President Joe Biden frequently talks about what he sees as central in executing effective foreign policy: building personal relationships

President Joe Biden makes his entrance at a NATO summit in Brussels aiming to consult European allies on efforts to counter provocative actions by China and Russia

A Tokyo court is starting the trial of two Americans in Tokyo in connection with the brash escape of former Nissan star executive Carlos Ghosn from Japan to Lebanon in late 2019

The government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has arrested five opposition leaders, following the detentions of four presidential contenders earlier this month

Naftali Bennett, Israel’s new prime minister, embodies many of the contradictions that define the 73-year-old nation

Israel’s parliament has narrowly approved a new coalition government, ending the historic 12-year rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and sending the polarizing leader into the opposition

Naftali Bennett, Israel’s first Orthodox Jewish prime minister, has opened the first meeting of his government with a traditional blessing for new beginnings, saying that now’s the time to get to work to mending rifts in the nation

A moderate Islamist party has claimed victory Sunday in Algeria’s legislative election even though results were not expected for several more days

President Joe Biden and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have known each other for years, but their meeting Monday will be their first as heads of state

President Joe Biden has arrived in the Belgian capital for the upcoming NATO summit, wearing a mask because of the coronavirus as an honor guard and trumpeters greeted him

Lebanon has vaccinated a daily record of people against COVID-19, raising the total number of shots administered around the country against the virus to more than 1 million

Diplomats from outside the European Union have cautioned that negotiations with Iran to salvage a landmark nuclear deal still need more time

Medical officials say the death toll from an artillery strike on a hospital in northern Syria has risen to at least 15

The prosecutor of Jordan’s state security court has filed sedition and incitement charges against two confidants of King Abdullah II’s half-brother Hamzah

Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations have staked their claim to leading the world out of the coronavirus pandemic and other crises

Britain is accusing European Union leaders of holding the “offensive” view that Northern Ireland is not fully part of the United Kingdom

The Group of Seven wealthy democracies have wrapped up their first face-to-face summit in two years at a seaside resort in southwest England

Pope Francis is demanding that humanitarian aid reach hungry people in the war-torn Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, where Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers are blocking food and other assistance

Exit polls indicate that Swiss voters have narrowly rejected a referendum that would have hiked fees and taxes on fuels that generate carbon dioxide

Thousands in Madrid are protesting the Spanish government’s plan to issue pardons to a dozen imprisoned Catalan separatist leaders responsible for the biggest challenge to the country’s unity in recent history