Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made an urgent appeal Thursday for $5.5 billion to prevent a “catastrophe” for 34 million people in over three dozen countries who are just one step away from famine driven by conflict. The U.N. chief told a high-level U.N. Security Council meeting...

Leading European and Arab world diplomats announced potential “small steps” Thursday toward reviving Mideast peace efforts after upcoming Israeli and Palestinian elections. The officials — from the U.N., EU, Egypt, Jordan, Germany and France — did not release any specific...

Sudan's prime minister held talks with the Egyptian president in Cairo on Thursday as both nations seek to build a united front in the ongoing dispute over the controversial dam that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile. Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi...

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Helping her elderly father beat back his coronavirus infection on her own taught Arta Jashari how the power of one can offer hope to others and change things for the better. The 32-year-old soprano took it upon herself to treat her father, Baki Bashari — the...