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Donald Trump has said the U.S. “captured” Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, and flew them out of the South American country during a pre-dawn assault on Caracas and the surrounding region. The U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi, said the couple would face criminal...

Junta leader Gen. Mamdi Doumbouya was declared the winner of Guinea’s presidential election held over the weekend, according to incomplete results released late on Tuesday, the country’s first election since a 2021 coup. Doumbouya won 86.72% of the votes counted so far, according to the General...

Syrian authorities imposed an overnight curfew in the coastal city of Latakia following deadly attacks on predominantly Alawite neighborhoods as security tensions rise in the country’s western coastal region. Authorities in Latakia arrested 21 people allegedly linked to ousted leader Bashar al-Assad...

Legislators in Algeria voted to declare France’s colonization of the North African country a crime, approving a law that calls for restitution of property taken by France during its 130-year rule, among other demands seeking to redress historical wrongs. France slammed the law as a “hostile act”...

Tens of thousands of people on Thursday filled the streets of Bulgaria’s capital and other major cities in the country, calling for a fair election and an independent judiciary able to effectively fight widespread corruption. The demonstrations in Sofia and elsewhere came after last week’s protests...

Violence broke out in Bangladesh’s capital after a youth leader of the country’s 2024 pro-democracy uprising, who was injured in an assassination attempt, died in a hospital in Singapore. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Dhaka early on Friday after the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, 32...

President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on two more judges from the International Criminal Court (ICC) over their involvement in the court's case against Israel, ratcheting up Washington's pressure campaign against the war tribunal. In November 2024, ICC judges issued...

Top European officials have agreed to launch an international commission to compensate Kyiv for hundreds of billions of dollars in damage from Russia’s continuing war on Ukraine. The International Claims Commission for Ukraine, established in a treaty signed by 35 countries at Tuesday’s conference...

Mass protests have filled the streets of several Romanian cities for a fifth day in a row against alleged judicial corruption. Thousands took to the streets of the capital Bucharest and other cities on Sunday to show support for judges and prosecutors that denounced systemic abuse in the judicial...

Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast has won a run-off election to become Chile’s 38th president, ousting the center-left government currently in power. On Sunday, with nearly all the ballots counted, Kast prevailed with 58 percent of the vote, defeating former Labor Minister Jeannette Jara, a...