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Chinese President Xi Jinping this week challenged President Trump's push to re-establish the Monroe Doctrine in the Western Hemisphere -- a strategy that calls for preventing China and other foreign powers from dominating the region.

Nathan Cofnas, the postdoctoral researcher whose plagiarism allegations preceded the resignation and death of former Cambridge professor Jason Arday, has himself been suspended by Ghent University in Belgium pending a disciplinary investigation.

Federal research funding could be eliminated for 30 of America's top colleges if they don't review academic collaboration with "foreign entities of concern" such as Iran, Russia and China.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday announced that the U.S. would impose some of the "toughest sanctions in history" on Iran next week, doubling down on the Trump administration's economic warfare strategy as diplomacy stalls.

A boat capsized Thursday in a river in Nigeria's northwestern Sokoto state, leaving at least 47 people dead, officials and residents said.

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake shook Peru's southern Andes Mountains on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. There were no immediate reports of damage.

DARLINE GRAHAM defends debate flub: "I don't speak politician. I was just honest."

Maysam Sabitian says it's time for President Trump to rip the Band-Aid off and go full tilt on Iran, finding ways to kill more hardline military commanders, granting recognition to an exiled government and arming dissidents to help them overthrow the ...

Conflict with Arab neighbors is nothing new for Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but growing tensions between the Jewish state and regional power Turkey threaten to superheat a Middle East that's already close to boiling.

The sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un engaged in some weapons-grade propaganda Thursday, trolling President Trump in an attempt to exacerbate regional fallout over his last-minute downscaling of a summer war game conducted by the South ...