Rafael intensifies into a Category 2 hurricane as it barrels toward Cuba, forecasters say

Puerto Rico is holding elections that will be historic regardless of which of the top two gubernatorial candidates wins

Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes have killed at least 30 people in Gaza, including on a home where displaced families were sheltering

Palestinian officials say an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza has killed at least 20 people, mostly women and children

Qatar is voting in a snap poll to decide whether to end its limited voting for legislative seats

Ukraine’s defense minister says Ukrainian troops have engaged for the first time with North Korean units that were recently deployed to help Russia in the war with its neighbor

Police in Germany have arrested eight suspected members of a far-right militant organization

As millions of Americans gear up to cast ballots in U.S. elections, Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, has people rooting for her from thousands of miles away in a tiny south Indian village

South Korea’s privacy watchdog has fined Meta 21.6 billion won for illegally collecting Facebook users’ sensitive personal information, including data about their political views and sexual orientation, and sharing it with thousands of advertisers for ...

Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike has killed 20 people in northern Gaza

Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco has reported third-quarter profits of $27.5 billion, down about 15% from last year as low oil prices ate into its revenues

Iran’s foreign minister has arrived in Pakistan’s capital on a two-day official visit to discuss a range of issues, including tensions in the Middle East and further improving bilateral ties, officials said Tuesday

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed his popular defense minister, Yoav Gallant, in a surprise announcement that came as the country is embroiled in wars on multiple fronts across the region

Protesters have thrown flares and red paint at the City Hall building in the Serbian city of Novi Sad in rage over last week’s collapse of a concrete canopy at the railway station that killed 14 people

Spain says 89 people are confirmed to be missing 1 week after catastrophic floods hit the eastern Valencia region

Judicial officials say prosecutors and police investigators who specialize in fighting major fraud and corruption have raided Netflix offices in France and the Netherlands

Brazilian police official Valdecy Urquiza will be the next chief of the global police organization Interpol

Western security officials suspect Russia was behind a plot to put incendiary devices in packages on cargo planes bound for North America, including one that caught fire at a courier hub in Germany and another that ignited in a warehouse in England

The Mexican Navy says it has seized 3.6 tons of cocaine aboard a boat off the Pacific coast