This 1,000-mile river suffered decades of oil spills. Now it’s a legal person, things could change

In the year 2000, over 5,000 barrels of crude oil

Pope Francis, voice for the poor who transformed the Catholic Church, dies at 88

Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce

Ukraine says Russia launched deadly aerial barrage as pressure grows on Kyiv to respond to US peace proposal

Ukraine says it was struck by a new barrage of

El Salvador’s president offers Maduro US-deported Venezuelans for prisoner swap

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has proposed a prisoner exchange with

Lion kills 14-year-old girl outside Kenya’s Nairobi National Park

A 14-year-old girl was killed by a lioness outside the

The Kremlin’s 30-hour truce was designed to shift blame to Ukraine. Did Trump buy it?

It was unexpected, barely implemented and not even extended. But

On Ecuador’s cocaine coast, with a fisherman who turned to smuggling

“One more trip,” he says. “And then I’ll stop.”

Hong Kong’s oldest pro-democracy party is shutting down as Beijing leaves no room for dissent

Hong Kong’s oldest and largest pro-democracy political party is moving

Netanyahu vows to continue war in Gaza despite growing opposition at home

The real strategy behind Russia’s sudden truce announcement

The timing, the brevity, the sudden, unilateral nature of it