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.

Pope Leo XIV is wrapping up his visit to Cameroon with a Mass in the capital Yaounde. President Paul Biya was among an estimated 200,000 people on hand for the celebration at Yaounde Airport,

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.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on three individuals and two firms for allegedly deploying Colombian mercenaries to fight with a paramilitary group in Sudan.

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.

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.