Catherine, Princess of Wales, said she is “making good progress” in her cancer treatment and plans to appear in public Saturday at her first official event since announcing her diagnosis. Her treatment will continue for a few more months, and she is “not out of the woods yet,” she said Friday in a statement posted […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded Friday that Ukraine surrender four southeastern regions that Russian troops partly occupy and renounce plans to join NATO as conditions for Russia to “immediately” stop hostilities and start negotiations to end the war. Putin’s demands would amount to capitulation by Ukraine and the loss of more than one-fifth of Ukraine’s

Hamas does not know how many of the roughly 120 hostages Israel says remain in Gaza are still alive, a spokesman for the militant group said in an interview that aired Thursday. The return of the hostages taken in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks is a central part of the latest cease-fire proposal that could

The husband of a U.S. diplomat in Burkina Faso was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of sexually abusing children for a year at the couple’s U.S. Embassy-assigned residence in Ouagadougou. Fode Sitafa Mara, 39, who also worked at the embassy there, has been charged with five counts of aggravated sexual abuse of

The five retired men chatting outside a public library in a suburb of Edmonton, Alberta’s provincial capital, all had roots in South Asia. Some were from India, others Pakistan. The group included Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims. Their work lives had varied. But the group, which meets weekly at the library, was united in its late-in-life