Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has welcomed a recent decision to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank

A judge in Italy has ordered trial for family members of an 18-year-old Pakistani woman who disappeared last year after refusing an arranged marriage and allegedly was slain

Sweden and Finland have pushed ahead with their bid to join NATO even as Turkey insists it won’t let the previously non-aligned Nordic countries into the alliance because of their alleged support for Kurdish militants

The Associated Press and the PBS series “Frontline” have independently verified that Russia has destroyed or damaged at least 56 Ukrainian schools in a manner that indicates a possible war crime

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has thrown a spanner in the works of Sweden and Finland’s historic decisions to seek NATO membership

The British government says it will pass a law to scrap parts of the trade treaty it signed with the European Union less than two years ago

Zimbabwe is seeking international support to be allowed to sell its stockpile.

Final results in Lebanon's weekend parliamentary elections show that the militant Hezbollah group and its allies have lost the majority of parliament seats they had held since 2018

Human rights activists have asked the Philippine Supreme Court to block Congress from proclaiming Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as the next president, alleging that he lied when he said he had not been convicted of any crime

Doctors have prescribed a wheelchair, cane and physical therapy.

Sri Lanka’s governing party has defeated a move in Parliament to urgently debate a motion that would censure President Gotabaya Rajapaksa for the nation’s worst economic crisis

Hundreds of Ukrainian fighters left the vast steel plant in Mariupol where they mounted a dogged last stand and turned themselves over to Russian hands

Pakistan's military says security forces have killed two local Pakistani Taliban commanders in a shootout in a former militant stronghold in the country's northwest

Nigeria’s financial crimes agency has arrested the country’s accountant-general, accusing him of diverting government funds worth $192.4 million

Clashes in the Libyan capital of Tripoli have forced one of the country’s rival prime ministers to abort his attempt to seat his government there

Members of Australia’s Filipino community have protested outside a Melbourne apartment building where the Philippines’ presumptive next president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., is reportedly visiting his son

German prosecutors have sought a five-year prison sentence for a 101-year-old man who is on trial for his alleged role as a Nazi SS guard at a concentration camp during World War II

Finland's Parliament overwhelmingly approves the country's NATO bid

Schools and government offices have closed in the Iranian capital and elsewhere in the country after yet another sandstorm blanketed Tehran

The land borders between Spain and Morocco at Spain’s North African enclave cities of Ceuta and Melilla have reopened after being closed for more than two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic and later a diplomatic crisis between the two countries

Performers from California rock band Eagles of Death Metal are testifying in a Paris court about the night Islamic State extremists stormed their concert at the Bataclan theater