Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has joined the parade of world leaders paying court to Cuba following the normalization of relations with the United States earlier this year -- marking the first time a Japanese premier had visited the Caribbean island nation. Abe flew to Havana from New York,...

Three people were shot dead and two were wounded during a shooting at a mall on Friday in northwest Washington state where authorities were searching for the gunman, several media outlets reported. Authorities initially said on social media that four people were killed in the shooting, that...

Petrobras is selling 90 percent of its shares in a natural gas pipeline network for $5.2 billion to NTS, a group led by Canadian asset management giant Brookfield, the Brazilian state-owned energy giant said Friday. The 2,048-kilometer (1,273-mile) long Nova Transportadora do Sudeste (NTS)...

The Taliban controls roughly one-tenth of Afghanistan, the U.S. said Friday, 15 years after it invaded the country to oust the extremist group. The group controls a small percentage of Afghanistan’s population “but they contest another 20 to 25 percent,” Army Gen. John Nicholson told...