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Colombian superstar Shakira made a surprise visit to a hard-hit region of her home country Monday, announcing multiple commitments to rebuild schools and a university there after Colombia suffered a devastating earthquake last week.

Visiting Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Tuesday sidestepped a brouhaha that has galvanized Australian media -- an apparent reference by the Australian prime minister to his Japanese counterpart's breasts.

Kanye West will perform two stadium shows in St. Petersburg, Russia, in October, making him one of the most prominent Western performers to play Russia since Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, according to concert organizers.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s son Conor has been placed on Russia's international wanted list for his covert enlistment to fight in the war in Ukraine.

Iranian parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf reiterated Tuesday that the Islamic regime's forces will keep the Strait of Hormuz closed until the U.S. fulfills its obligations under the defunct Islamabad memorandum of understanding.

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema was declared the winner Tuesday of a troubled election that saw vote counting suspended at one point because of violence at polling stations and opposition officials arrested during a law enforcement raid in which ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signed into law a measure that would introduce a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants as part of a government peace effort with the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.

Ukrainian forces staged one of their biggest drone attacks on Russia since Moscow's invasion more than four years ago, firing almost 800 drones just two days after launching a similar salvo, officials said Tuesday.

The United States and Canada have wrangled for decades over trade, poking each other interminably over sore spots like Canadian softwood lumber imports and U.S. access to Canada's protected dairy market.

A high school student carrying two firearms shot to death a fellow student before killing himself Tuesday at a high school on a university campus in the southern Philippines where hundreds of students were evacuated to safety, officials said.