Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro uses controversial elections to hold onto power as the US condemns the vote and vows new sanctions.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resigns, and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro pushes ahead with plans for a controversial election on Sunday.
Russia inks a deal with Syria to keep its air base there for the next 49 years, and a new study links violence in Central America to adolescent migration to the US.
A new study underscores the health risks associated with contact sports – and it's not just professional athletes who are affected.
Analysts predict that a global oil glut will drag on through 2018 as production increases outpace demand.
President Trump's pledge to achieve 4 percent GDP growth just got more challenging, as the IMF cuts the US growth forecast to 2.1 percent.
EU officials wrestle over whether to punish Poland over new Supreme Court restrictions, and the UN measures progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Treasury Department fines ExxonMobil $2 million for signing deals with a sanctioned Russian official during Rex Tillerson's time as CEO.
A new State Department report accuses Iran of being the world's top state sponsor of terrorism, and Benjamin Netanyahu falls victim to the 'hot mic.'
A new report documents a major increase in civilian casualties in President Trump's fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
The new head of the World Health Organization says universal healthcare coverage is a human right. And a new study finds US healthcare lags behind ten other developed nations.
During a visit to France, President Trump suggests the U.S. could remain in the Paris Agreement after all. And aid groups launch a joint campaign to tackle famine in four countries.
The US envoy to the Middle East claims victory in brokering a deal in which Israel will sell water to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the world's largest solar plant comes online.
Chinese troops deploy to the country's first overseas military base, Rex Tillerson tries shuttle diplomacy to ease the Qatar crisis, and a near miss at SFO.
President Trump's scheduled visit to the United Kingdom has been postponed for 2018, and a South Korean legislator claims North Korea's missile test was less than it appeared.
The Trump administration commits $639 million to address famine in four countries, and Ukraine seeks to speed up the NATO membership process.
The E.U. and Japan stole the headlines at the G20 summit on Thursday, showing off a brand new free trade deal that compares with NAFTA is scope and scale.
Nikki Haley threatened North Korea with military force on Wednesday, but experts believe such a strategy is no more attractive now than it's ever been.
France follows Italy's lead in mandating vaccines for children after a recent measles outbreak, and the EU and Japan demonstrate that major free trade deals are still possible.
Five African countries say they'll each deploy a thousand troops to battle jihadis in Mali, and Al-Jazeera pushes back against demands to shutter the global news network.