PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A spike in violence has deepened hunger and poverty in Haiti while hindering the very aid organizations combating those problems in a country whose government struggles to provide basic services. Few relief workers are willing to speak on the record about the...

UN special envoy Geir Pedersen called Sunday for a “step for step” approach in finding a political solution to Syria’s conflict, following his tour of Europe, the US, and Arab states. Several rounds of United Nations-brokered negotiations in Geneva since 2019 between the government and...

LONDON (AP) — The British government may need to introduce tougher restrictions to slow the growth of the omicron variant and prevent a new surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths, British scientists said Saturday. U.K. health officials say omicron is spreading much more quickly than...

Russian air strikes have killed three people and injured 12 others, including women and children, in northwest Syria's Idlib, a UK-based Syrian war monitor said on Friday. The strikes hit targets in al-Yaaqubiyah area on the outskirts of the rebel-held town of Jisr al-Shughur, the...