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Alex Saab, one of ousted President Nicolás Maduro’s most important fixers, is back in US custody for the second time. His ...

For the past three years, Nicaraguan authorities have held Brooklyn Rivera, the country’s most prominent Indigenous leader, ...

Artillery barrages and airstrikes landed across Lebanon Thursday, including the coastal city of Tyre. Israel claimed it was targeting Hezbollah. The Lebanese health ministry says that at least 16 ...

Soccer fans are anxiously awaiting the June 11 start of the North America World Cup. But scandalously high prices have dampened some spirits. This World Cup isn’t just record-breakingly expensive.

AI-generated LEGO videos have become one of the most unexpected propaganda tools in the current Iran war. The clips use humor, memes and video-game-style animation to mock global leaders, while ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says the government will invest $75 million to pave and improve a highway running through a largely untouched section of the Amazon. That’s fueling ...

Firefighters put out the fire in a residential neighborhood following a Russian missile and drone attack, in Brovary, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, March 14, 2026. Efrem Lukatsky/AP/File photo Residents of ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has been walking across the globe for his project, Out of Eden Walk. And he marks ...

Writer and National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is on a 24,000-mile (38,000-kilometer) storytelling trek across the world called the “Out of Eden Walk.” The National Geographic Society, committed ...

Rising geopolitical tensions are complicating an already fragile dynamic on the European island of Cyprus — a country that remains militarily divided between the Turkish Cypriot north and the Greek ...

South African musician Bakithi Kumalo is back on the road again with Paul Simon this summer playing tunes from Simon’s vast ...