German conservative leader Friedrich Merz failed to garner the parliamentary majority needed to become chancellor on Tuesday in a first round of voting in an unexpected setback for his new coalition with the center-left Social Democrats. Merz, 69, who led his CDU/CSU conservatives to win a federal election in February…
Nearly 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa live without access to electricity, creating huge barriers to development. Not only…
Throughout his second term, US President Donald Trump has trained his focus on a sprawling but sparsely populated island…
Japan and China have accused each other of violating the airspace around the Japanese-controlled East China Sea islands, which…
One of Pope Francis’s “popemobiles” is being transformed into a mobile healthcare unit for children and sent to the…
In a dilapidated home on the outskirts of Havana, Heidy Sánchez shows off photos from a past life. She…
Marine salvage experts on Sunday began operations to recover from the seabed off Italy’s Sicilian coast the British-flagged superyacht…
Japan’s estimated child population has shrunk for the 44th straight year to a record low, government data showed Sunday,…
Israel’s security cabinet voted Sunday to expand military operations in Gaza and establish a new framework for the delivery…