As the US ramps up military pressure on Venezuela, the Maduro government is tightening its grip at home. Families of political prisoners describe disappearances, torture and a justice system that ...

There’s no shortage of negotiations about how to end the war in Ukraine. Tomorrow, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet with US envoy Steve Witkoff. And today, the Ukrainian leader met with ...

The NFL’s International Player Pathway program started in 2017 as a way for the league to bring talented athletes from other sports into the world of football. One of the athletes in the 2024 class, ...

In Hong Kong, officials announced today that more than 150 people are now confirmed dead after last week’s massive fire. The blaze gutted several high-rise apartment buildings in the Tai Po district.

Flooding across Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand has killed more than 900 people — and counting — in the past week. One of the worst-hit cities in the region is Hat Yai. Reporter Patrick Winn spoke ...

When scientists first found a black fungus growing at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, they were baffled. Now, a decade later, research has determined that not only is the fungus using the ...

Battling a shortage of skilled labor, Germany’s businesses are bringing in reinforcements: young foreigners training in the ...

China’s status as a global superpower was unimaginable just half a century ago. In the 1970s, the country was overwhelmingly ...

Wildfires burning across western and central Canada prompted the number of people evacuated to climb to more than 30,000. The conditions were hot and dry, similar to what was experienced in 2023, ...

Sea stars on the west coast of North America have been decimated by a wasting disease. For more than a decade, scientists did not know what was causing it. But new research published in the journal ...

The World take a look at a variety of environment stories in this holiday special. A new report finds that renewable energy sources made up more of the global electricity mix than coal for the first ...