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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi issued strong warnings to U.S. leaders Thursday, asserting that Tehran would hold America accountable for any Israeli attacks on its nuclear infrastructure.

Britain signed an agreement Thursday to hand sovereignty over the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a move the government says ensures the future of a U.S.-U.K. military base that is vital to British security.

North Korea test-fired a barrage of cruise missiles Wednesday, the same day a destroyer launch went badly wrong, leaving state leader Kim Jong-un fuming, it was revealed Thursday.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz traveled this week to Lithuania to oversee the deployment of his nation's first permanent foreign troop deployment since World War II.

Iran's top diplomat warned Thursday that his country would take "special measures" to defend its nuclear facilities if Israel continues to threaten them, raising the stakes further ahead of a new round of talks with the United States.

Russia and Ukraine have no direct peace talks scheduled, the Kremlin said Thursday, nearly a week after their first face-to-face session since shortly after Moscow's invasion in 2022 and days after U.S. President Donald Trump said they would start ...

Grabbing her daughter's feeble arm, Asmaa al-Arja pulls a shirt over the 2-year-old's protruding ribs and swollen belly. The child lies on a hospital bed, heaving, then wails uncontrollably, throwing her arms around her own shoulders as if to console ...

Protocols for responding to emergencies on busy North Sea shipping routes off the Dutch coast must be urgently improved, an independent Dutch safety watchdog said Thursday in a report into a deadly blaze on a cargo ship.

The European Union's foreign policy chief said Thursday that membership candidate Serbia faces a "strategic choice" of direction, just weeks after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic defied EU warnings and attended Russia's Victory Day parade in ...

A retired high-ranking officer in Myanmar's military was shot dead by a self-proclaimed urban guerrilla group on Thursday near his home in the country's biggest city, marking the latest assassination attributed to militants opposed to army rule.