The United Nations named British diplomat and academic Tom Fletcher as head of its humanitarian agency on Wednesday, as the organization grapples with unprecedented crises and budget pressures.

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Hezbollah told the Lebanese authorities it accepted a ceasefire with Israel the day an Israeli strike killed its leader Hassan Nasrallah, a government source told AFP on Wednesday.

Hezbollah on Wednesday said its fighters targeted Israeli forces in a south Lebanon border village, shortly after saying Israeli soldiers tried to advance in the area.

The German government slashed its 2024 forecast Wednesday, saying Europe's largest economy will contract for a second straight year before a recovery gets under way in 2025.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell has long been a thorn in Donald Trump’s side. In an interview with Barron’s, Scott Bessent, a close ...

A Spanish couple are under investigation in Singapore after protesting in the Asian city state against the Singaporean owner of Spanish first division football club Valencia, Peter Lim.

The UN Human Rights Council voted Wednesday to extend its probe into alleged rights abuses in the devastating war raging in ...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky will visit Berlin on Friday for talks with Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the war against Russia, a German government spokeswoman said.

With Hurricane Milton bearing down on Florida, the state's tourism golden egg -- Disney World -- remains open Wednesday, if only for a few, wet hours.

A Ukrainian soldier who fled his army unit in protest over the lack of term limits for long-serving troops has been arrested for desertion, investigators said Wednesday.

Three Kosovo Serbs went on trial on Wednesday over an armed incursion a court heard was part of a plot to seize Serb-majority ...