More than 1,000 patients have died while waiting for urgent medical evacuation from war-ravaged Gaza in the last year and a ...

Nearly a million young Ukrainians are still living in an eternal lockdown, doing either all or part of their lessons online.

Australia’s leaders agreed on Monday to tougher gun laws after the country’s worst mass shooting in almost three decades saw a father and son open fire on a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach, killing 15 ...

The seizure of an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast this week comes after long-standing tensions between Washington and Caracas, starting with US sanctions in 2006 and most recently strikes against ...

As US funding for global health collapses, rival powers are stepping in — and the world’s pandemic defenses are weakening. When health systems sag, outbreaks spread, instability grows, and adversaries ...

Incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, who is vying for a second term, has scored a big win in general elections, sources close to the premier said on Wednesday. Iraqis on Tuesday ...

Despite major gains in education and reducing poverty in recent decades, entrenched inequalities are eroding trust in institutions and democratic systems around the world, the UN warned Tuesday.

Many people imagine that countries with authoritarian regimes are horrifying places, with populations ruled by terror and indoctrinated to blind obedience by some ...

One thing that nearly all observers of the American economy (and other developed countries around the world) can agree on is that income inequality has increased considerably in recent decades. The ...

There’s a good reason half the country didn’t believe President Donald J. Trump when he claimed he didn’t conspire with the Russians; the claim was mixed in with too many lies on too many important ...

The political status of Puerto Rico is a long-standing issue that requires urgent action. The island, an unincorporated territory of the United States, is neither a sovereign nation nor a U.S. state.