Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies pledged at least $1.7 billion Tuesday to avert an economic catastrophe in Afghanistan. Still, it was unclear when and where the promised money would arrive.
Germany’s Protestant Church and others have condemned the burial of a prominent neo-Nazi’s ashes in a vacant plot of a Jewish musicologist outside Berlin.
A Hungarian court has sentenced a Syrian national to life imprisonment for his involvement in “crimes against humanity” and “terrorism” as a military leader of the Islamic State terror group in Syria.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reviewed missiles developed for use on the United States mainland, vowing to build an “invincible” military, according to state media.
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid told US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Tuesday that Iran is “becoming a nuclear threshold state.”
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whom supporters saw as a top candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, has congratulated countryman Dmitry Muratov for winning it.
Police in Warsaw confirmed Monday that they detained a prime minister’s nephew and three others at a protest against government policies that critics fear could cost Poland its European Union membership.
America and its allies are scrambling to establish a global infrastructure funding mechanism to counter the trillions of dollars China has spent to build projects and buy influence through what U.S. officials describe as Beijing‘s “mercantilist” and “predatory” Belt and Road development lending initiative.
World food prices have risen to their highest levels in a decade, the UN food agency says, adding to concerns about increased famine in impoverished nations.
Iran has enriched more than 120 kg. of 20% enriched uranium, the head of its atomic energy organization, Mohammad Eslami, said Saturday evening, state news agency IRNA reported.
On Friday, 136 countries agreed to setting a 15% minimum global tax rate for big corporations and to make it harder for them to avoid the tax, The Epoch Times reported. President Biden lauded the plan after it was announced, saying in a statement that “a strong global minimum tax will finally even the playing field for American workers and taxpayers, along with the rest of the world.
The president of Taiwan has vowed to do her “utmost” to defend her country from Chinese claims on its territory.
In a significant political setback, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis’ ANO party lost the elections after revelations that he had hidden millions in taxable assets.
Austria’s conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, one of Europe’s youngest leaders, announced his resigned Saturday after prosecutors placed him under a corruption investigation.
German police announced Friday they are investigating an “alleged sonic weapon attack” on employees stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, the latest in a long-running series of attacks that U.S. officials are still at a loss to explain.
Scores of people have died in northern Afghanistan Friday in the country’s deadliest assault since US forces left, raising concerns about rising Islamic extremism.
Lebanon faces a nationwide power outage for a number of days after the country’s two largest power stations shut down on Saturday due to a fuel shortage, an official said.
The U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday adopted a resolution establishing a “special rapporteur” to monitor the human rights situation in Afghanistan over the next year, but not before China offered amendments designed both to water down the text and to point fingers at the United States.
A U.S. special operations unit and a group of Marines have secretly been operating in Taiwan to train military forces there as China ramps up its aggression toward the small island nation, according to U.S. officials.
The European Union faces a major legal challenge after a top court in Poland rejected the primacy of EU law over national legislation in certain judicial matters.