Brazilian authorities are scrambling to stop a wave of prison violence that has killed at least 125 inmates in two weeks, many with their heads cut off or their hearts and intestines ripped out. Three massacres and many smaller fatal clashes, all in northern states, have followed a pattern that...

Russia is engaging in aggressive and destabilizing actions that are threatening the rules-based international order, Samantha Power said Tuesday in her last major speech as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. In a blistering and detailed critique of Russia's foreign and military policies,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful PYD militia on Tuesday has freed senior official in the political National Kurdish Council after 5 months of detention in the northeastern city of Qamishli, fellow official said. Engineer Mohamed Ismail was kidnapped by the Kurdish Democratic Party during a funeral of...

Germany's foreign minister said Tuesday that British Prime Minister Theresa May had "finally brought a bit more clarity" with a highly anticipated speech on her government's Brexit plans. Seven months after the referendum to leave the EU, Brexit "still has not been formalized," said...