Many people have had to tighten their purse strings in recent years. But that's only part of what...
The U.S. president has a history of strong-arming trading partners. But the move to tax things li...
With a now-leaderless Democratic Party and no charismatic successor to take over from Berlusconi,...
The leftist leader had some worthy accomplishments during his long tenure as Bolivian president. ...
MOSCOW — For the first time, the U.S. Congress has recognized the mass killings and deportations in the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923 as genocide. So why now? It doesn't seem that the ...
Globally, 25% of all people admit they have nobody to talk to, with older people living longer an...
Chileans are fairly well off, but only in comparison to their Latin American neighbors. The count...
PARIS — "Kolossal'naya opasnost." In a recent BBC interview, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev used those two words - "colossal danger" - to sound the alarm of the risk the world faces as ...
Election winners Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner will soon take over leadership of...
President López Obrador is bending Congress and the judiciary to his will, and scaring awa...
-Analysis- MOSCOW — The USA betrayed the Kurds. This was the blunt interpretation from Dmitry Peskov, press secretary to Russian President Vladimir Putin, following the Turkey-Russia ...
-Essay- NEW YORK — They said the devil had traveled in her clothing. Elsche Prösche, née Wohler, wife of Jochim, was in her forties, and lived a life of relative poverty in Kölzin, a ...
South American states like Chile and Ecuador suspect Venezuela's socialist regime of fanning riot...
Politics in the region have become even more complex since the Cold War era of revolutions and mi...
Soccer stars and public figures show their dismal side when they play the victims on being caught...
WARSAW — Poland's ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) won last weekend's parliamentary elections. So why was longtime party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski so obviously glum during his victory ...
Moreno is now reversing course on austerity measures that provoked nearly two weeks of mass prote...
The expected reelection of the conservative "Law and Justice" (PiS) party could usher in new rest...
As Trump leads a U.S. retreat from the region, Russia has methodically moved back into a position...
The U.S. president's abrupt decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria was short-lived. But ...
Alaa was taken away by the Egyptian state. Mohamed al-Baqer, a human rights lawyer, was also deta...
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