A delegation of senior State Department representatives traveled to Cuba via a U.S. government plane last week, officials said, a diplomatic opening amid intense pressure from the Trump administration.

The surge in optimism contrasts starkly with continued energy supply challenges that threaten long-lasting economic harm — and a market reckoning.

The most senior civil servant in Britain's Foreign Office has been fired former ambassador Peter Mandelson's security vetting not being disclosed.

Friday marked the half-way point in Leo’s 11-day tour of four African nations. He leaves Saturday for Angola, another country blessed with oil and other natural resources, but where a third of the population lives on less than $2.

We start with the U.S.-Israel war with Iran — a war that President Donald Trump said would end in two to three weeks. Now, in its seventh week, the Pentagon is sending 10,000 more troops to the Middle East to pressure Iran into making a peace deal.

An 85-year-old woman from France whose late husband was a U.S. veteran returned to France Friday after being detained by ICE for 16 days.

Ukraine is struggling to recover thousands of artworks and other cultural objects lost during Russia’s full-scale invasion. Missing records and lack of access to occupied territories make the

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said on Friday that a ceasefire agreed to ‌by his country should be transformed into "permanent agreements," without saying whether he was referring to a prospective peace deal with Israel.