At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a gallery room and honors 54 people who ...

At the 46th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union, held at the Unions headquarters in Addis Ababa, ...

Visitors read the names of the local victims of the holocaust inscribed on the Wall of Remembrance at the Pasti Street Orthodox Synagogue in Debrecen, northeastern Hungary, Monday, Jan. 27 ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, in which nearly half a million Hungarian Jews lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s Orthodox Church after the fall of the communist regime in 1990, has died, the church said on Saturday.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas militants handed over four captive female Israeli soldiers to the Red Cross in Gaza City on Saturday after parading them in front of a crowd. Israel was ...

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WASHINGTON — It’s time to take pride in the American flag again, President Trump’s State Department said on Tuesday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday banned flying any other flags ...

While the Ethiopian Orthodox Church says they were built by angels, others report that King Lalibela of the Zagwe dynasty commissioned them in the 12th century after a trip to Jerusalem ...

According to U.S. flag code, "all federal buildings, grounds and naval vessels" will fly at half-staff for 30 days after the death of a president Win McNamee/Getty; MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty ...