VENEZUELA-CONGRESS CARACAS, Venezuela — President Nicolas Maduro tells Venezuela's military to be prepared for a fight as the country remains tense after a landslide defeat for his...

Diplomats from the United States, Europe and the Mideast met Sunday with leaders of Libya's rival political factions to impress upon them the need to adopt a U.N.-brokered national unity plan aimed at rescuing the country from chaos and preventing Islamic State extremists from gaining more ground....

Governments have adopted a global agreement that for the first time asks all countries to reduce or rein in their greenhouse gas emissions. Loud applause erupted in the conference hall outside of...

A son of Libya's late leader Muammar Gaddafi was briefly kidnapped in Lebanon by militants demanding information about the fate of a Shiite cleric who went missing in Libya decades...

VENEZUELA-POLITICS CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's outgoing congress has promoted a judge who drew international criticism by handing down a long prison term to opposition leader Leopoldo...

A French official says a new, possibly final draft of a landmark global deal to fight climate change has been completed after late-night negotiations and will be presented to world negotiators outside...

Fears are mounting that Islamic State terrorists could destroy an ancient Roman site in Libya which they have seized in their march towards the capital Tripoli and move closer to the West, Italian and...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he telephoned Muammar Gaddafi and tried to persuade him to leave Libya as the Arab Spring erupted in 2011. Blair said Friday he was not trying to...

A little girl from Schenectady's Christmas wish is coming true. Sa'fyre Terry was the only survivor of a 2013 arson that took the lives of her father and three siblings. She also suffered severe...

CANADA-SYRIAN REFUGEES TORONTO — The first Canadian government plane carrying Syrian refugees arrives in Toronto where they will be greeted by Prime Minister Justin Turdeau, who is pushing...