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He was Saudi Arabia's oil minister for nearly 25 years, rising to fame for engineering the 1973 oil embargo and negotiating Saudi control of Aramco from U.S. fuel giants.

Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, faces several drug charges and is under investigation for allegedly helping her husband escape from a Mexican prison in 2015.

The wife of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán was arrested on charges related to alleged involvement in international drug trafficking at Dulles Airport in Virginia.

In an effort to boost vaccination rates among a skeptical public, Bulgaria has opened up COVID-19 inoculations to all who want them — with many waiting in line for hours to receive a first dose.

Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the storied former Saudi Arabian oil minister who oversaw the 1973 oil embargo and made the kingdom an energy powerhouse has died.

Domestic tourism has been strong in Iraq's northern Kurdish region, but sites in more impoverished, insecure areas tend to be visited less. A few Iraqi tourism companies are trying to change that.

The man's daring escape, and the failure of South Korean guards to detect him, is the second embarrassing breach of the heavily fortified DMZ in recent months.

Malaysian immigration officials defied a court ordered stay and loaded the migrants onto three navy ships sent by Myanmar's military government to return them.

Journalist Matthew Gavin Frank exposes the history of South Africa's nefarious diamond industry, accompanied by a tale of pigeons and their role in subversion, in crisp and poetic prose.

Journalist Joby Warrick takes a detailed look at an excruciating moment for the world — the time in 2013 when the U.S. concluded that Syria's government had used chemical weapons in its civil war.

Iraq's historic site of Babylon is famous worldwide, but some Iraqis are just getting to know it again — thanks to tours that introduce them to the past.

The Biden administration has to decide whether to alienate Germany, a close ally, by continuing the Trump administration's sanctions on companies building Germany's gas pipeline from Russia.