Young athletes are being recruited to plug a staff shortage in Japan’s nursing homes. The results are reshaping elder care.

Hamas said it was not participating in the municipal elections in Deir al-Balah, set for this weekend. Residents said it was a long-awaited opportunity to address the city’s problems

Stopping the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militia in Lebanon, could be crucial to ending the war in Iran.

The party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been making gains in a state once beyond its grasp, but many decry an audit that removed nine million voters, many of them Muslim.

A small group in the House of Lords has proposed hundreds of amendments that are helping stymie a bill that was meant to legalize medically assisted death for the terminally ill.

European Union nations have a little-known obligation to protect one another. Experts caution it is no replacement for NATO.

On his recent trip abroad, Leo XIV made some of his most forthright comments since becoming pope last year, but grew uncomfortable at how that criticism was interpreted.

Once promised a move to the United States, Afghan refugees who helped U.S. forces say they face ‘bad or worse’ options: resettlement to Congo or returning home to live under the Taliban.

Oil was hovering above $100 a barrel and there were no public signs of a breakthrough in peace efforts. The White House said President Trump does not view Iran’s reported seizures as a cease-fire violation.

Unlike previous European assistance packages, the latest one is heavily weighted toward military spending, reflecting a view that the war is far from over.