Author: Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a four-day visit to the United States. It wasn’t that long ago he couldn’t get a U.S. visa.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to China marks the first visit to the country for a top U.S. diplomat in five years. But thawing relations may require more than diplomacy.

Using sports as a tool to draw positive attention to a country’s reputation is not a new tactic. Some Arab nations have been taking it to new heights.

British lawmakers published a report into whether former Prime Minister Boris Johnson misled Parliament about COVID lockdown parties. In a scathing report, they concluded he did.

The media mogul was Italy’s longest-serving premier despite scandals over sex-fueled parties and corruption allegations.

A day after a dam in southern Ukraine was badly damaged, some towns are submerged, structures swept away and mass evacuations are ongoing.

The leader of the mercenary Wagner Group dismissed claims by the Russian Defense Ministry that its troops killed more than 1,500 Ukrainian troops.

President Emmanuel Macron recently forced through a plan to raise the retirement age in France from 62 to 64.

Uganda enacted one of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world. See where sexual and gender minority rights are criminalized.