Analysis and commentary on current events around the world.
The disappearance of two boys last year has turned the Abdel Aal family’s life into an endless search for answers.
The U.S. dollar weakened sharply Monday against the Japanese yen after U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan's finance minister confirmed both sides had intervened in markets.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a formal order late Sunday terminating President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" to compensate his political allies.
Cuba’s ageing power grid collapsed on Sunday after a weekend of outages and amid US-imposed fuel shortages.
An Indonesian ferry carrying 271 people has caught fire in waters off Madura island, killing at least five people and leaving 41 others unaccounted for, authorities said
A total of 1,000sq km (386sq miles) has burned across Washington state, and some of the fires have not been contained.
US President Trump says new talks with Iran will start Monday ‘in the form of a negotiation’ after calling off attack.
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has officially launched his reelection campaign.
Court cases over new lodges have raised questions about protecting one of Africa’s greatest wildlife spectacles.
US President Donald Trump says helping to bolster the Japanese currency is a sign of friendship.
Footage shows blast victims hurried into a hospital in northwestern Pakistan, after a suicide bombing.
US President Donald Trump says an agreement with Iran is imminent, with negotiations set to begin on Monday.
The US president says Gulf allies and Tehran urged him to delay planned strikes.
A defunct part of a Falcon 9 rocket could slam into the moon at more than 5,000 miles per hour, according to scientists.
Lula seeks to use Bolsonaro family ties with Trump to cast election as fight against submission to foreign interests.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the ongoing war between army chief al-Burhan and RSF commander Dagalo.
Fast-moving wildfires are forcing evacuations across Washington State, US and nearby British Columbia, Canada.
Interfaith volunteers rebuild war-damaged Catholic monastery in Lebanon’s Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh.