A U.S. airstrike near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan killed the mastermind of a 2014 attack on a Pakistani school that killed some 150 people, mainly children, American and Pakistani officials said Wednesday.
Venezuelans are getting a glimpse of the military's expanded role combatting severe food shortages that are threatening to provoke more unrest in the crisis-plagued nation.
Authorities in Honduras said Wednesday that they have arrested three suspects in the murder of an environmental and indigenous rights activist — the third slaying victim from the same organization in four months.
Britain's vote to leave the European Union is already taking its toll on the British economy, raising speculation that the Bank of England will on Thursday decide to reduce its main interest rate to a record low.
He had a ringside seat for the entire, bloody rise of ISIS, and by his own count killed dozens of innocent men, women and children. Now Thahir Sahab Jamel disavows the black-clad Islamist army, but his Kurdish jailors say they’ve heard it all before.
After all of the flamboyant characters and very public backstabbing in the race to become Britain's next prime minister, the winner turned out to be an understated workhorse who maintained a low profile throughout the campaign.
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai has visited the office of the International Justice Mission in Kenya's capital and offered condolences for the human rights lawyer and two other men whose killings have caused an uproar.
The United Nations peacekeeping chief says the official government death toll of 272, including 33 civilians, in the recent fighting in the capital is likely "only the tip of the iceberg." Herve Ladsous told the Security Council Wednesday that while a cease-fire in Juba, the capital, appears to be holding since it was declared Monday night, further clashes cannot be ruled out.
With the British pound at multidecade lows after the Brexit vote, many travelers—especially North Americans—are making last-minute plans to take a newly affordable British vacation.
Turkey's state-run news agency says prosecutors are seeking several consecutive life sentences for dozens of suspects accused of involvement in twin suicide bombings that killed 103 people outside Ankara's train station last year.
Ambassadors from NATO nations are meeting with Russian envoys to explain decisions taken at the recent alliance summit and attempt to reduce tensions with Moscow.
Slovenia's Finance Minister Dusan Mramor has resigned citing "entirely personal reasons." Mramor, 62, was considered one of the most influential members of Prime Minister Miro Cerar's center-left government.
The United Nations envoy to Libya says its reconstituted army could be decentralized, an idea aimed at easing the political gridlock surrounding an internationally-backed unity government.
The United Nations envoy to Libya says its reconstituted army could be decentralized, an idea aimed at easing the political gridlock surrounding an internationally-backed unity government.