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Yaraslau Mikheyeu/iStock(BIALYSTOK, Poland) -- Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel talked with Belarus' authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, on Wednesday, as part of a burst of European diplomat...

iStock(LONDON) -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson commented in a meeting Tuesday with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis that the decision to return the famous Parthenon marbles to Greece would be ...

Cavan Images/Getty Images(BELLINGHAM, Wash.) -- Devastating flooding in western Canada forced 184 people to evacuate overnight in Abbotsford in British Columbia, Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun said. Bil...

E_Rojas/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A self-portrait by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was sold for almost $35 million, including fees, at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Tuesday. This portrait, titled 'Die...

State Department photo by Ron Przysucha(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is running headfirst into a number of fires as he makes his first trip to Africa as America's top diplomat...

United States Space Command(WASHINGTON) -- The United States on Monday condemned a Russian anti-satellite test against one of its own satellites that the U.S. said created a field of more than 1,500 p...

iStock/AndreyPopov(NEW YORK) -- Hundreds of migrants moved to a crossing point on the border between Belarus and Poland on Monday, encouraged by Belarusian security forces in what Poland's government ...

Juanmonino/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Around 150 former Afghan Air Force pilots and personnel, who were trapped in Tajikistan for months after fleeing Afghanistan, have been airlifted by the United States ou...

iweta0077/iStock(LONDON) -- Queen Elizabeth II canceled a planned public appearance Sunday after spraining her back. In a statement, Buckingham Palace said the queen "has decided this morning with gre...

iStock/chonticha wat(GLASGOW, Scotland) -- Leaders from nearly every country in the world have converged upon Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference that experts ar...