It began as part of the US-brokered ceasefire agreement to stop the war in Gaza. But the “Board of Peace,” a brainchild of US ...

The spiritual head of the Church of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, going back to St. Augustine in the year 597. All of the archbishops that followed were men, until today. The Most Reverend ...

The legendary crooner Julio Iglesias had been accused of sexual abuse and human trafficking. But Spain’s highest court threw out the case late last week, brought by Dominican women who worked for the ...

On Wednesday, police in Nigeria’s largest city fired tear gas on people protesting the ongoing demolition of Makoko, an enormous informal settlement that stretches out into the Lagos Lagoon. With over ...

As Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on, the number of soldiers killed, injured or missing on both sides could hit 2 million by the spring. The Washington Post’s Francesca Ebel recently returned from ...

The Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria have lost almost all of the territory they controlled in northern and eastern Syria to the central government. This is a major shift in the power dynamics in ...

A court in the Netherlands this week sentence a man to 20 years imprisonment in one of Europe’s most significant human trafficking trials in history. Amanuel Walid was accused of running a vast ...

It began as part of the US-brokered ceasefire agreement to stop the war in Gaza. But the “Board of Peace,” a brainchild of US President Trump, has morphed into something with more grand ambitions, at ...

The Outer Hebrides are the UK’s last holdout of traditional Christian Sunday observance, prohibiting work, shopping, and ...

US threats to take control of Greenland have rattled Europe’s far-right leaders, some of President Trump’s staunchest allies. Just a year ago, many were in Washington celebrating his inauguration. Now ...

Analysts are calling it China’s biggest military purge in roughly half a century: President Xi Jinping has placed his second-in-command, China’s top general, under investigation. Shanshan Mei, who ...

A groundbreaking Australian play has come to New York for a few weeks. It’s called "The Visitors," and it tells an important ...