U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says an "overwhelming majority" of Americans know that climate change is happening and want the U.S. to honor its commitments under the Paris climate agreement.
Israel's parliament has given preliminary approval to a proposal that would legalize hundreds of homes built in West Bank settlements that sit on private Palestinian land.
The European Union has unveiled plans for a new system of security checks on travelers permitted to enter Europe without visas in an effort to crack down on extremists.
A Cairo criminal court has sentenced an Egyptian policeman to life in prison for the killing of a street vendor in an incident that ignited demonstrations against police brutality.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has asked his Japanese counterpart to try to convince U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to support the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement when they meet in New York this week.
On an August morning, a taxi driver in northwestern Yemen hugged his kids and jokingly told his family, "Forgive me if I don't come back." It was his way of laughing off the danger of driving in a country where airstrikes can hit any road at any time.
Kenya's interior minister says the government has extended by six months its deadline for sending home at least 280,000 Somali refugees to close the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya's east.
The European Union is warning eight countries including Italy, Portugal and Spain that their budget plans for next year might not comply with the rules governing the euro single currency.
In a remote valley near the Arctic Circle where the wind whips the coarse yellow grass, China and Iceland are preparing to look to the sky — and a shared future.
South Korean prosecutors are questioning a former vice sports minister over an explosive political scandal that's threatening Park Geun-hye's presidency and could spill over to preparations for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Britain's Prince William on Wednesday urged Vietnamese leaders to step up the fight against trafficking in wildlife species, the main theme of his first visit to the communist country.
Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem has accused British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson of giving Britons an unachievable vision of the U.K.'s future outside the European Union.
Officials at a chain of international schools in Pakistan say that 400 Turkish nationals affiliated with the schools have been ordered to leave the country within 72 hours.