A Boeing Co. 737-800 aircraft operated by Jeju Air Co. crashed and caught fire after skidding down an airport runway in South Korea, killing most of the 181 people on board in one of the country’s wor...

China is pressing ahead with plans to construct a mega-dam near its contested border with India, a colossal undertaking that could generate three times as much power as the Three Gorges Dam.

Exposure to the virus in utero may have affected children’s development, according to a UCLA study, adding to a list of health problems emerging in the wake of the global pandemic.

The package includes air defense interceptors and artillery munitions.

In the month Joe Biden has left in office, his administration is focused on using all the resources it has left to deliver military aid for Ukraine and more sanctions aimed at weakening Vladimir Putin...

The Assad family has ruled in Syria for more than half a century — in recent years over just part of the country. A surprise push by rebels has toppled it more than a decade after an uprising first ch...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has left the capital Damascus on a plane, Reuters reported, as rebels entered the city and residents reported heavy gunfire.

The rekindling of fighting in Syria comes after a four-year lull in a civil war that first broke out in 2011. The uneasy stalemate among the country’s various hostile factions was broken when rebel fi...

South Korea’s brush with martial law is a reminder that democracy is not self-sustaining.

For the first time since South Korea achieved full democracy nearly 40 years ago, a president invoked martial law, igniting a political crisis with global political implications and initially causing ...

One of history’s most remarkable restorations came together almost on schedule, after €846 million in donations and unusual collaborations.

Airline travel remains far less lethal than driving.

Many countries will make up for lost US trade by trading more with each other.

Chinese President Xi Jinping took center stage in a family photo on Saturday at the APEC summit in Peru, while Joe Biden got a spot near the back corner.

Donald Trump’s US election victory — and Elon Musk’s role in helping to get him elected — has sent some users of Musk’s social networking service X searching for alternatives. Musk has spent months pu...

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Drilling for oil in the Arctic is expensive, time-consuming and dangerous, but it’s also inevitable.

A group of Chinese female economists and entrepreneurs who dined with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have been blasted by online nationalists for betraying their country by interacting with the US of...

A slow-moving storm system could pound the US northeast with more than 6 inches of rain starting Sunday, with areas including New York City on alert for flash flooding.