Desi Bouterse, the former dictator and later elected president of Suriname, who became a fugitive of justice for the killing ...

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet crashed on Wednesday in western Kazakhstan, killing 38 of the 67 people on board, ...

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet crashed on Wednesday in western Kazakhstan, with 35 people feared dead, officials said.

Pope Francis called Wednesday for "arms to be silenced" around the world in his Christmas address, appealing for peace in the ...

Syria's new authorities torched a large stockpile of drugs on Wednesday, two security officials told AFP, including one ...

Japanese foreign minister Takeshi Iwaya on Wednesday raised "serious concerns" over China's military buildup as he met ...

New Vietnamese internet rules requiring Facebook and TikTok to verify user identities and hand over data to authorities came ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday denounced an "inhumane" attack from Russia, which launched dozens of ...

Some 3,000 homeless people sat down for a festive Christmas charity dinner on Tuesday in the center of Buenos Aires, at a ...

Pope Francis opened the "Holy Door" of St Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve on Tuesday, launching the Jubilee year of ...

A leading US government agency that tracks foreign disinformation has terminated its operations, the State Department said ...

AFP photographer Sameer al-Doumy never dreamed he would be able to return to the hometown in Syria that he escaped through a ...