Italy’s conservative government on Thursday has approved a school decree limiting classrooms to 30% of students with insufficient Italian-language skills and banning full-face Islamic veils, including burqas and niqabs.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump has cooled as they disagree on how to handle the conflict with Iran.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the alliance is capable of handling sabotage and drone incidents in Europe and has good action plans in place.

The Committee to Protect Journalists says that 19 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire who it had previously identified as journalists or media workers were actually militants or participants in combat.

Allegations of Israeli genocide in Gaza are not only false but “the biggest lie of the century" — so says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

African leaders at the United Nations General Assembly are demanding reform of the Security Council to include permanent seats for African countries.

Mountain gorillas in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park are seeing their population grow, but their forest habitat is not expanding.

Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia has shattered a peace pact that ended a devastating two-year war in 2022.

Officials say that Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine have killed at least eight civilians.

Turkey has agreed to gradually withdraw forces from a strategic military base in northern Iraq and hand over control to the Iraqi government.

Provisional election results in Morocco show that the Authenticity and Modernity Party has won the largest number of seats in the country’s parliamentary election.

Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met on Thursday for important talks on the U.S.-China relationship.

The son of Israel’s ambassador to the United States has been gravely injured in a ramming attack in the occupied West Bank.

Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging world’s leaders to keep choking Russia’s revenues and impede its war efforts.

Argentine President Javier Milei reaffirms Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia’s first wartime parliamentary election, which further strengthened the Kremlin’s already-overwhelming legislative control, was a sign of public support for his policies.

The U.S.-backed Board of Peace is proposing a six-month, $2.45 billion plan to begin reconstruction and governance in Gaza as President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan struggles to stay afloat.

Iran’s president said Wednesday that his people have been ‘victims of terrorism’ by the United States.

Canada has a new posture on the planet’s biggest diplomatic stage as world leaders convene at the U.N. General Assembly this week.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Washington, where he was met with a rare planeside greeting from President Donald Trump, who was there to welcome his counterpart on the tarmac instead of waiting for him to drive up to the White House.

This year's powerful El Nino and the record heat it's driving could lead to nearly half a million more heat-related deaths worldwide by the end of February.

Millions of people face deadly climate-related disasters as international aid programs are slashed.

President David Adeang has reiterated his island nation’s name change before the world’s largest gathering of leaders at the United Nations.

Canada's top diplomat says her country is embracing its growing prominence as a champion of “middle powers” at the U.N. General Assembly.