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Investigation belies UK claim that no civilians were killed in Iraq-Syria bombings

By Brett Wilkins British airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria likely killed dozens of noncombatants despite claims by U.K. military leaders that...

Pakistan: 10 million deprived of safe drinking water in flood-affected areas

Six months after catastrophic floods struck Pakistan, more than 10 million people, including children, still lack access to safe drinking water, the UN Children’s...

Ethiopian lawmakers remove Tigray group from terror list

NAIROBI, Kenya—Ethiopian lawmakers have removed the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front from the country’s list of designated terror groups more than four months after a peace...

Africa’s place in global diplomacy defined by colonial and post-colonial history

Africa’s placement in global diplomacy has almost always been informed by its “colonial and post-colonial history,” wrote Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza, a barrister, journalist and...

Saudi Arabia and Iran close ranks in a move toward reestablishing ties

The recent wave of global realignments among nations has taken an unexpected twist with a China-brokered accord between the Islamic Republic of Iran and...

Garbage tarnishes Paris luster as pension strike continues

PARIS—The City of Light is losing its luster with tons of garbage piling up on Paris sidewalks as sanitation workers were on strike for...

The work of the Revolution has a people to defend it

The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, rejected the “new...

Netherlands repatriates Indigenous remains to Caribbean isle

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—The Netherlands has returned the remains of nine indigenous people that archaeologists found more than 30 years ago on the tiny...

U.S. Anti-Semitism campaign funded by a South African who made fortune under Apartheid

The fight to suppress Palestinian rights and the fight against what is labeled “anti- Semitism” has strange bedfellows. One source of this apparent link...

More than 850,000 Syrian, Turkish children displaced by earthquakes

One month on from the two catastrophic earthquakes that struck Türkiye and Syria, more than 850,000 children remain displaced after being forced from their...