This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The world’s next country?” ...

Staten Island, a borough of some 500,000 people connected to Manhattan by ferry and to Brooklyn by bridge, is almost entirely ...

“Ukraine is committed to the NPT (the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons ); we do not possess, develop or intend to acquire nuclear weapons,” foreign ministry spokesperson Heorhii ...

With Iraq considering lowering the marriage age for girls to nine, Newsweek looks at marriage and consent laws around the ...

One of the maps shows the standard work week length across the world – revealing that the UK has one of the shortest. The ...

As the U.K. debates the topic, data mapped by Newsweek shows which nations have already legalized various forms of assisted ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they ...

Indonesia said on Monday it does not recognise China's claims over the South China Sea, despite signing a maritime ...

Among those paying their respects in central London today, at an event led by the King, was a 104-year-old war heroine whose awards include France's highest.

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Former President Donald Trump will return to the White House after securing victories in several battleground states.

Jon Stewart’s “quick message” to election pollsters was an expletive-laden, scream-filled rant that coincided with the result ...