The Kremlin says President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will speak by telephone on Tuesday

Rio de Janeiro has canceled its New Year’s Eve party due to renewed COVID-19 fears

Police say at least 21 people died after a bus carrying choir members to a wedding plunged into a river in Kenya on Saturday

Kremlin says Biden, Putin to have call Tuesday as tensions escalate over Russian buildup on border with Ukraine

Israeli police shot a Palestinian after an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man was stabbed and wounded near Damascus Gate just outside Jerusalem’s Old City

Thousands of protesters have gathered in Belgrade and other Serbian towns and villages to block roads and bridges despite police warnings and an intimidation campaign launched by authorities against the participants

Pope Francis was heckled by an elderly priest as he arrived for a meeting in Athens with the head of the country’s Orthodox church

German authorities say five bodies with gunshot and stabbing wounds have been found Saturday in a house just outside Berlin

Gambians have shown up to vote in high numbers for the first presidential election in decades that does not include former dictator Yahya Jammeh as a candidate

Valérie Pécresse, the head the Paris region and a former conservative minister, has been chosen to run in France’s presidential race for The Republicans party

Indonesia's highest volcano on Java island has spewed thick columns of ash, searing gas and lava down its slopes in a sudden eruption triggered by heavy rains

Pope Francis has warned that the “easy answers” of populism and authoritarianism threaten democracy in Europe and called for fresh dedication to promoting the common good

The leaders of right-wing populist parties are meeting in Warsaw to discuss working together to bring change to the European Union

A local official in central Mali says gunmen attacked a truck carrying civilians in central Mali, killing at least 31 people

Through clouds of billowing dust, two men circle each other warily before one plunges forward, grabbing his rival’s clothing

French President Emmanuel Macron has met Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the final leg of a two-day Gulf tour

The new head of Hong Kong’s Catholic diocese has expressed hope that he could foster healing in a congregation and a city divided by the continuing fallout from massive anti-government protests in 2019

A Sudanese pro-democracy group has condemned comments by the U_N_ chief urging citizens to support a deal that reinstated Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok so the country can have “a peaceful transition towards a true democracy.”

Officials say police have arrested 13 suspects and detained dozens of others in the lynching of a Sri Lankan employee at a sports equipment factory in eastern Pakistan

A female judge was hiding from the newly empowered Taliban in Afghanistan when an apparent reading mistake 7,000 miles away changed her life

Police have shot and killed a man in an Arab town in northern Israel who had allegedly been involved in a car-ramming attack that wounded two officers

A tropical storm has weakened after dumping heavy rains overnight in parts of southern India off the Bay of Bengal as more than 50,000 people evacuated to government-run camps

Mexican immigration authorities say they have discovered 210 migrants packed into a truck trailer in the central part of the country

The prime minister of Laos has ridden the first run of a $5.9 billion Chinese-built train connecting his isolated, mountainous country with southern China

Ukraine; Over 94,000 Russian troops at border.