Carol J. Williams

People react to the news from Cuba, that Fidel Castro has died, by waving flags and banging on pots at Bird Rd and SW 87 St., in Southwest Miami, Saturday, November 26, 2016.

Fidel Castro’s revolutionary influence was felt far beyond an island in the Caribbean Sea

August 22, 2019 at 2:05 a.m.

Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the charismatic icon of leftist revolution who thrust his Caribbean nation onto the world stage by provoking Cold War confrontation and defying U.S. policy through 11...

Where each nation’s Arab Spring revolution went wrong

June 22, 2019 at 10:10 a.m.

The headline-grabbing revolutions that gripped the Middle East in early 2011 brought the promise of an “Arab Spring,” a new dawn for democracy in a region with a history of...

Migrants crawl under a razor-wire fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke, Hungary. As Europe struggles with its worst migrant crisis since World War II, Hungary has become, like Italy and Greece, a "frontline" state.

U.S. takes in tens of thousands of refugees, but very few from Syria

June 20, 2019 at 3:05 p.m.

As European leaders engage in a blame game over which nations have done too little to ease the plight of refugees from the world's deadliest conflicts, the U.S. response has...

Polish official ‘more than 99%’ sure Nazi gold train exists

June 25, 2019 at 6:22 a.m.

For decades the whispers persisted among the factory workers and lumberjacks of southwest Poland that a Nazi train laden with plundered gold, jewels and artworks had been hidden beneath the...

French President Francois Hollande visits the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle on Wednesday. He announced that the carrier would be deployed to the Middle East to back the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State militant group.

France makes arrests over speech supporting terror attacks

August 18, 2019 at 11:36 p.m.

French authorities have tightened security in response to last week's terrorist attacks, ordering a crackdown on speech that backs terrorism.French authorities issued an order to strictly enforce laws against voicing...

Sweden launches hunt for intruding vessel, Russian sub suspected

June 20, 2019 at 12:02 p.m.

Sweden's royal navy deployed hundreds of troops and vessels Monday in a search for "suspected foreign activity underwater" after reportedly intercepting a Russian-language distress signal coming from a submerged craft...

More nations willing to fight Islamic State than took on Iraq in 2003

June 21, 2019 at 2:06 p.m.

France is ready to wage airstrikes against Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria. Saudi Arabia will open its bases to train Syrian opposition fighters. Most Middle East and Persian Gulf...

Thriving black-market for ivory drives slaughter of African elephants

August 21, 2019 at 10:11 p.m.

More than 100,000 African elephants were killed for their tusks during a three-year period, reflecting persistent demand for illegal ivory that threatens the pachyderms' long-term survival, a conservation study reported...

A Ukrainian servicemember from the Kiev-1 Battalion holds a found portable anti-tank guided missile launcher on Sept. 2 in the southeastern Ukrainian town of Slavyansk.

Ukrainian rebels say they are ready for ceasefire

June 24, 2019 at 9:22 p.m.

Embattled Ukrainian separatists called for a truce Saturday after government troops surrounded their main stronghold of Donetsk, and a reported attempt by Russia to send in an armored aid convoy...

More than a week after a missile destroyed a Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 298 over eastern Ukraine, the crash site in territory controlled by pro-Russia separatists remains unsecured.

Armed Australian force sent to secure Flight 17 crash site in Ukraine

June 18, 2018 at 1:54 p.m.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's dispatch of 190 armed police to guard the Malaysia Airlines crash site in separatist-held eastern Ukraine has stirred controversy and concern for the safety of...

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