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Biden and Netanyahu trade barbs over plan to weaken Israeli courts
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Israel's embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu escalated a rare public dispute with US President Joe Biden on Tuesday, rejecting "pressure" from...
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Netanyahu is backed into a corner. Here's what he may do next
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his decision to delay a controversial plan to weaken the country's judiciary on Monday, he in...
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UBS brings back Sergio Ermotti as CEO to oversee Credit Suisse rescue
UBS is bringing back its former chief executive, Sergio Ermotti, to manage the hugely complex and risky task of completing the bank's emergency takeov...
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Ghana's president softens country's stance on draconian anti-LGBTQ bill as Kamala Harris visits
Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has said that "substantial elements" of a draconian anti-LGBTQ bill being considered by its parliament "have been mo...
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'History in the making': UN poised to take unprecedented vote on the climate crisis
Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu on Wednesday is poised to win a historic vote at the United Nations that would call on the world's highest court to i...
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Taiwan's leader departs for New York to start Central American trip
Taiwan has every right to "connect with the world," its President Tsai Ing-wen declared Wednesday as she embarked on a diplomatic mission to Central A...
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King Charles III to travel to Germany for first overseas visit as monarch
King Charles III's first overseas state visit will finally get underway on Wednesday when the British monarch lands in Germany with the Queen Consort ...
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Taliban arrests prominent girls' education activist as repressive clampdown continues
A prominent activist for girls' education in Afghanistan was arrested by the Taliban on Monday, according to an official, the latest step in its repre...
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Myanmar junta dissolves Suu Kyi's party as election deadline passes
Myanmar's military government has dissolved the ousted ruling party of former leader Aung San Suu Kyi and 39 other parties, state media announced on T...
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As North Korea ramps up missile tests, US and South Korean troops practice assaulting a beach
North Korea has been building up a ballistic missile arsenal on the stated premise that it needs to deter an attack on it by US and South Korean force...
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How a European country plans rail revolution
In the Czech countryside, not far from Prague, a ghostly white train is speeding around and around a huge loop of track.
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France braces for anti-pension reform protests
Protesters on the tracks at a Paris rail station. Smoke bombs let off at Biarritz airport. Anger at French President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms...
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Fencers urge IOC to uphold Russia sanctions
More than 300 active and former fencers have written to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) urging the organization to uphold sanctions against ...
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Messi statue to stand next to Maradona's, Pelé's
Lionel Messi stepped out of Diego Maradona's shadow by leading Argentina to World Cup victory last year and a statue of the diminutive forward will st...
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Politicians of South Asian descent set to lead Scotland, Britain and Ireland with Yousaf victory
When Humza Yousaf took his oath of allegiance in Scottish parliament in 2016, he wore a gold embroidered sherwani -- a traditional South Asian jacket ...
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At least 37 migrants killed in fire at Mexico's migration office in Ciudad Juarez
At least 37 people died after a fire at a migration center in Mexico's northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state said in a statement earl...
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China gave huge loans to Belt and Road countries. Now it's spending billions to bail them out
For the past decade, China has lent massive sums to governments across Asia, Africa and Europe, growing its global influence through its Belt and Road...
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Hong Kong's first protest in 3 years shows how the city has changed
With numbered tags around their neck, a small group of 80 demonstrators took part in Hong Kong's first authorized protest in three years on Sunday -- ...
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Russia stages training exercise near Japan a week after country's leader made a surprise visit to Ukraine.
Russia's Pacific Fleet fired a pair of supersonic missiles at a mock target in waters off Japan's coast on Tuesday morning, the Russian Ministry of De...
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Nearly 200 Rohingya people land by boat in Indonesia's Aceh
More than 180 Rohingya Muslims landed in Indonesia's Aceh province on Monday, officials said, the latest among hundreds who have fled by boat from des...
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Elian Gonzalez's new chapter as a Cuban lawmaker
More than two decades after he was found clinging to an inner tube in the Straits of Florida, Elián González is taking on his most high profile role s...
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Lebanon reverses decision on Daylight Saving, amid confusion on two different timezones
Lebanon's government has walked back a controversial decision to delay winter clock changes by a month, after last week's announcement by caretaker Pr...
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Humza Yousaf wins race to replace Sturgeon as Scotland's next leader
Scottish nationalists picked Humza Yousaf to be the country's next leader on Monday after a bitterly fought contest that exposed deep divisions in his...
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How the Fed's latest rate increase will affect your bank savings
Banking has been top of mind for many people in the wake of some surprise bank failures and moves by US regulators to boost confidence in the financia...
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Commercial real estate is in trouble. Why you should be paying attention
Economists are growing concerned about the $20 trillion commercial real estate (CRE) industry.
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Myanmar junta throws huge military parade days after new US sanctions
Myanmar's ruling military paraded an arsenal of weapons in the capital Naypyidaw on Monday, in a grand display of force days after the United States i...
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Nearly 8 million driver license numbers and passport numbers stolen in Australia
Digital payments and lending firm Latitude Holdings said on Monday that 7.9 million Australian and New Zealand driver license numbers were stolen in a...
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The hotel shaped like two gigantic swords
In Qatar, a country where the subway has a business class compartment and Friday brunch is a competitive sport, opulence is a mere baseline.
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Japan wants 85% of male workers to take paternity leave. But fathers are too afraid to take it
A child riding on his father's shoulders smiles as they stroll through a park lined with yellow autumn-touched leaves -- that is the typical image of ...
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North Korea launches at least two unidentified ballistic missile into waters off eastern Korean peninsula
North Korea launched at least one unidentified ballistic missile into the waters off the east coast of the Korean peninsula on Monday morning local ti...
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England hands Ukraine defeat on emotional night at Wembley Stadium
The sight of Ukrainian flags flying along Wembley Way -- the road approaching the iconic Wembley Stadium -- took on extra significance Sunday as Ukrai...
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Argentina FA training facility renamed after Lionel Messi
The Argentina national team's training facility has been renamed after talismanic captain Lionel Messi in recognition of his World Cup heroics and sta...
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Wagner in 'full control' of AZOM plant in Bakhmut, reports Russian state media
Russia's private military group Wagner has taken "full control" of the AZOM metallurgical plant in the north of the city of Bakhmut, according to vide...
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Israeli defense minister breaks ranks and calls for halt to judicial overhaul
Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has become the first government minister to call for a halt in controversial plans to change the country's judi...
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At least 19 migrants die as boat sinks off Tunisia
At least 19 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a h...
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Pope Francis expands Catholic Church sexual abuse law to cover lay leaders
Pope Francis has updated a 2019 church law governing clerical sexual abuse and extended it to include accountability for Catholic lay leaders of Vatic...
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Daylight savings row leaves Lebanon on brink of two timezones
Already facing one of the world's worst economic crises, the Lebanese people could soon face a new challenge -- two different timezones.
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'I am not scared': Disqualified Gandhi will continue questioning Modi
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday he had been disqualified from parliament because he has been asking Prime Minister Narendra Mod...
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Suspect in Haitian president's assassination accepts plea deal in Florida
A suspect in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, who was killed in his bedroom in July of 2021, accepted a plea agreement from US fe...
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Parthenon fragments returned by the Vatican go on display in Greece
The Vatican has returned three fragments of the Parthenon sculptures kept by the Vatican for centuries to Greece.
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A threat to democracy or much-needed reform? Israel's judicial overhaul explained
For months hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been taking to the streets across the country to regularly protest far-reaching changes to the Israe...
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The far out, far-right plot that Germany is still trying to unravel
An extremist and until recently almost unheard-of network in Germany is back in the spotlight after police carried out nationwide raids against it.
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Bayern Munich fires manager Julian Nagelsmann
Bayern Munich announced Friday it has fired club manager Julian Nagelsmann and will appoint Thomas Tuchel to the post, effective immediately.
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Why the Syrian drone strikes and US retaliation may yet be a big deal
The US has conducted an airstrike in Syria against what it said were Iranian-affiliated facilities after a suspected Iranian drone struck a facility h...
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World Athletics regulations on transgender women athletes risk human rights violations, rights groups say
Trans rights advocates have warned sports governing bodies that "blanket bans" on transgender women from competing in women's categories risk "violati...
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What the banking crisis means for mortgage rates
Mortgage rates have taken would-be buyers on a ride this year — and it's only March.
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Deutsche Bank, UBS stocks sink as European banking crisis fear returns
Europe's banking stocks tumbled Friday in a sign that investors are still nervous that the recent crises at some banks could spill over into the wider...
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Netanyahu acted illegally by getting involved in judicial overhaul, says Israel's attorney general
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acted illegally by announcing Thursday that he would involve himself directly in his government's moves to ...
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King Charles state visit to France postponed amid violent pension protests
King Charles's state visit to France has been postponed amid planned protests planned next week over the French government's controversial pension ref...
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Huge French pension reform protests give way to fiery overnight clashes
More than a million people took to the streets across France on Thursday with protests turning violent in some areas as demonstrators voiced their fur...
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Interpol confirms arrest of crypto fugitive Do Kwon in Montenegro
Interpol says a man arrested in Montenegro is Kwon Do-hyeong, also known as Do Kwon, the disgraced founder of a collapsed crypto company who is wanted...
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Trudeau lays out China approach ahead of Biden meeting
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau laid out a three-pronged vision of engagement, competition and confrontation with China in a CNN interview on T...
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Israel passes law shielding Netanyahu from being removed amid protests over judicial changes
The Israeli parliament on Thursday passed a law that would limit the ways a sitting prime minister can be declared unfit for office as part of a packa...
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Five big takeaways from the Fed's extraordinary meeting
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter percentage point on Wednesday as it attempts to fight stubbornly high inflation while addressin...
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Global markets mixed after US Fed raises rates by a quarter-point
European and Asian markets were mixed during Thursday trade as investors digested the decision by the US Federal Reserve to raise its main interest ra...
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Swiss central bank says crisis halted as it hikes interest rates
Switzerland's banking crisis has been halted, the country's central bank said Thursday as it hiked interest rates for the fourth time in a bid to cont...
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What to do with your money now that the Fed just raised rates for the ninth time
After two weeks of banking turmoil, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday continued its bid to beat down inflation by raising its key interest rate again, ...
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French unions hold first national strike since government rammed through pension reform
France's powerful unions are coming out in force for a nationwide strike Thursday in a rejection of a controversial retirement age reform that the gov...
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Taiwan recalls ambassador from Honduras, prepares to lose another diplomatic ally to China
Taiwan announced Thursday it will recall its ambassador to Honduras as ties between the two worsen, with the Central American nation preparing to swit...
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India's Rahul Gandhi found guilty of defamation, given two-year sentence
A court in western India found opposition leader Rahul Gandhi guilty of defamation on Thursday for a speech he made in 2019 in which he referred to th...
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Beijing's population has declined for the first time in 19 years
Beijing, the sprawling Chinese capital and one of the world's biggest cities, saw its population drop last year for the first time in 19 years as the ...
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Haiti soccer sexual abuse scandal: Impending defamation lawsuit could cost journalist $64,700 if he loses. He says he'll 'never give up'
An investigative journalist who detailed allegations of sexual abuse and harassment against the former Haitian Football Federation (FHF) president is ...
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Question revealed for Australia's first referendum in 24 years
Australians have learned the question they'll be asked later this year in the country's first referendum in 24 years, a vote deemed so significant tha...
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Canada sees record population growth in 2022 from immigration
Canada saw record population growth in 2022, with immigration accounting for the vast majority of the 1.05 million new residents.
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UN and US join chorus of condemnation against Uganda's hardline anti-LGBT bill
The United Nations and United States on Wednesday added to international outrage over a hardline bill passed by Ugandan lawmakers that criminalizes si...
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The war in Yemen could get even more fierce as Saudi Arabia and Iran reconcile
A surprise agreement by regional archenemies Saudi Arabia and Iran this month has raised hopes that the Saudi war in Yemen may come to an end, after m...
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Global water crisis could 'spiral out of control' due to overconsumption and climate change, UN report warns
The world is facing a looming global water crisis that threatens to "spiral out of control" as increased demand for water and the intensifying impacts...
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Wall Street is thirsty for its next big investment opportunity: The West's vanishing water
Situated in the Sonoran Desert near the Arizona-California border is the tiny rural town of Cibola -- home to roughly 300 people, depending on the sea...
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UK inflation rises to 10.4% as food prices soar
UK consumer prices jumped by 10.4% in February compared with a year ago, as food inflation hit its highest level in more than 45 years, and as the cos...
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The banking meltdown may have done the Fed's work for it
Federal Reserve officials have a difficult path ahead of them. They still have work to do to bring inflation down, but their efforts have been complic...
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What to expect from the Fed meeting as Powell faces a legacy-defining moment
The Federal Reserve and its chairman, Jerome Powell, are facing a legacy-defining moment as their two-day monetary policy meeting concludes on Wednesd...
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