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The Trump administration is backing Britain's plan to turn over sovereignty of the Chagos archipelago to Mauritius while leasing back Diego Garcia, a critical military base in the Indo-Pacific region.

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, 47, announced on Wednesday she will run for her country's presidency in 2028, expanding the bitter feud between her and President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.

Sarah Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, closed all six of her companies after new documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files highlighted her close relationship with the sex offender and financier.

Australia's government banned an Australian citizen with alleged ties to the militant Islamic State group from returning home from a detention camp in Syria, the latest development in the case of fraught repatriation of families of IS fighters.

A Turkish parliamentary committee on Wednesday recommended a series of reforms to advance a new peace initiative with the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, while stressing that legal steps should be tied to state security institutions ...

A private Indian university was booted from a top artificial intelligence summit in New Delhi on Wednesday after one of its staffers displayed a commercially available robotic dog made in China, claiming it was the university's own innovation.

Samba and literature rarely share the same stage, but at this year's Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, two samba schools used their parades to tell the stories of Black Brazilian female authors. It's an unusual recognition of writers who have been ...

It is "disheartening" that some cutting-edge tech companies seem reluctant to fully do business with the military and support all of its operations, a key Defense Department official said Tuesday amid an escalating feud between the Pentagon and ...

Tehran sent alarming signals across the Middle East on Tuesday by partially closing for the first time the Strait of Hormuz, a key strategic waterway, for hours ahead of high-stakes nuclear negotiations between Iranian and U.S. officials in Geneva.

Peru's Congress on Tuesday voted to remove interim President Jose Jeri from office as he faces corruption allegations, triggering a fresh wave of political instability just weeks before the nation's April presidential and congressional elections.