A panel sponsored by the United Nations said aid to Afghanistan should be made conditional to ensure women’s rights are protected under its new Taliban rulers

Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has been released from a jail in Sardinia after a judge ruled that he could go free ahead of an Oct. 4 extradition hearing

Data from the CDC on the new K-12 school year bolster the agency’s recommendation for masks in schools and in-person classes

Tens of thousands of environmental activists have rallied outside Germany’s parliament two days before the country holds a national election and demanded that politicians take stronger action to curb climate change

Only five women addressed the United Nations General Assembly in the first half of its session this year

The chief financial officer of Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies is preparing to resolve the criminal charges against her

President Joe Biden is meeting with leaders of an Indo-Pacific alliance known as “the Quad” as he wraps up a difficult week of diplomacy with both allies and adversaries

Polish border guards say an Iraqi migrant has died near Poland's border with Belarus and another has been hospitalized with COVID-19

Lebanon’s president is asking the international community for assistance to help the country recover from one of the worst financial crises the world has seen in modern history

The Associated Press with Spanish-language broadcaster Univision accompanied the conservation group Sea Shepherd this summer on an 18-day voyage to observe up close for the first time the Chinese distant water fishing fleet on the high seas off South America

Brazil is in the throes of its worst drought in 91 years, which has returned the specter of power rationing

The European Union is warning Russia against allowing hackers to attack data bases or spread disinformation in the bloc just as Germans prepare to go the polls for parliamentary elections

Doctors, nurses and other health care workers in Poland have been camping out in front of the prime minister’s offices for nearly two weeks to protest working conditions and demand higher wages

A volcano in Spain’s Canary Islands is keeping nerves on edge for a fifth day since it erupted, producing loud explosions, a huge ash cloud and cracking open a new fissure that spewed out more fiery molten rock

Russian election authorities have officially announced the final results of last week’s parliamentary vote, in which the Kremlin’s party retained its supermajority amid widespread reports of violations and incidents of voter fraud