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Iran's leadership is facing an existential challenge this month, experts said Wednesday, as widespread protests expanded this week across most of Iran's provinces, spurred on by a severe economic downturn in recent months.

Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the former U.S.-backed Shah of Iran, is calling on Iranians to chant together on Thursday and Friday against the leadership of the Islamic republic as the two-week demonstrations circulate throughout the country.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday vetoed a bill that could reduce the 27-year prison sentence of his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro for the far-right leader's failed 2023 coup attempt.

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday opened a new phase of his pontificate by gathering the world's cardinals to Rome and asking them to advise him on key priorities for the next two years. They responded by indicating continuity with Pope Francis' key aims of ...

The Senate on Thursday narrowly advanced a war powers resolution to block President Trump from taking further military action in Venezuela without congressional approval.

In a two-week period, U.S. forces destroyed over 70 Islamic State targets in Syria, struck extremists in northern Nigeria, and executed a daring raid capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from a heavily guarded compound in Caracas.

Saudi Arabia said Thursday that the United Arab Emirates smuggled a separatist leader in Yemen wanted for treason out of the country and flew him to Abu Dhabi.

The U.S. seizure of a Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the North Atlantic was seen by some as the unilateral action of an America-first government with scant regard for other countries' views. Britain calls it an example of trans-Atlantic cooperation ...

The Trump administration is awarding orders totaling $2.7 billion to three companies to increase the enrichment of domestic uranium over the next decade.

They're at it again.