France and the United Nations have vowed to keep providing humanitarian aid to the Lebanese people but urged the country’s leaders to form a new government as a political deadlock has blocked billions of dollars in assistance for the cash-strapped country

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts the country is about to go through “the most difficult time in the public health history of the nation.”

Former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, who became a champion of European integration during his 1974-1981 presidency, has died at age 94

Britain has become the first country in the world to authorize a rigorously tested COVID-19 vaccine and could be dispensing shots within days

News that British regulators have granted emergency authorization to the first rigorously tested coronavirus vaccine marked a turning point in the global effort curb the pandemic

Israel has taken a major step toward plunging into its fourth national election in under two years

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a “large-scale” COVID-19 immunization campaign to start by late next week

A former European Parliament lawmaker from Hungary has resigned from his country’s ruling party after being swept up in a scandal involving what media reports called an orgy that Brussels police broke up amid a covornavirus lockdown

British regulators have become the first to authorize the COVID-19 vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech for emergency use

Democrats in the House and Senate introduced a joint resolution Wednesday aimed at amending the 13th Amendment’s ban on chattel enslavement

The U.S. envoy who brokered the ongoing peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban says the two sides have overcome a three-month impasse and agreed on rules and procedures for the negotiations

The U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs has voted to remove cannabis and cannabis resin from a category of the world’s most dangerous drugs, which could impact the global medical marijuana industry

Dutch police say that three staff members were injured in a stabbing and fire at a supermarket in a busy shopping street in The Hague

Thailand’s highest court has acquitted Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha of breaching ethics clauses in the country’s constitution, allowing him to stay in his job

The European Union is grasping the imminent arrival of the Biden administration as a key moment to reset relations with the United States after four years of trans-Atlantic acrimony

Three prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activists have been sentenced to jail for a protest outside police headquarters, as authorities step up a crackdown on opposition to tighten control by Beijing over the territory

In a breakthrough, the United Nations says it and Ethiopia’s government have signed a deal to allow “unimpeded” humanitarian access to the embattled Tigray region, at least the parts under federal government control

Austrian officials say they will allow skiing to start on Dec. 24, but will limit the capacity of ski lifts and keep restaurants, bars and hotels largely closed until early January

Residents of Trier have placed flowers and lit candles at the base of the southwestern German city’s landmark gate in tribute to the five people who were killed and more than a dozen others injured when a man sped an SUV through a central pedestrian zone

The head of the United Nations is calling on countries to end what he calls a war on nature and instead embrace a future without carbon pollution triggering global warming