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When the Trump administration slashed funding for international aid, it halved food rations for refugees in Kenya, like Ugandan Martin Komol...

Johannesburg’s central library recently reopened after a five-year closure, a signal of the city’s revival after years of decline.

India and Pakistan are both on campaigns to shape the global narrative about last month’s armed conflict. But within Pakistan, no such scram...

With the West now inhospitable to them, Russian tourists are finding new holiday opportunities in North Korea, Afghanistan, and other unlike...

China’s campaign to unify Taiwan with the mainland is now extending to a crackdown on Taiwanese who Beijing deems 'pro-independence.' 

Iran’s prewar economy was beleaguered, while Israel’s showed signs of recovery. A long conflict will test both their resilience.

The United States posed an obstacle to solidarity at the Group of Seven summit. But under Canada’s guidance, the group was able to make prog...

Despite their competition for regional influence, Arab states are not rooting for the Iranian regime’s fall. Led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE...

With emergency vehicles in short supply in Ukraine, volunteers are building armored ambulances to carry medics and soldiers around the battl...

The Knowledge, Solutions, Skills, and Kreativity school on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital provides six years of learning for students wh...

After 20 months of war in Gaza, Israelis had become somewhat accustomed to missile attacks. The barrage from Iran is causing vastly more dea...

How Iranians are dealing with Israeli airstrikes, which are inflicting unexpected destruction on military and civilian targets.

Everyone agrees the justice system in Mexico needs to be revamped. But where the ruling power sees its new reform as a leap forward, others...

International students are deleting social media posts and accounts as the Trump administration tightens visa rules and expands digital surv...

Louvre staff launched a strike on June 16 over “untenable” working conditions tied to overcrowding at France’s greatest cultural treasure. E...

Relations between Ottawa and Washington have hit the skids. That is presenting Canada an opportunity to rebuild its global influence, includ...

U.S.-Israeli foundation GHF claims it has delivered millions of food packs in Gaza. But stories abound of shooting and chaos near distributi...

Israel has long feared Iran’s nuclear program was geared toward developing a weapon. Now that Israel has overtly bombed nuclear sites, invit...

Keeping songbirds is a source of joy and pride for hundreds of thousands of Indonesians, but the tradition is also wreaking havoc on their e...

Israel said it attacked Iranian nuclear targets to ensure Tehran never makes a nuclear weapon. But Iran may see such a weapon as its only de...

President Donald Trump has cut aid to Africa and insulted one of its elder statesmen. Will that harm his search for rare earths essential to...

Hundreds lined the central square in Graz, Austria, for a minute of silence for the 10 people killed in a school shooting on June. In a sear...

No country recognizes the sovereignty of Somaliland, a self-governing region of Somalia. The Trump administration might soon change that. 

Syria’s Druze community is divided among those wanting to work with the government, those seeking autonomy, and others looking for outside a...

In the United Kingdom, millennials are bonding over an unusual shared touchpoint: the hymns they sang in their elementary school assemblies....