Suffocating under a mountain of debt to China, communist Laos is struggling to tame rampant inflation, with food prices rising so sharply that a growing number of households are resorting to foraging.

Netherlands outclassed Hungary with a 4-0 victory in their winner-takes-all Nations League encounter on Saturday while Germany hammered Bosnia and Hercegovina 7-0.

Famed Olympic gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi, who coached Nadia Comaneci to the sport's first "Perfect 10", has died at the age of 82, USA Gymnastics said on Saturday.

Ottawa is taking "very seriously" the detention of a former member of Canada's elite special forces in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday.

Israel's army said Hezbollah had fired around 80 projectiles at the country Saturday, the same day its forces launched a wave of strikes on the Iran-backed militant group's bastions in Lebanon.

Egypt's economy has been in crisis for years, but as the latest round of International Monetary Fund-backed reforms bites, much of the country's middle class has found itself struggling to afford ...

Lina al-Khalil has fled her south Beirut home to escape escalating Israeli attacks on Hezbollah, but she still returns daily ...

France captain Antoine Dupont praised his side's "pragmatism" after the 30-29 victory over New Zealand on Saturday in Paris.

Mali's civilian Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga on Saturday called on the country's military rulers to discuss an end to the so-called "transition" period, in a rare critique of the junta.

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Brazil's left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva issued a scathing broadside against "neoliberalism" on Saturday, ahead of hosting leaders at a G20 summit aimed at economic cooperation.

Israel's army said two people were injured when a synagogue was hit Saturday in the northern coastal city of Haifa following a "heavy rocket barrage" by Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group.