An environmental and indigenous rights activist in Honduras has been killed four months after the slaying of award-winning environmentalist Berta Caceres stirred international outrage.
Shell says it has lifted force majeure on the export of Nigeria's benchmark Bonny Light crude oil almost two months after militant attacks on a pipeline.
A woman who was stabbed and left for dead by Palestinian terrorists who butchered her American friend in 2010 said Wednesday she was enraged by a government TV report that labeled one of the killers a “heroic prisoner.”
An explosion and fire on a train wounded at least 21 people Thursday in Taiwan's capital city of Taipei, local media reported, as police said a pre-made explosive that looked like a firecracker triggered the blast.
A state-owned Russian television station on Thursday broadcast video of what it claimed to be a brawl between a U.S. diplomat and a Russian security guard at an entrance to the American Embassy in Moscow.
The Israeli prime minister's office says pieces of wreckage believed to be from the EgyptAir plane that crashed in May have been found on the coast of Israel.
The number of American travelers to Cuba rose 84 percent for the first half of the year compared with the same January-June period in 2015, authorities said Thursday.
The man who led efforts to impeach Brazil's suspended President Dilma Rousseff resigned on Thursday as speaker of the lower house of congress, but kept the congressional seat that could help shield him from corruption charges.
The Anglican reverend known as the “Vicar of Baghdad” after defiantly remaining at his Iraqi parish even as war raged all around him a decade ago is being investigated by the United Kingdom for allegedly paying ransom to ISIS to free sex slaves.
A hospital has been evacuated after two explosions, believed to have been sparked by gas cylinders, with the facility in southern France going up in flames.
NATO'S chief told The Associated Press Thursday that failure is simply not an option in meeting the myriad threats that now menace the U.S.-led alliance.
North Korea said Friday that new U.S. sanctions against the country amounted to a “declaration of a war” and vowed to take strong retaliatory measures, the AFP reports.
The lawyer for a homeless man accused of pushing an American student into the Tiber River in Rome says surveillance footage shows the teen tried to swim a few strokes after falling in but was carried off by rapids and quickly disappeared.
Given that Roger Federer already owns seven Wimbledon championships, it really should not shock anyone that he made it back to the semifinals for the 11th time.