Saudi Arabia will extend a cut in the amount of oil it sends to the world after a series of reductions by members of the OPEC+ alliance of major producing countries failed to prop up prices

Russia’s Supreme Court has effectively outlawed LGBTQ+ activism, in the most drastic step against advocates of gay, lesbian and transgender rights in the increasingly conservative country

Four migrants have died yards from shore in southern Spain after being forced out of the boat they were traveling in

A temporary cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war has been extended another day

Hamas released two Israeli women from captivity as the truce in Gaza endured another day

Nearly all the world’s nations finalized the creation of a fund to help compensate countries struggling to cope with loss and damage caused by climate change, seen as a major first-day breakthrough at this year’s U.N. climate conference as early cash started going into it

Global leaders are paying tribute to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, but there's also sharp criticism of the man who remained an influential figure decades after his official service as one of the most powerful diplomats in American history

British ex-Treasury chief Alistair Darling has died at age 70

The world wants more nuclear energy as a means to fight climate change and supply an ever-growing demand for electricity, part of a generational shift in thinking on atomic power

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has faced Western critics while attending international security talks in Northern Macedonia

Police in Pakistan have arrested four people who allegedly killed an 18-year-old woman in the purported name of honor after a picture of her sitting with a boyfriend went viral on social media

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.”

Somalia’s maritime police force has intensified patrols in the Gulf of Aden following a failed pirate hijacking of a ship earlier this week

Ukrainian officials say Russian missiles tore through apartment buildings in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region during the night

Japan has suspended flights of its Osprey aircraft after a U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed into the sea during a training mission

The U.N. weather agency says 2023 is all but certain to be the hottest year on record, and warning of worrying trends that suggest increasing floods, wildfires, glacier melt, and heat waves in the future

In the depths of captivity in Gaza, they formed an unlikely but prized friendship

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died, his consulting firm says

Dozens of South Korean dog farmers have scuffled with police during a rally near the presidential office to protest a recent push by authorities to outlaw dog meat consumption

Panama’s Supreme Court unanimously declared that legislation granting a Canadian copper mine a 20-year concession was unconstitutional