Germany’s national weather service has warned that the west of the country could see heavy storms starting later in the day and going into Friday, with a possibility of tornadoes

Russia says hundreds more fighters have emerged from the Mariupol stronghold where they made their last stand and surrendered

Turkey's president has flatly stated that his country will oppose Sweden and Finland joining NATO

The Portuguese government says Russia is expelling five diplomats from its Moscow embassy, a day after the Kremlin also expelled diplomats from Spain, France and Italy

The locked-down Chinese metropolis of Shanghai will reopen four of its 20 subway lines Sunday as it slowly eases pandemic restrictions that have kept most residents in their housing complexes for more than six weeks

North Korean propaganda describes an all-out effort to fight a suspected COVID-19 outbreak that has sickened nearly 2 million people

German police say they have detained a suspect in connection with an attack at a high school in the northern city of Bremerhaven in which one person was injured

Prague’s zoo has introduced to the public a pair of critically endangered Chinese pangolins

Dozens of prominent conservatives from Europe, the United States and elsewhere have gathered in Hungary for the American Conservative Political Action Conference, being held in Europe for the first time

Finance ministers for the Group of Seven leading economies on Thursday will deal with the immediate effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic, overtaking their more ambitious plans to reform the global economy

President Joe Biden's six-day trip to South Korea and Japan aims to build rapport with the Asian nations’ leaders

On May 5, five U.S. federal agents boarded the massive Russian-owned superyacht Amadea that was berthed in Lautoka harbor in Fiji

Spain’s former King Juan Carlos is set to return to the country on Thursday for his first visit since leaving nearly two years ago amid a cloud of financial scandals

New Zealand’s government says it will hand out an extra few hundred dollars to more than 2 million lower-income adults to help them navigate what it describes as “the peak of the global inflation storm.”

A petition to stop the revival of the 118-year-old Jonglei Canal project in South Sudan, started by one of the country’s top academics, is gaining traction in the country, with the waterway touted as a catastrophic environmental and social disaster for the country’s Sudd wetlands

Russia says that nearly 1,000 Ukrainian troops who doggedly defended a giant steelworks in Mariupol have surrendered

Sri Lankan protesters lit flames and offered prayers Wednesday remembering thousands — including ethnic Tamil civilians — killed in the final stages of the country’s decadeslong civil war

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia has already fired more than 2,000 missiles during its attack on Ukraine, which he said was a large part of its arsenal

The United States is struggling to get clarity from Turkey over the severity of its opposition to Finland and Sweden joining NATO

NATO diplomats say national envoys have failed to reach a consensus about whether to start membership talks with Finland and Sweden