Police fired tear gas on protesters Friday in Abkhazia amid anger over a proposed deal with Moscow some fear will spoil the breakaway Georgian region's natural beauty.

Federal Reserve officials are keeping the market on its toes over its rate-cutting plans. Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank would approach its decision “carefully” at a talk in Dallas on ...

Police made 40 arrests at a tense football match between France and Israel in Paris but the city's police chief said on Friday the huge security operation had "worked very well".

A fire erupted overnight in a retirement home in the northeastern Spanish town of Villafranca de Ebro killing at least 10 people, the emergency services said on Friday.

A South Korean court handed the country's opposition leader a suspended prison sentence Friday for violating election laws -- a ruling that may prevent him from running in the next presidential ...

Oil executives descended on the COP29 talks in Baku for "energy day" on Friday as environmental groups denounced the presence of fossil fuel industry lobbyists at the UN climate talks.

A French convict accused of being a major drugs gangland figure vanished without a trace after an armed attack in May left two prison officers dead. Six months later, Mohamed Amra and the gunmen who ...

In the pantheon of global gatherings, the G20 is the main forum for economic and financial cooperation -- areas increasingly tested by today's shifting geopolitics.

A building in Beirut's southern suburbs collapsed in a gigantic cloud of smoke and dust following a strike attributed to ...

Former US vice president Al Gore believes a second Donald Trump term in the White House may have little impact on the ...

As German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats grapple with plummeting support ahead of a snap election in February, ...

Three Russians were sentenced to more than a decade in prison on Friday over attempting to sabotage railway lines on orders from Ukraine, Russian officials said.