UN envoy: South Sudan government faces daunting challenges

Supreme Court divided in 1st big abortion case of Trump era

WASHINGTON — A seemingly divided Supreme Court struggled Wednesday with its first major abortion case of the Trump era, leaving Chief Justice John Roberts as the...

Netanyahu still short of majority after Israel’s election

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fallen short of capturing the majority needed to form a government, near-final election results showed Wednesday, deepening a year...

Japan opens part of last town off limits since nuclear leaks

Israel’s re-do election returns it to political limbo, again

JERUSALEM — Israel looked set to slide back into political deadlock on Wednesday as the final votes were being tallied from the third election in less...

Taliban-U.S. deal a step to fragile peace, says ex-Afghan envoy to Canada

OTTAWA — Omar Samad calls the agreement reached this past weekend between the United States and the Taliban a “peace opportunity,” not an actual deal. Afghanistan’s...

UN: World’s biggest humanitarian crisis in Syria northwest

TANZANIA, Tanzania — The top U.N. humanitarian official for Syria said Tuesday the crisis in northwest Idlib where nearly one million people have fled to avoid...

Tensions rise as US death toll from coronavirus reaches 9

SEATTLE — Tensions over how to contain the coronavirus escalated Tuesday in the United States as the death toll climbed to nine and lawmakers expressed doubts...

Trump says he spoke to a Taliban leader, had ‘good talk’

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday that he spoke on the phone to a Taliban leader, making him the first U.S. president believed to ever...

UN envoy warns Iraq is being ‘pushed into the unknown’

TANZANIA, Tanzania — The U.N. envoy for Iraq warned Tuesday that the country and its people are being “pushed into the unknown” by political indecisiveness and...