Scores of musicians, hundreds of journalists and thousands of music fans have gathered in the Swedish city of Malmo, where the Eurovision Song Contest is building towards Saturday's exuberant, glitter-drenched final. But even Eurovision can’t escape the world’s divisions. Thousands of anti-Israel protesters are also expected in the city for …...Read More

Anzhelika Sharonova and her 86-year-old mother held out in their battered eastern Ukrainian town for as long as they could before finally fleeing this week with just a few bags between them. Russian forces are steadily advancing north and south of Toretsk as they press on multiple parts of the …...Read More

Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin, two men who led the effort to create the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, will receive the 2024 World Food Prize. The vault opened in 2008 and now holds 1.25 million seed samples from almost every country in the world. Fowler and Hawtin hope their selection …...Read More

New York City is facing a lawsuit from a gay male employee who argues that the city's policy of only providing in vitro fertilization coverage to women is discriminatory. The Thursday lawsuit was filed by former assistant district attorney Corey Briskin and his husband, who say they had to put …...Read More

Parliamentary elections in North Macedonia resulted in the "Your Macedonia" coalition winning 58 of the country’s 120 parliamentary seats, three fewer than an outright majority. The coalition will need to partner with another party to form a government. The winners made gains on discontent over issues of corruption, the country’s …...Read More

Jung Pak, the senior U.S. official for North Korea, has voiced concerns about China's repatriation of North Koreans in Tokyo. The talks followed a recent visit to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Pak urged China to uphold its obligations, preventing the return of people to a country …...Read More

A leading rights group said on Thursday that attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces and their allied militias, which killed thousands in the western region of Darfur last year, constituted a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the area’s non-Arab population. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which has been fighting Sudan's military …...Read More

A disciplinary court in Poland has lifted the immunity of Judge Tomasz Szmydt, allowing for an international arrest warrant. Poland's prosecutors launched an investigation into Szmydt's case following reports of his arrival in Belarus seeking protection. Szmydt previously engaged in a smear campaign against judges sponsored by Poland's Justice Ministry …...Read More

President Biden's threat to halt offensive weapons shipments to Israel is prompting a wave of backlash among the House GOP, as progressive Democrats take a victory lap to celebrate the move. Republican lawmakers who spoke with Fox News Digital accused Biden of caving to pressure brought on by widespread anti-Israel …...Read More

Republican senators on Capitol Hill accused President Biden on Thursday of favoring a "Hamas victory over Israel" and being a "propaganda tool" for the Palestinian terrorist group after he vowed to withhold weapons from Israel if it follows through with an invasion of Rafah. Biden, during an interview with CNN …...Read More