The Canadian and U.S. governments have agreed to update an asylum seekers pact that would allow for the closure of an unofficial U.S.-Canada border crossing at Roxham Road, between New York state and the province of Quebec, according to media reports.

Jailed Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu’s family lost a legal challenge against the British government in a London court on Thursday over his continuing detention in Nigeria.

After Iran, Saudi Arabia to re-establish ties with Syria, sources say

Police fired tear gas and fought with violent black-clad anarchists in Paris on Thursday as hundreds of thousands of mainly peaceful protesters marched across France against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the pension age.

Ukraine’s top military brass on Thursday withdrew a report that wrongly said Russian troops had left the town of Nova Kahkovka in southern Kherson region, and blamed an error for the mistake.

TikTok creators and three U.S. Democratic Party lawmakers said they opposed any potential ban on the Chinese-owned short video-sharing app that is used by more than 150 million Americans.

Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law targeting the trans community, prohibiting transgender people from using the restroom that matches their gender identity at public schools.

Tens of thousands of storm-weary Californians were without power and under evacuation warnings as the latest storm packing wind-blown rain and snow threatened to bring more flooding to the rain-soaked state.

Afghanistan’s school year started on Tuesday.

The Solomon Islands has awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to a Chinese state company to upgrade an international port in Honiara in a project funded by the Asian Development Bank, an official of the island nation said on Wednesday.

Uganda’s parliament passed a law on Tuesday.

The United Nations used its first conference on water security in almost half a century on Wednesday.