Hurricane Irma has devastated several Caribbean islands, with at least 24 fatalities and untold billions of dollars in property damage in one of the strongest storms ever to strike the region. Those hardest hit include Barbuda, both the Dutch and French sides of St. Martin, the U.S. and British...
She was once synonymous with the struggle against oppression. In accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, she called for “a world free from the displaced, the homeless and the hopeless.” But Aung San Suu Kyi has missed perhaps her greatest opportunity to make good on those words as the leader of Myanmar’s...
As international attention has shifted to the fight against Islamic State militants in eastern Syria, a little-noticed but bitter struggle continues on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus. There, government forces are determined to reclaim one of the last remaining urban areas controlled by...
Mexico on Thursday ordered North Korea’s ambassador to leave the country as punishment for Pyongyang’s recent nuclear tests. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto declared Ambassador Kim Hyong Gil persona non grata, granting him 72 hours to leave the country. A statement from Mexico’s Foreign Ministry...
Israeli airstrikes on Syria have become almost a matter of routine: Israel fires missiles on a target; Syria condemns the attack; Israel stays mum, neither acknowledging nor denying responsibility. Little seemed outwardly different Thursday, when Syria accused Israel of sneaking warplanes into...
Hurricane Irma decimated the small Caribbean island of Barbuda, ripping apart buildings, uprooting trees and killing at least one person as its 185 mph winds swept across the two-island nation best known for its pristine sandy beaches. And now Hurricane Jose is apparently about to deliver another...
It’s been almost a month since torrential rains caused widespread flooding and a mountainside to collapse on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, sending a blanket of mud into several communities. Life is gradually returning to normal, but residents of the devastated regions face...
Last month, California college student Miriam Juan stepped off a plane in Guadalajara, Mexico, and hugged her grandparents for the first time in 17 years. She had no words at first, just smiles and tears. An immigrant brought to the U.S. from Mexico at age 4, Juan was able to make the trip thanks...
Floridians hit the highways, scrambled for scarce supplies and hammered plywood over windows as a monster hurricane made landfall in the Caribbean, where it was blamed for at least four deaths. Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes, set a wild, wind-churned course toward...
Pope Francis arrived in Colombia on Wednesday for the first papal visit since 1986, the beginning of an intense, five-day trip in which he will try to bring a sharply divided nation together in the cause of peace. The pope’s Alitalia jet touched down at a military base next to Bogota’s El Dorado...
Brazil's top prosecutor has charged two former presidents with forming a criminal organization. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who served from 2003 to 2011, and his successor, Dilma Rousseff, who was impeached in 2016, were charged with diverting funds from state oil giant Petrobas and other public...
Israeli authorities appear to be moving closer to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an investigation in which he is suspected of bribery and breach of trust. On Tuesday, Israeli media reported that police had questioned Los Angeles-based film producer Arnon Milchan, a close friend of Netanyahu,...
The U.S. military in Afghanistan apologized Wednesday for distributing leaflets featuring an image “highly offensive” to Muslims. The leaflets dropped Tuesday night over parts of Parwan province showed the Shahada, the Muslim profession of faith, printed on the image of a dog, an animal viewed...
Brazil’s prosecutors broke the world’s biggest corruption scandal wide open with the help of one man. Joesley Batista, a billionaire who with his brother owns the world’s largest meatpacker, JBS, admitted in May to paying out more than $192 million in bribes to roughly 1,900 politicians in exchange...
Less than two weeks after Hurricane Harvey devastated parts of Texas and Louisiana, another “potentially catastrophic” storm was bearing down on the northeastern Caribbean and could threaten Florida later in the week, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday. Hurricane Irma had strengthened into...
Representatives of the United States, Mexico and Canada declared “progress” but unveiled no breakthroughs at the conclusion Tuesday of a second round of talks to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement Still unresolved are a number of controversial issues, including Washington’s desire for...
Pope Francis was scheduled to arrive in Colombia on Wednesday to urge reconciliation in a country deeply divided over the terms of a peace deal that the pontiff helped bring to fruition. The five-day visit — the first time a pope has traveled here since John Paul II came in 1986 — comes nine months...
The stench of human waste, rotting food and dirty, sweat-drenched clothes mixes with the swirling smoke from makeshift campfires. It is lunchtime at the Moria refugee camp, where desperate hopes for a better life have come to this. More than 3,500 people from the Middle East, Africa and Asia have...