to new rules governing how they can buy and sell credits to neutralize carbon emissions. But while they were deliberating, some of...

Seoul – South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday said he would lift martial law just hours after he imposed it, in a brief and confusing episode in which...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s surprise decision to impose martial law in South Korea for the first time in more than 40 years — and then just as swiftly...