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Man says he returned because of his family; no reason given for his 3-month disappearance

Washington says it does not believe the weapon is a ‘game-changer’ in the nearly three-year war

Announcement comes a week and a half after President-elect Donald Trump said he intends to nominate loyalist Kash Patel for the job

Dozens of mysterious nighttime flights started in November and have raised growing concern among residents

African health officials credit the United States with helping in the fight against the pandemic

Using only the light on their mobile phones, wailing men and women examined disfigured bodies lying in a darkened hospital morgue in Syria's capital for signs of their relatives who had disappeared into Bashar al-Assad's notorious prison system, Reuters reported. Dozens of corpses - blackened, decomposing and missing limbs or heads - were found overnight by rescuers digging for hidden cells at Sednaya, a prison north of Damascus, where rights groups said torture and mass executions had been...

Russia’s war in Ukraine reached a standstill with Russian forces advancing and Ukraine struggling to counter, turning attention to a possible negotiated settlement in the new year under a new U.S. administration

Cambodia arrests suspected gunman after journalist dies from injuries sustained while investigating deforestation

A look at the best news photos from around the world.

What might Assad’s fall and support from Israel mean for the country’s Kurdish groups?

A Bushman who died in 2021 was buried this week after courts, under the previous government which was ousted in October, denied the family the right to bury him on his ancestral land

Secretary of state has previously said Biden administration was ‘severely constrained’ by decisions of Trump, previous presidents

Homesickness can be common among college students. Here, an article from the student newspaper at Southern New Hampshire University tells international students how to combat it. (November 2024) 

Spain, Portugal and Morocco are set to co-host the 2030 edition

This marks one of the most significant attacks on hard-line Taliban leaders since they returned to power in August 2021

Three MSF-run hospitals and a clinic will reopen less than a month after operations were suspended over threats to its staff

A new initiative is reshaping the lives of smallholder farmers and students in Malawi. The Home-Grown School Feeding Program is bridging the gap between agriculture and public primary schools, resulting in improved nutrition for students and economic empowerment for farmers. Lameck Masina reports.

In North India, vast tracts of land turned into wasteland in recent years as farmers abandoned cultivating their fields because it was unprofitable. Now some farmers have come together to restore these lands in an initiative that is helping rural women raise their income. Anjana Pasricha reports.

Futsal was invented in Uruguay almost a century ago to play indoor soccer or football on a basketball court. It’s become hugely popular and this year Ukrainian players medaled in the international Futsal championship. Omelyan Oshchudlyak has the story. (Video edited by Yuriy Dankevych )