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A record 13 backcountry skiers, climbers and hikers have died in the Italian mountains over the last week, rescuers said Monday, including 10 in avalanches triggered by an exceptionally unstable snowpack, as Winter Olympic competitions got underway.

Egypt is a Muslim-majority country. Islam can be felt, seen and heard in every corner of the nation: The melodic call to prayer rings out five times a day to remind Muslims to stop what they are doing and turn their attention to God in worship.

Iranian authorities arrested three prominent reformist politicians on Sunday evening and Monday morning, accusing them of organizing last month's nationwide protests and seeking to disrupt the Islamic republic's "political and social situation" on ...

Cuba is warning airlines that it will no longer be able to supply fuel, beginning Monday, as President Trump uses economic levers to cut off the communist island's energy supplies.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing a battle to stay in post as he comes under heavy criticism for his decision in 2024 to appoint veteran politician Peter Mandelson as the British ambassador to the U.S. despite the latter's ties to late ...

Prince William and Princess Catherine on Monday expressed concern for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein, as the British monarchy seeks to distance itself from revelations about the former Prince Andrew's relationship with the convicted sex offender.

Pakistan's president has warned that the Taliban's government in Afghanistan has created conditions "similar to or worse than" those before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a sign of rising tensions with Kabul after last week's mosque attack in Islamabad ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's big election win paves the way for her ruling party to dominate the crucial lower house of parliament. It also gives her the political power to make a strong rightward shift in Japan's security, immigration ...

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the ...

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, a royalist who favors Thailand's politically powerful army, won the most seats in Sunday's general elections, outmaneuvering his progressive rival who wanted to reform the military and monarchy.