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The Kremlin said Friday that President Vladimir Putin is open to a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump after he is sworn in to office on Jan. 20.

Lebanon lawmakers elected army commander Joseph Aoun as the country’s first president in more than two years, picking a U.S.-backed candidate in a sign of Iran’s waning influence in the region.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a plea to press on with support for his war effort 11 days before the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who has pledged a swift end to the fighting. “We’ve come such a long way that it would honestly be crazy to drop the ball now and not keep building on the defense coalitions we’ve created,” Zelenskyy said during a meeting of ...

At her daily news conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday displayed a colonial-era map of North America — with much of what later became the United States still shown as part of Mexico.

QALANDIA CAMP, West Bank – The U.N. agency that provides aid and services to millions of Palestinians across the Middle East may soon be forced to end its operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as Israel prepares to enact twin laws banning the organization’s work in Israeli territory and prohibiting contact between its staff and government officials.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen put a positive spin on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s wish to buy Greenland, a self-ruling territory of Denmark. 

Israel's envoy for hostages met his North American and European counterparts on Tuesday at the start of two days of talks towards the release of dozens of people - and bodies - still being held by the Palestinian militant Hamas movement.

TEL AVIV, Israel — At least three Israelis have been killed and eight other people injured in an attack in the northern West Bank, Israeli rescue workers said on Monday. Two women and one man died while three people were injured, according to the ZAKA non-governmental rescue and recovery group. A suspected Palestinian attacker had fired at a bus from a vehicle in al-Funduq, west of the city of ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is resigning after more than nine years leading Canada, bowing to sagging approval numbers and a rebellion within his political party.

Hamas disclosed a list of 34 hostages it’s willing to return to Israel in the first phase of a potential ceasefire in Gaza, which the U.S. wants to achieve before President Joe Biden leaves office in two weeks.

For five years, Brazilians have lived under the sort of temporal tranquility that many Americans have long coveted. No clock changes, no scheduling confusions - the much-maligned daylight saving time banished by presidential decree.

South Korean anti-corruption investigators failed to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after a nearly six-hour standoff with his security team on Friday, showing tensions remain high even after he was impeached and suspended.

South Korean police searched offices and the airport where Sunday’s deadly plane crash occurred, as part of a series of raids on Thursday aimed at determining who is responsible for the disaster.

The holiday period is over and Canadian politics is gripped by a single question: when will the country hear from Justin Trudeau? 

The flow of natural gas from Russia to Europe was suspended Wednesday after Ukraine said it would not renew a deal allowing Russian gas to transit its territory, ending an energy supply route that dates back some 60 years.

Berlin and many other cities have welcomed the new year with spectacular shows and outdoor gatherings. Tens of thousands of revelers gathered in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, as fireworks lit the sky with color.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left hospital against his doctors’ advice to vote on a bill in parliament that would help fund the nation’s wars, legislation that has failed to get the backing of his entire coalition. Netanyahu left for the Knesset after National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, head of one of the coalition parties, said he and others in his party would oppose the ...