Sweden says that Iran was behind thousands of text messages that were sent to people in the Scandinavian country calling for revenge over the burnings of Quran, Islam’s holy book in 2023. Authorities ...

Hurricane John has struck Mexico’s southern Pacific coast with life-threatening flood potential. John grew from a tropical storm to a major hurricane in hours and came ashore near Punta Maldonado late ...

State-run media in Turkey says an Australian women has been arrested in Turkey over her alleged links to a Kurdish militant group. Cigdem Aslan, 51, is reported by the state-run Anadolu news agency to ...

Pope Francis will be visiting Belgium on a trip starting Thursday, facing a flock ravaged by countless scandals of priest sexual abuse and dwindling in the face of modernity, where women and gays ...

Palestinian officials say Israel’s strikes early Tuesday killed at least seven people in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. At least 15 others, including women and children, were injured in the ...

Japan’s Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa has asked her Chinese counterpart to ensure the safety of Japanese citizens there after a 10-year-old schoolboy was fatally stabbed. Kamikawa on Tuesday also ...

Students are set to return to classes at Apalachee High School on Tuesday, weeks after a school shooter killed two students and two teachers. Some students are still uneasy about returning. The sounds ...

The Great Mosque of Tinmel had been undergoing a massive reconstruction project when an earthquake shook Morocco’s High Atlas mountains. After nearly 900 years, the revered mosque was left mostly in ...

Death row inmates in five separate states are set to be put to death in the span of one week. If carried out as planned, the executions in Alabama, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas will ma ...

World leaders will open their annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly under the shadow of increasing global divisions, major wars in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan, and the threat of an even larger ...

When Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opens the United Nations’ General Assembly on Tuesday, he is expected to call on the world to do more to combat climate change. It remains to be seen ...

The U.N. General Assembly’s yearly meeting of world leaders is here. And with it comes an array of acronyms, abbreviations, titles and terms that can be confounding to observers. The Associated Press ...