As the US increases deportation flights to crack down on illegal immigration, some Latin American nations are complaining ...

Lebanon has a new government for the first time in more than two years, but the US has warned the country that it would consider any presence of Hezbollah in the new Cabinet as a red line. Hezbollah, ...

Dust off your old science textbook from grade school and you’ll probably find a familiar illustration of the Earth sliced in half, revealing the planet’s layers, from the crust down to the core — ...

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US President Donald Trump meets with Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House as Trump’s plan to forcibly remove Palestinians in Gaza to Jordan and Egypt is met with regional and global ...

US President Donald Trump met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in a closed-door meeting at the White House today. The meeting comes as Trump’s plan to forcibly remove Palestinians in Gaza to Jordan and ...

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan named 2025 as the “Year of the Family,” unveiling financial incentives for new parents and urging couples to have at least three children. Over the past two ...

The movie “Emilia Pérez” has received 13 Oscar nominations — a record for a non-English movie. But two weeks ahead of the Academy Awards ceremony, the film is mired in controversy over offensive ...

Around 50 parties will be competing for votes in Germany’s parliamentary elections, from the big-name Social Democrats and Christian Democrats to the tiny Gray Panthers, Humanists and Pirates to the ...

China recorded a more than 20% drop in marriage registrations in 2024. The steep decline comes despite enticements and admonishments from Chinese authorities who warn that China’s falling birthrate ...

A rare bloom of a corpse flower — with a pungent odor similar to decaying flesh — has attracted big crowds to a botanical garden in the Australian capital Canberra, the third such extraordinary ...

The global nongovernmental organization Transparency International has just released its 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). Its findings are sobering: 47 countries out of the 180 it surveyed had ...