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With a high-profile political assassination attempt over the weekend, is Colombia getting any closer to “total peace”?

Progress roundup: Captive-bred salamander can survive in the wild, and old fynbos seeds will germinate, sowing science’s hope for habitat re...

Judge Omar Weslati helped start a library for students in Bir El Euch, Tunisia. Other libraries soon followed.

South Africa’s unlikely coalition government has survived a year. Few thought that possible.

Israel says the body of Nattapong Pinta was retrieved in a special military operation. He had come to Israel to work in agriculture.

The election of Lee Jae-myung heralds a foreign policy shift for South Korea as the country seeks to balance its critical U.S. security alli...

In the wake of the United States’ aid cuts, which supported projects in agriculture and food security across Zimbabwe, locals are devising t...

More than a century after Arab revolutionaries blew up the Ottomans’ prized Hejaz Railway, located in the geographic heart of the Middle Eas...

El Salvador’s president escalated crackdowns on protest and civil society in May, prompting the question “Why now?”

Donald Trump makes the Indo-Pacific the U.S. military’s top priority in his “America First” foreign policy, but Asian allies are unsettled b...

New Zealand legislators suspended three Māori lawmakers on June 5 after they performed a Haka, a chanting dance of challenge. The lawmakers...

After a tighter-than-expected presidential election, Lee Jae-myung aims to restore stability to a nation wracked by months of political uphe...

Ukraine’s asymmetric drone attack caught the world’s attention and dealt a significant blow to Russia’s defense. Peace prospects may hinge o...

Poland has enormous potential within Europe. But it seems to be of two minds of how to realize that potential, which may be hindering its pr...

The Russian military has turned to a grim strategy in Kherson: targeting civilians in drone attacks. Still, many local Ukrainians refuse to...

Progress roundup: Antarctica’s newest research base lowers fossil fuel use, a medieval Italian village welcomes its bears, and more.

Despite taking the lead in pro-democracy protests this winter, South Korean women are struggling to gain political power and gender equality...

An eventual return home is an ideal woven into the migration experience. But a trail of migrants leaving the United States under President D...

A Ukrainian drone attack has destroyed more than 40 Russian planes deep in Russia’s territory, Ukraine’s Security Service said on Sunday, wh...

The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels. Satur...

Israeli and Palestinian peace activists are swimming against the tide, but they are not giving up.

Rice is a household staple in Japan, but supermarkets have been having trouble keeping shelves stocked after a wave of panic buying last sum...

The latest attempt to hash out an end to the war in Ukraine looks set for Monday, but Russia, Ukraine, and the United States all still seem...

Hind Kabawat, part of Syria’s 23-member cabinet, feels hope for Syria’s future after U.S. and E.U. sanctions were lifted. Temporary schools...

Twenty-five years after the seizure of thousands of white-owned farms, Zimbabwe has begun paying back farmers whose land was taken.