The wife of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was set to be back in court Thursday, where her lawyers will urge a judge to free her from jail and put her under house arrest because she has heart problems.

Known widely as “Maricarmen,” María del Carmen Abascal had become a symbol for renters struggling with Spain’s housing affordability crisis.

A former Syrian general wanted for crimes against humanity is living quietly in Lebanon, bankrolled and protected by American and Lebanese authorities, a BBC/NPR investigation has found.

A war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences.

The Nobel Prize in literature will be awarded by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm. The announcement will be held Thursday.

Russian strikes on central and eastern Ukraine killed at least 20 people overnight and injured 50 more with attacks on civilian infrastructure.

French student protests over school conditions spiral into violent unrest, as experts warn a red-green alliance is fueling a broader revolt,

China managed to get a hold of parts from an F-35 stealth fighter jet after a United Parcel Service Inc. employee missed an email warning not to route the shipment through Hong Kong, according to a person briefed on the incident.