China's leaders are promising to rein in aluminum production that is flooding global markets and threatening jobs in the United States and Europe, but its producers have ambitious plans to expand.
A fire is sweeping through a slum on the outskirts of Brazil's biggest city, and authorities say hundreds of people have had to flee as flames consume wooden homes.
Brazilian President Michel Temer has announced a privatization plan aimed at propelling Latin America's biggest economy out of its worst financial crisis in decades.
While scores of Churches across the Middle East are being burned, bombed and razed, at least one nation has overturned draconian laws with the goal of allowing more Christian houses of worship to be rebuilt.
American warplanes eliminated a "significant chemical threat" to Iraqi civilians by bombing a complex of buildings near the northern city of Mosul that Islamic State militants had converted from pharmaceutical manufacturing to chemical weapons production, the three-star general in charge of U.S. air operations in the Middle East said Tuesday.
European Union President Donald Tusk says that the best way to deal with the myriad of crises the EU is facing is for national capitals to broker common solutions instead of giving more powers to centralized EU institutions in Brussels.
Two prominent human rights groups say the planned outcome document for next week's United Nations summit on refugees falls short of what is needed to deal with the massive crisis.
A cease-fire brokered by the U.S. and Russia brought calm across much of Syria on Tuesday as residents of the northern city of Aleppo awaited an expected aid shipment.
Federal police on Tuesday announced the detention of jailed drug lord Hector Beltran Leyva's wife and said their criminal gang was behind a recent wave of killings in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco.
Greece's foreign ministry and main political parties have strongly condemned the daubing of Nazi symbols on the walls of a Jewish synagogue in northern Greece.
