The Latin American nation is poised to swing right as nationalist lawyer and political novice Abelardo de la Espriella will succeed the country’s first leftist President, Gustavo Petro.

Confirmed Ebola cases in the outbreak in eastern Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths, officials said, and tracing those who've been in contact with patients remains a major challenge.

Former Justice Minister Park Sung-jae was sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday for his role in former President Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law bid.

While Kyiv’s fortunes have brightened in other ways in the war, Moscow’s forces are raining bombs and drones on “fortress belt” cities like Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

The whole process looked in doubt after President Trump threatened fresh ‌attacks on Iran, and Tehran said it had closed the Strait of Hormuz again. Then Iranian negotiators said progress had actually been made in the first session of talks,

A Libyan warlord has been convicted of human rights violations reportedly committed at a detention facility in the country’s west, authorities said, over a year after Italy deported him despite an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court.

Police discovered 3 tons of cocaine in plastic tubs buried in underground bunkers that were concealed by false floors.

France gritted its teeth Monday for a week of record-busting temperatures, sweltering under a grueling heat wave that combines daytime highs above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and sleep-robbing sweaty nights.