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The U.S. Commerce Department announced Friday it will impose new sanctions on Cuba over its human rights record and its support of the Venezuelan government.

A New York City jury convicted the brother of the Honduran president Friday on cocaine trafficking charges in a massive drug conspiracy case. Prosecutors said

Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters took to the streets Friday wearing masks of President Xi Jinping, LeBron James and various cartoon characters in a show of

The Trump administration should have handled the conflict in Turkey and Syria with more careful consideration, Representative Dan Crenshaw, R-Tx., said Friday.

A climate change demonstrator climbed up the scaffolding of London’s Big Ben to drape two banners, calling for citizens to demand action.

At least 62 people have been killed in Afghanistan Friday after a bomb blast caused the roof of a mosque to cave in, reports say.

The famous Sagrada Familia basilica in the Catalan city of Barcelona in Spain that attacks thousands of visitors a day has been forced to close

As darkness descended on the streets of Barcelona, the mostly peaceful protests that paralyzed the Catalan city in northern Spain on Friday broke out into chaos

Britain's Parliament is set to vote Saturday on Prime Minister Boris Johnson's new deal with the European Union, a decisive moment in the prolonged bid

Mexican authorities say they backed off an attempt to capture a son of drug trafficker Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman after cartel gunmen unleashed a gunfight

The latest on Turkey's invasion of northern Syria (all times local): 4:20 p.m. EU Council President Donald Tusk says the "so-called" Syria cease-fire is "a

The Latest on Brexit (all times local): 2:15 p.m. French president Emmanuel Macron has expressed his hopes that the divorce deal between the European Union

The Latest on the situation in Catalonia (all times local): 3:10 p.m. Spain's interim prime minister says that mass protests in Catalonia over the imprisonment

A union representing cabin crew in Germany says it's expanding a planned strike Sunday at Lufthansa to include employees of the airline's subsidiaries.

Nationwide protests paralyzed Lebanon on Friday as demonstrators blocked major roads in a second day of rallies against the government's handling of a severe economic

A French resident flagged by the country’s counter-terrorism agency for expressing radical Islamic views has been arrested for allegedly threatening a 9/11-style plane hijacking and

Sudan's largest single rebel group Friday held its first round of direct peace talks with the country's transitional government, despite an earlier boycott following a

An international monitoring agency has given Pakistan four months to prove it is fighting terrorism financing and money laundering — or it could be put

Fighting continued Friday in and around a northeast Syrian border town at the center of the fight between Turkey and Kurdish forces, despite a U.S.-brokered

Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters are donning cartoon character masks as they form a human chain across the semiautonomous Chinese city, in defiance of a government

Spain's northeastern Catalonia region and its riot-swept regional capital, Barcelona, were paralyzed Friday by a mix of strikes and marches as it faced its fifth

Dozens of worshippers were gathered inside a mosque in eastern Afghanistan to offer Friday prayers when a mortar round fired by insurgents blasted through the