Mexico has some of the longest working hours in the industrialized world. Now, Congress has approved a plan to gradually cut the legal workweek from 48 to 40 hours by 2030. Supporters call it a ...

On Thursday night, Pakistan’s military fended off attacks by the Taliban along its border with Afghanistan in the latest outburst of tensions between the two neighbors. Also, Cuban border patrol fired ...

On Thursday night, Pakistan’s military fended off attacks by the Taliban along the border with Afghanistan. The country’s air force retaliated Friday morning, with targeted airstrikes in Kabul and ...

This week, Cuban border patrol fired on a Florida-registered speedboat that entered Cuban territorial waters, killing four people and wounding others. Havana has blamed the US for allowing ...

Feb. 27 is Pokémon Day. That’s the anniversary of the release date of the first two video games of the franchise, Pokémon Red and Pokémon Green. This year is the 30th anniversary of those first ...

Access to mental health care is out of reach for many Nigerians. That’s because the country has fewer than 300 psychiatrists serving a population of over 240 million. And what few there are, are ...

Songs of Stolen Children,” is a Ukrainian musical group that seeks to give voice to the roughly 20,000 children who Russia has abducted from occupied Ukrainian territories. The project is led by a ...

Izmir, Turkey, is running out of water. In the past few months, the city’s reservoir hit 1% full. But most Turks don’t seem to be getting the message. Water bans are done overnight and are barely ...

In southern Italy, in the shadow of Mt. Etna, volcanic ash is part of life, and for generations its been used as fertilizer for agriculture. Now, the rest of the world is catching on, and companies ...

More than 170 people have been released from Venezuela’s prisons under a new, highly publicized amnesty law. But that doesn’t cover everyone, including soldiers and exiled political leaders, in a sign ...

Members of MAHKU live in a remote area of the Amazon and use ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic brew, to create paintings that ...

As Iranians living in Turkey think about the unrest and uncertainty their loved ones face back home, they’ve been gathering in an increasing number of spaces carved out for them in Istanbul — places ...