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Tunisia’s president and its shaky democracy are facing an important test Sunday as voters cast ballots in the second round of parliamentary elections

Turkey has issued a travel warning for its citizens living in or planning on going to European countries, citing Islamophobia and anti-Turkish demonstrations

It has been over 11 weeks since Ukrainian forces wrested back part of Kherson province from Russian occupation

Israeli police have sealed up the east Jerusalem home of a Palestinian attacker who killed seven individuals and wounded three outside a synagogue

A government official says a bus accident in southern Pakistan has left 40 individuals dead

Iran’s Defense Ministry says one of its factories was attacked in Isfahan.

A passenger bus has fallen into a ravine in northern Peru leaving at least 25 individuals dead and others injured

Israeli PM Netanyahu announces punitive steps in response to Palestinian attacks, including 'strengthening' settlements

The foreign ministers of Sweden and Finland have reiterated in separate interviews published Saturday that the process for the two Nordic nations to join NATO is continuing

The Taliban are doubling down on their ban on women’s education.

Potentially lethal radioactive capsule got missing during transport on a truck.

Trying to equip the invaded country with long-range missiles, military aircraft.

Retired Gen. Petr Pavel beats billionaire Andrej Babis to become new Czech president

The husband of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says he was deeply moved by a “solemn and sad” visit to the former site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp

A mobile app for migrants to seek asylum in the United States has been overwhelmed since it was introduced this month in one of several major changes to the government’s response to unprecedented migration flows

Tunisia was once the Arab world’s hope for a new era of democracy

Hundreds of climate activists have blocked one of the leading roads into The Hague, defying attempts to prevent their protest that have sparked concerns about restrictions on the right to demonstrate

The Philippines says it will take steps to evaluate and prevent abuses including rape and maltreatment of Filipino workers in Kuwait after a housemaid was killed and dumped in a desert in the oil-rich emirate

Italy’s prime minister has kept talks in Libya with officials from the country’s west-based government focusing on energy and migration, top issues for Italy and the European Union

Struggling U.K. airline Flybe has collapsed for the second time in less than three years

A retired army general has defeated a populist billionaire in a runoff vote to select the new president of the Czech Republic

Italian architect Sabato De Sarno has been named the new creative director of Gucci, and will unveil his first collection during Milan Fashion Week next September, Gucci and parent company Kering announced Saturday

Sri Lanka’s president has suspended Parliament until Feb. 8, when he said he would announced a new set of long-term policies to address a range of issues including an unprecedented economic crisis

Italy’s premier says Italian diplomatic property has been the target of vandalism in Berlin and Barcelona

Pope Francis has explained his comments about homosexuality and sin

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced a series of punitive steps.

Israel rescue service says shooting in east Jerusalem has wounded 2 people, day after deadliest attack in city in years

Two Indian air force jets have crashed in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, killing one pilot

When Pope Francis arrives in Congo and South Sudan next week, thousands of individuals will take special note of a gesture more grounded than the sign of the cross

Mali’s Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop has defended the military government’s cooperation with Russia

A Japanese whaling operator, after struggling for years to raise its products amid protests from conservationists, has found a new way to domesticate clientele: whale meat vending machines

At 10:40 a.m. on a day in January, two powerful beams of light from the Svalbard governor’s boat pierced the complete darkness of the mountain-fringed fjord it was sailing. It was carrying the children’s choir from this remote village’s church to visit an even more isolated Arctic outpost. That’s polar night in this Norwegian archipelago – so close to the North Pole the sun is at least six degrees below the horizon from mid-November through the end of January. For the miners, scientists and tourism workers of more than 50 nationalities who create up most of Svalbard’s 3,000 inhabitants, it's challenging at first to adjust to living without even a hint of twilight in a treeless, black-and-white landscape. “First time in Svalbard, it was like coming to the moon,” said the Rev. Leif Magne Helgesen, who was the pastor of Svalbard Kirke, the only church in the leading village of Longyearbyen, for a dozen years until 2019, and has written about its delicate environment. Then the polar night...

Mexico City prosecutors say severed cables and a speeding driver were responsible for a Jan. 7 subway crash that killed one person and injured dozens

Nicaraguan authorities say they have arrested 24 settlers after they allegedly attacked an native community as part of a land dispute

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt tells reporters he is baffled over how $12.7 million of his money has gone missing from a native private investment firm that authorities are investigating as part of a massive fraud

Residents of the Mexican resort of Cancun had been hoping individuals would boycott medallion taxis Friday, after a week of blockades and violent incidents by drivers protesting the ride-hailing app Uber

The U_N_ chief has warned on the day to remember victims of the Holocaust that “many parts of the internet are becoming poisonous waste dumps for hate and vicious lies.”

Brazil’s federal police have searched the home of a nephew of former President Jair Bolsonaro in connection with the Jan. 8 storming of government buildings in the capital by far-right protesters

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we speak with Anti-Defamation League Director and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt to discuss the Holocaust and its survivors.

A federal appeals court in New York is considering if the Vermont Law and Graduate School modified a pair of vast murals when it concealed them behind a wall of panels almost 30 years later against the artist’s wishes

Ten others were wounded in the Friday night shooting.

The Palestinian gunman was reportedly shot and killed, and this shooting comes just one day after Israeli troops killed nine Palestinians in the West Bank.

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has called on Congress to approve a proposal to move elections forward to late this year, a marked concession for the leader who has been facing daily protests that have left almost 60 individuals dead

A look at the week's top photos from around the globe.

Experts restoring the interior of Mexico City's Roman Catholic cathedral say they have found 23 lead boxes containing religious inscriptions and relics like little paintings and wood or palm crosses

Israeli rescue service says 5 killed in Jerusalem synagogue shooting

Human Rights Watch says it has obtained a database leaked from the government of El Salvador that corroborates massive due process violations, severe prison overcrowding and deaths in custody under the country’s emergency powers put in place last March...

Israeli medics say a gunman wounded five individuals in a Jerusalem neighborhood before he was shot.

Police in London say a pop-up urinal has crushed a man to death in the city's theater district

A spate of gender-based violence, coupled with the early release of several sex offenders, has increased pressure on Spain’s left-wing government, which strongly plays up its feminist credentials, to do more to protect women from abuse