Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, and Monaco also announced or confirmed their recognition of a Palestinian state, a day after the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Portugal did.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot says today is "a great day for peace" as his country prepares to formally recognise ...

The UK, Canada and Australia announced their formal recognition on Sunday, which Israel said amounted to a "huge reward to ...

How a term coined to describe a nineteenth-century politics of exclusion would become a diagnosis, a political cudgel, and a ...

The world championships in Tokyo produced two standout performances from pole vaulter Armand Duplantis and Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.

The United Nations Security Council did not adopt a draft resolution on Friday to permanently lift sanctions on Iran, but Tehran and key European powers still have eight days to try and agree to a ...

The proportion of those born in the former communist East Germany who have attained leadership positions in reunified Germany is rising only slowly 35 years after reunification, the commissioner for ...

Depopulated towns in Germany's ex-communist east have come up with a novel scheme to bring back life: offering people several ...

With the battle lines a frozen mess, what’s changed since in the 20 months since I was last here? In a word: energy.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone brought the house down on Thursday by coming within a whisker of breaking the four-decade-old women ...

Israeli forces have labeled Gaza City a "dangerous combat zone." A UN commission's probe has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in the Palestinian enclave, a finding Israel has rejected.

Ruth Weiss, a Jewish journalist, author and human rights activist, was a tireless opponent of apartheid who used her pen to ...