When Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as a category 5 storm, it tore through the country’s agricultural center, demolishing crops and killing livestock. Now, as aid flows into the country, concerns are ...

Game 7 of the World Series stretched past midnight into Sunday in Toronto, and has passed into baseball lore as one of the greatest endings of one of the greatest World Series ever.Japan’s attention — ...

One year after a deadly railway station disaster in Serbia that killed 16 people, families of the victims are still waiting for accountability. Tens of thousands took to the streets of the city of ...

The Trump administration has decided to cap refugee admissions to a record low of 7,500 resettlement slots, prioritizing white Afrikaners from South Africa. Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, head of Global ...

Northern parts of Afghanistan were hit with a strong earthquake overnight Monday. At least 20 people were killed and many injured, according to local officials. This is the second time since August ...

When Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as a Category 5 storm, it tore through the country’s agricultural center, demolishing crops and killing livestock. Now, as aid flows into the country, concerns are ...

Today in a ceremony hidden from public view Tanzania swore in Samia Hassan for a second term as president. She won with a landslide 98% of the vote in an election that has sparked nationwide protests, ...

The Maldives becomes the only country to adopt a law banning tobacco sales to people born after a specific date. The measure went into effect over the weekend, and means that anyone born after Jan. 1, ...

When the Intercontinental Hotel first opened its doors in Kabul in 1969, Afghanistan was embracing modernity. In the decades that followed, it kept those doors open through a Soviet occupation, civil ...

A few thousand people have arrived at the Tawila refugee camp in Sudan, after escaping harrowing violence in the RSF-controlled city of el-Fasher, many of them unaccompanied children. Also, ...

Letters written on Aug. 15, 1916, by two Australian soldiers serving in France during World War I have been discovered more than a century later. One of the letter-writers survived the war; the other ...

In many ways, Koichi Kitabatake is just like any other runner preparing for Sunday’s New York City Marathon: He’s nervous for the big race but plans to draw energy from crowds of spectators to keep ...