The U.S. military intercepted and boarded an oil tanker overnight that was linked to Venezuela after tracking it from the Caribbean into the Indian Ocean.

Ukrainian authorities detained former energy minister Herman Halushchenko in the Operation Midas probe investigating alleged $100 million kickbacks.

Once a racer for Norway, Pinheiro Braathen switched to Brazil, his mother's home country. In winning the Olympic giant slalom on Saturday, he earned South America's first medal at a Winter Games.

A Rio Carnival samba school has honored Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with a glowing parade, but his rivals are calling it illegal early campaigning

Russian opposition figure and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, who died two years ago, was found to be killed by a lethal toxin found in poison dart frogs, five European countries said in a statement Saturday.

Palestinians in Gaza's Khan Younis bid farewell on Sunday (February 15) to loved ones killed in overnight Israeli strikes. At least nine Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the northern and southern areas of the enclave,

Two skiers were killed in an off-trail avalanche on Mont Blanc's Italian side, as dangerous conditions plague the Alps during record week of skiing deaths.

President Gustavo Petro said he will accept a proposal by Colombia’s largest remaining rebel group to allow an independent commission to investigate its alleged links to the drug trade. The