The unpopular Socialist leader’s approval rating has sunk to 4 percent.
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About 350 alleged victims have reported accusations possibly spanning decades.
Thailand has a new king, with the country’s crown prince formally taking the throne to succeed his much-revered late father, who reigned for 70 years.
The prime minister and an ex-cricket star square off in a legal battle over corruption.
A habit that drives the Internet wild.
"Globalization is not going to end with Mr. Trump. The United States cannot and will not isolate. It is not possible.”
During his campaign, the president-elect Donald Trump vowed to move the seaside embassy — and pronto.
Exploding vehicles have been the defensive tactic of choice for militants battling the Iraqi advance.
The president-elect’s business ties with India and lack of foreign-policy expertise remain concerns.
The Kremlin leader focused his annual address on consolidating society, avoiding upheaval.
Merera Gudina spoke out earlier this month in Brussels against the campaign of arrests in Ethiopia.
The North American economy is a vast web. Unraveling it risks big blow to consumers.
The vote comes nearly two months after the peace pact failed in a national referendum.
Accounts from the surviving crew describe chaos and darkness in final moments.
He recently professed his innocence after a former model accused him of raping her three decades ago.
Children are dying as conflict pushes the Middle East’s poorest country closer to a famine.
Kids across the country run, jog or walk a mile every school day — in addition to regular physical education.
Haitian voters appear to have reached outside the political class to pick a first-time candidate to steer the deeply divided country.
Hundreds feared missing amid mass detentions; dozens reported killed in government shelling.
From the Wires
Thailand’s new king on Friday carried out his first official duty, attending a solemn religious ceremony to honor his father and predecessor who died seven weeks ago.
Russian emergencies workers are combing the mountains near the border with Mongolia for the debris of a cargo spaceship that crashed minutes after its launch.
Chinese coast guard ships have rescued two Filipino fishermen in bad weather at a disputed shoal, the Philippine coast guard said Friday, in a show of how President Rodrigo Duterte has turned once-frosty relations with Beijing.
South Korea’s main opposition parties say they will push for a vote next Friday on President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment.
The single dirt street in El Guayabo runs past a few dozen cinderblock homes, the medical clinic and the primary school to a grove of 76 trees planted to honor Fidel Castro on his 76th birthday.
Austria holds presidential elections on Sunday in a contest pitting a left-leaning contender against a right-winger supported by a populist anti-immigration party. Beyond the contest for the largely ceremonial office, the vote is being watched in other EU countries as a barometer of how well their populist candidates will do in upcoming elections. A look at the candidates and the issues:
