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Members of the International Seabed Authority have elected Leticia Carvalho of Brazil as the group’s new secretary general amid growing support for a preliminary halt to deep-sea mining

Twenty-four hours after polls closed in Venezuela's presidential election, the leader of the opposition announced that her coalition had gathered more than two-thirds of vote tally sheets from polling centers nationwide

The 24-person blockbuster prison swap carried out this week required the U.S. to regroup after the unexpected death in February of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who’d been seen as a key cog in a potential exchange

Ri Il Gyu, North Korea’s former No.2 diplomat in Cuba, who has resettled in South Korea, says he fled to South Korea with his family last November in frustration over his highly repressive, corrupt homeland

Ri Il Gyu, North Korea’s former No. 2 diplomat in Cuba, has resettled in South Korea

U.S. officials are warning that a newly confirmed famine in Sudan's Darfur region is on pace to become the world's worst in decades

Forecasters say Hurricane Carlotta has formed over the Pacific Ocean and continues to strengthen as it moves away from Mexico

A storm system brewing over Cuba on Friday could likely bring torrential rain and flooding to the Florida peninsula this weekend

A storm system brewing over Cuba on Friday could bring torrential rain and flooding to the Florida peninsula this weekend

Half a dozen masked assailants have ransacked the headquarters of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado in an escalation of violence against President Nicolás Maduro's opponents after the disputed presidential election