Liberals look for a new prime minister as Trump threatens tariffs and an election looms

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation after facing an increasing loss of support both within his party and in the country. Now Trudeau’s Liberal

Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, tapping an Italian nun

Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible

TikTok creators left in limbo while awaiting decision on potential platform ban

Will TikTok be banned this month? That’s the pressing question keeping creators and small business owners in anxious limbo as they await a decision that

Hezbollah leader Nasrallah was killed last year inside the war operations room, aide says

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike last year while inside the militant group’s war operations room, according to new details Sunday

Shooting attack on a bus carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank kills three

Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Israelis in the occupied West Bank yesterday, killing at least three people and wounding seven others. Violence has surged in the

Ukraine will ask allies to boost its air defenses at a meeting in Germany, Zelenskyy says

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will again call on allies to boost its air defenses at last week’s meeting in Germany, as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump

Chancellor Nehammer says he will resign after talks on forming a new government fail

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Saturday he will resign in the coming days after talks on forming a new government failed a second time. The

Heavy snow brings widespread disruption across the UK and Germany

Heavy snow and freezing rain brought widespread disruption across Europe yesterday, particularly in the U.K. and Germany, with several major airports forced to suspend flights

The world welcomes 2025 with light shows, embraces and ice plunges

From Sydney to Mumbai to Paris to Rio de Janeiro, communities around the world welcomed 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges. The

A new year dawns on a Middle East torn by conflict and change

In Damascus, the streets were buzzing with excitement earlier this week as Syrians welcomed in a new year that seemed to many to bring a promise

Treasury says Chinese hackers remotely accessed workstations, documents in ‘major’ cyber incident

Chinese hackers remotely accessed several U.S. Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider, the agency said earlier this week.

Gunman who killed at least 12 people in a shooting rampage in Montenegro dies by suicide

At least four others were wounded in the shooting rampage in the western town of Cetinje on Wednesday that followed a bar brawl, officials said. The shooter,

Democracies across the globe are at a crossroads, as authoritarians seek to chip away at freedoms

In November, the world’s most powerful democracy elected as its next president a man who schemed to overturn its last presidential election. A month later, South

Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term

A butterfly collector in Africa with more than 4.2 million seeks to share them for the future

What began as a childhood hobby more than six decades ago has led to what might be Africa’s largest butterfly collection in a suburb of Kenya’s capital.

Belgium will ban sales of disposable e-cigarettes in a first for the EU

Belgium will ban the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes as of Jan. 1 on health and environmental grounds in a groundbreaking move for European Union nations. Health

Christmas market attack claims lives in Magdeburg

Four women and a 9-year-old boy were killed and 200 people were injured when a man drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers in the

Stampedes at charity events in Nigeria leave 67 dead, many of them children

Stampedes during three Christmas charity events across Nigeria have left at least 67 people dead in the past week, many of them children. Families are struggling

Pope Francis calls for a ceasefire on all fronts in his prayer ahead of Christmas

Pope Francis called for a ceasefire on all war fronts in his Sunday Angelus prayer ahead of Christmas, condemning the “cruelty” of bombing schools and hospitals in Ukraine and Gaza.

Washington effort to curb China’s and Russia’s access to advanced computer chips ‘inadequate’

The Commerce Department’s efforts to curb China’s and Russia’s access to American-made advanced computer chips have been “inadequate” and will need more funding to stymie their ability

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