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Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock from around the world to study the origins of the universe in this inhospitable desert along the Pacific coast.

Tunisian police on Tuesday arrested prominent opposition lawyer and longtime human rights defender Ayachi Hammami at his home outside the capital, acting on a five-year prison sentence issued against him last week in a prominent "conspiracy against ...

German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt on Tuesday inaugurated the country's new federal police drone defense unit, which can be deployed across the country and "is equipped with the latest technology for smart drone defense."

A day after Honduran electoral authorities stopped reporting updates to the presidential vote count because of "technical problems," candidate Salvador Nasralla of the conservative Liberal party had a slight edge Tuesday over Nasry Asfura, the ...

Beijing is "out for blood" and wants to exact a toll on Japan for recent signals that Tokyo would view a Chinese attack on Taiwan as a threat to Japan's security, according to a leading scholar on China's foreign policy.

President Trump said Tuesday that his administration will expand drug strikes to land locations, including in Colombia, after defending the U.S. military attacks on vessels in the Caribbean near Venezuela.

The nuclear genie keeps trying to wriggle its way out of a tight South Korea bottle, with President Lee Jae-myung addressing radioactive rumors about Seoul going critical Tuesday.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday nominated the former military chief as defense minister just weeks after he was made to step down.

U.S.-operated flights returning deported migrants to Venezuela will continue despite President Donald Trump's assertion that the airspace of the South American country should be considered closed.

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was released from a U.S. prison after being pardoned by President Trump for a drug trafficking conviction.