The Black Sea isn’t meant to be this black. A popular seaside town in Russia has seen oil wash onto its beaches, dark drops of rain and oil soot land on homes, and plumes of thick acrid smoke billow above its red rooftops.

Brazil's Congress approved legislation that could significantly reduce prison sentences for former President Jair Bolsonaro over a 2023 coup attempt.

Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been urgently transferred from prison to a hospital in northwestern Iran after a “catastrophic deterioration” of her health, her foundation said Friday.

President Donald Trump praised King Charles III after the monarch’s state visit this week, which is being hailed in the U.K. as a diplomatic triumph

Video released by Israeli police shows a French nun being shoved and kicked in Jerusalem. Authorities say a 36-year-old man has been arrested in connection with what they described as a “racially motivated assault.

One group is heading to an assignment under U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, and the other will join a Horn of Africa task force.

Iran is using the ceasefire to dig out weapons. Trump signs a bill to end the DHS shutdown. And previewing the Kentucky Derby.

The U.S. indictment of the governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa confirms what many residents say they had long suspected: The line between organized crime and the upper echelons of government has blurred.