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The State Department has not held a public press briefing in over three months, even as Washington's rivals intensify their communication campaigns to shape opinion and undermine U.S leadership narratives on the world stage.

Governments at a wildlife trade conference have adopted greater protections for over 70 species of sharks and rays amid concerns that overfishing is driving some to the brink of extinction.

Seoul imposed sanctions on 132 entities and 15 individuals involved in transnational crime in Southeast Asia -- reportedly the largest sanctions package South Korea has ever deployed.

A confident far-right Alternative for Germany set up its new youth organization on Saturday even as thousands of protesters converged on the western city of Giessen, where the party held its meeting, some of them clashing with police.

Russian drone and missile attacks in and around the Ukraine's capital killed at least three people early Saturday, officials said, as the country's representatives traveled to the U.S. to work on a renewed push to end the war.

Azerbaijani authorities detained opposition leader Ali Karimli on Saturday, his adviser said, marking the latest escalation in the country's crackdown on dissent.

The Palestinian death toll has surpassed 70,000 since the Israel-Hamas war began, Gaza's Health Ministry said Saturday, while a hospital said that Israeli fire killed two Palestinian children in the territory's south.

Improved weather on Saturday helped rescuers on Indonesia's Sumatra island recover more bodies as they struggled to reach several areas that were hit by landslides and flash floods that left more than 300 dead and scores missing.

A trio of elderly nuns in Austria who fled a care home to return to their longtime convent are at odds with the provost in charge after he demanded they leave social media.

The International Atomic Energy Agency is sending technicians to the site of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant to assess the current condition of an arch-shaped steel structure that was erected over the damaged reactor following the 1986 ...