As Greece announces a three-month pause on accepting asylum applications from people arriving by sea from North Africa, and plans to immediately detain those reaching Greece via the Mediterranean Sea, ...

Global trade grew by around $300 billion in the first half of the year due to US imports and EU exports, the United Nations ...

The attack on the Eternity C, which also killed at least three of the crew, represents the most serious assault carried out ...

The Trump administration has announced it is issuing sanctions against an independent investigator tasked with probing human ...

Europe’s top human rights court has delivered a series of rulings against Russia, stating in the first ruling that Russia has ...

The world's population is expected to peak at 10.3 billion in 2084 and then decline to 10.2 billion through the end of the century.

Flowers tucked on its side, a blue truck carried coffins with the remains of seven newly identified victims of the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica on their final journey through Bosnia to be buried on the ...

A Liberian-flagged cargo ship attacked by Yemen's Houthi rebels sank Wednesday in the Red Sea, with a European naval force in the Mideast saying only six of the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is hosting five West African leaders at a “multilateral lunch” as their region reels from the ...

China has adopted a policy of strategic ambiguity towards the conflict in Ukraine, allowing Beijing to support Russia while avoiding a direct confrontation with the West.