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Pope Francis sounded a stark warning about the future of the Amazon and its peoples during a visit to the…

While the Baghdad government last month declared victory over Islamic State after wresting back almost all the territory IS seized…

Rights lawyer Yu Wensheng has been detained by Chinese authorities, hours after circulating a letter calling for constitutional reforms. Yu…

A recent series of gruesome rapes and murders has sparked outrage in northern India. The incidents are the latest for…

Angela Merkel has defied many forecasts of her looming political demise in 12 years as German chancellor. And nearly four…

The head of the US military’s Pacific command called China a disruptive power in the Indo-Pacific region on Thursday and…

A young protest leader calling for Hong Kong’s independence from China appeared in court on the rare charge of rioting…

The grandparents of 13 starved and tortured children say their son’s family looked happy and healthy when they last visited…

What makes a private sexual encounter newsworthy? A little-known website raised that very question after publishing an unidentified woman’s vivid…

Leading British anti-EU campaigner Nigel Farage rowed back on Wednesday from remarks favoring a second referendum on Brexit, a week…