Last December, after more than a decade of fighting, forces opposing President Bashar al-Assad ousted him from power. Some ...

Summer is in full swing in India and many cities are suffering scorching heat, fueled in part by climate change. In the second of a two-part series looking at the dangers of extreme heat in India, ...

This year’s odds on favorite to win the massive Eurovision Song Contest is a group named KAJ. They’re representing Sweden, but they are from Finland. Their song is called “Bara Bada Bastu.” That title ...

A new gas deal is bringing the governments of Turkey and Turkmenistan closer together. That’s making Turkmen living in Turkey nervous, as they fear a rise in deportations of people who criticize their ...

The resume looks legit. A software developer appears to be based in the US or Europe with the skills needed to assist a major Western firm. The catch is the IT worker is actually working for North ...

Russian and Ukrainian officials are meeting in Istanbul for highly anticipated negotiations about the war in Ukraine. This is the first direct diplomatic meeting between Russia and Ukraine since the ...

After the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu back in November, the Trump administration announced sanctions against the court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, and its officials, ...

Medieval scholars in the UK have identified a rare original copy of the Magna Carta. Now seen as a landmark legal document in the Western democratic tradition, the 800-year-old charter reined in the ...

Latvia’s Defense Intelligence and Security Service is warning local hikers that strangers who cross their paths might be Russian spies, not curious tourists or out-of-place woodsmen. Hosts Marco ...

Climate change is not only impacting the earth and its environment, but it is also impacting people’s mental health. “Eco-anxiety” and “climate anxiety” are not diagnosable, but they can cause real ...

For centuries, experts have believed William Shakespeare’s marriage to Anne Hathaway wasn’t a particularly close one. But a new piece of evidence is throwing that assumption into question. The World’s ...

President Trump's announcement that US sanctions on Syria would be lifted was met with elation by Syrians. Syria has a long ...