Belgian authorities call the U.S. ambassador's intervention in the case of three Jewish religious figures "dangerous disinformation."

For the Ukrainian public, the idea of giving up territory for peace is anathema – unless security against future Russian aggression is guaranteed.

Like a shock to the system, hockey at the Olympics goes from nobody getting eliminated in group play to a single-elimination knockout round until one team is left standing. It's Game 7 every time. “The anxiety just goes up a little bit,

Last week Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi won a landslide election that she hopes will allow her to move her nation's policies hard right. On Wednesday she will be reappointed as prime minister by the parliament and form her second Cabinet.

American sentenced to four years in Russian jail for allegedly trying to smuggle Kalashnikov rifle stocks through Moscow airport security checkpoint.

Sri Lankan legislators overwhelmingly voted Tuesday to scrap their pensions, in a bid to fulfill a key preelection campaign promise by the ruling Marxist-leaning government following anger over the country's economic crisis.

Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Oscar-nominated cowriter of “It Was Just an Accident,” has been released from an Iranian prison 17 days after his arrest, according to local media reports. Mahmoudian was arrested in Tehran shortly after signing a statement condemning Islamic Republic leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the regime’s violent crackdown on

Iran and the U.S. traded threats and warnings even as negotiators sat down to discuss a deal to avert a war, but Tehran says "we now have a clearer path ahead."