Americas

Two sisters in a New Delhi slum giggle as they read the matrimonial ads in the classifieds section of a crumpled newspaper picked up from the streets. Palak, 17, holds…

President Donald Trump is due to unleash fresh tariffs Saturday on major US trading partners Canada, Mexico and China — with Ottawa informed that levies will be effective within days.…

France will propose a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council on Friday that aims to “increase the pressure on Rwanda” to withdraw its troops from eastern Democratic Republic of…

A medical jet with six Mexican nationals onboard crashed into a busy Philadelphia neighborhood Friday, authorities said, marking another US aviation disaster after a passenger plane and a military helicopter…

Crews worked to pull the remains of the U.S.’ deadliest air disaster in two decades from Washington’s Potomac River on Friday, searching for the cause of an incident that has…

Nicaraguan strongman Daniel Ortega and his wife were granted control of all state powers Thursday under a constitutional amendment ratified by the country’s legislature that also elevated her to the…

A US commercial airliner with 64 people aboard and a military helicopter collided over Washington on Wednesday before crashing into the Potomac River. A rescue mission had turned into a…

A regional jet from Kansas crashed into Washington’s Potomac River after colliding mid-air with a military helicopter near Reagan National Airport, officials said Wednesday, prompting a major emergency response and…

US President Donald Trump unveiled a surprise plan Wednesday to detain thousands of undocumented migrants in Guantanamo Bay — distracting from spiraling confusion after the White House withdrew a shock…

A judge sentenced a powerful former US senator to 11 years imprisonment Wednesday, after he was convicted of corruption following the discovery of gold bars and hundreds of thousands of…