The recent brief but violent clash between India and Pakistan came from nowhere and proves the extreme volatility of the ...

The government is a centrist parliamentary coalition. To undo its predecessor’s democratic backsliding, it needs the ...

Poles vote in a presidential election on Sunday that the pro-European government in Warsaw says can revive its stalled ...

Europe once feared a strong Germany, now it needs the continent’s biggest economy to rise to its defence ...

Pakistan and India both declared victory in a recent flare-up of violence as a US-mediated cease-fire appeared to largely hold on May 11, with the nuclear-armed neighbors stepping back from a ...

Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope Francis. The ...

Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope Francis.

White smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday, signaling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church. That means the winner secured at least 89 votes of the 133 cardinals ...

White smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday, signaling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, an American missionary from Chicago who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the ...

The Catholic Church has elected its first American pope in history: Cardinal Robert Prevost. Newsweek's live blog is closed.