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Leaders are looking at plans to speed up initiatives to get unwanted migrants out of the bloc and process asylum applications far outside their borders

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Attorneys for 1,353 people who allege that they suffered horrific abuse at the hands of local Catholic priests reached the settlement after months of negotiations

Houthis have targeted ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden

European support of Ukraine to dominate quick Biden state visit to Germany

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made public his “Victory Plan” on Wednesday; a plan that outlines steps Zelenskyy believes Ukraine and its Western allies should take in order to end the war Russia started in 2022. Is a nuclear confrontation between Iran and Israel inevitable? Abortion continues to be a hotly debated topic in the U.S., but with the overturning of Roe V. Wade, it has become front and center of electoral politics. Viktor Orban is facing strong criticism from inside...

Genaro García Luna was Mexico's former public security chief

Scientists say beef production takes a heavy toll on the environment. Cattle produce methane, a powerful planet-warming gas, and forests get cut down for pastures. But one farm in northern Colombia hopes to show ranching can have a lighter footprint on the planet.

Board's moves had drawn bipartisan criticism

In any election campaign, candidates and the public rely on opinion polls to comprehend the state of the race and inform their actions and choices. But polls can be confusing, contradictory, and, historically, even occasionally flat-out wrong.

She began with $5,000 and turned it into $100 million and a half century of helping girls and women achieve their athletics dreams

Political family matriarch endured decades of family tragedies but remembered as a 'spitfire'

As the Republic of Georgia prepares for a crucial election on October 26, Russia’s influence looms over the vote. As Henry Ridgwell reports from Tbilisi, the former Soviet republic is struggling to carve out a new future aligned to the West as it tries to reconcile its troubled past.

Fuel prices in Nigeria have gone up 15% since September, with some Nigerians spending up to 70% of their salaries on transportation

For all their differences, neither team plans to make personnel decisions before Nov. 5, and both teams are lying low so as not to distract from their candidates

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told lawmakers Wednesday that Ukraine’s Western partners are increasing pressure to negotiate with Russia, but he hinted such talks would be unfavorable to Kyiv as he unveiled what he called his “victory plan” for the war. President Biden announces a new Ukraine security assistance program, but Ukraine’s future may likely be decided by the U.S. election. We talk with Doug Klain, a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and policy analyst for...

Officials see connections between terror plots in US, France