Voting for Turkey's election began internationally as 3.4 million Turkish citizens living abroad were invited to vote. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been in power for two decades.
A prosecutor in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo vowed to search for other missing persons after eight bodies were reportedly found dumped in the tourist hotspot of Cancun.
Denys Shmyhal, the prime minister of Ukraine, wants Pope Francis to help facilitate the return of Ukrainian children from Russia. The children were forcibly taken to Russia.
Iranian forces seized a vessel Thursday in the Gulf of Oman, escalating already fraught tensions in the region surrounding the country's ongoing nuclear program.
China has ramped up its foreign investments in Mexico over the last decade; experts warn there is a financial and political upside for Beijing as U.S. relations with Mexico falter.
A Brazilian federal judge has ordered a temporary suspension of Telegram, a messaging app that has reportedly refused to turn data on far-right users over to authorities.
The takeover of a national health lab by Sudanese fighters does not "dramatically change the existing health threat posture," a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
Crowds continue to gather at Sudan's border with Egypt and the seaport city of Port Sudan after days of fighting between the army and paramilitary forces threatened to push the country into a full-blown civil war.
The Swiss government has approved plans to fund the nation's first official Holocaust memorial, set to be constructed in a "central location" in its capital, Bern.
The trilateral Commission for Environmental Cooperation has recommended opening an investigation into Mexico’s multibillion-dollar tourist train project on the Yucatán peninsula.
Christian mother Izzy Montague is appealing after a court dismissed her lawsuit against a school that allegedly attempted to force her 4-year-old to march in a Pride parade.
After two strong earthquakes rattled New Zealand’s North Island there were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage. More than 22,000 people reported feeling the first quake.
Police said a van carrying 29 people from Syria pushed a patrol car off the road while officers tried to stop it near Germany’s border with Poland. There were no injures reported.
Local authorities in eastern Congo said at least 60 bodies were found in several villages in the North Kivu province. They were killed over several days by rebels from the M23 group.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday that a MiG-31 fighter plane crashed in northern Russia during a training exercise, going down into a "deserted area."
