Mexico's federal Attorney General's Office on Tuesday asked Congress to remove legal immunity from the governor of the border state of Tamaulipas so he could face potential charges of organized...
February 24, 2021
Sixty-two inmates have died in riots at prisons in three cities in Ecuador as a result of fights between rival gangs and an escape attempt, authorities said Tuesday. Prisons Director...
February 24, 2021
LAGOS, Nigeria — Multiple explosions occurred in Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria in an attack by suspected Islamist terrorists, a witness and local media said. A large explosion occurred in the...
February 24, 2021
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Sixty-seven people were killed in three prison mutinies carried out by criminal organizations in Ecuador, the head of the National Service of Attention to People Deprived...
February 24, 2021
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam gave her clear support Tuesday to electoral reforms that would likely further exclude opposition voices and cement Beijing's control over the semi-autonomous Chinese city's...
February 24, 2021
The shooter shouted “Victory to Lord Ram,” the Hindu god, before pulling the trigger that sent a bullet into Muhammad Nasir Khan's left eye. Khan placed his trembling hand on...
February 24, 2021
For a few hours, Cuba's storied Revolutionary Square, where Fidel Castro once gave hours-long speeches to the masses, had a different name on Google Maps this week: Freedom Plaza. A...
February 23, 2021
During Cuba's so-called Special Period, the terrible economic crisis that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union, Willy Chirino's song “Ya viene llegando” became a hymn of hope for many...
February 23, 2021
One of Kentucky's top GOP lawmakers has filed legislation to ban some no-knock warrants nearly a year after the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was shot in...
February 23, 2021
Five Cubans made it from their native country to two miles southeast of Palm Beach Inlet before the U.S. Coast Guard ended their journey Saturday, the agency said. The Coast...
February 23, 2021
The doctor slid a miniature camera into the patient's right nostril, making her whole nose glow red with its bright miniature light. “Tickles a bit, eh?” he asked as he...
February 23, 2021
By taking meat off the menu at school canteens, the ecologist mayor of one of France's most famously gastronomic cities has kicked up a storm of protest and debate as...
February 23, 2021
Iran officially started restricting international inspections of its nuclear facilities Tuesday, a bid to pressure European countries and President Joe Biden's administration to lift crippling economic sanctions and restore the...
February 23, 2021
Facebook announced Tuesday that it would lift a ban on Australians viewing and sharing news on its platform after it struck a deal with the government on proposed legislation that...
February 23, 2021
A defrocked American priest went on trial Tuesday to face charges he sexually abused young girls at his shelter for orphans and children from impoverished families, in the first clergy...
February 23, 2021
About 96,810 pounds of Ming Yang Hotpot Seasonings were recalled because they have beef tallow and didn't undergo USDA import re-inspection after coming from China. Though beef tallow is beef...
February 23, 2021
Prince Philip is “comfortable” in a London hospital where he is being treated for an infection, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday. The palace said Philip, the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth...
February 23, 2021
A relative of Queen Elizabeth II was sentenced Tuesday to 10 months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral castle in Scotland. Simon Bowes-Lyon, the Earl of...
February 23, 2021
Protesters gathered in Myanmar's biggest city on Monday despite the ruling junta's threat to use lethal force against people who join a general strike against the military's takeover three weeks...
February 23, 2021
Two U.K. studies released Monday showed that COVID-19 vaccination programs are contributing to a sharp drop in hospitalizations, boosting hopes that the shots will work as well in the real...
February 23, 2021
Microsoft is teaming up with European publishers to push for a system to make big tech platforms pay for news, raising the stakes in the brewing battle led by Australia...
February 23, 2021
The imprisonment of a rap artist for his music and tweets praising terrorist violence and insulting the Spanish monarchy has set off a powder keg of pent-up rage this week...
February 23, 2021
Norway's National Museum says a small, barely visible sentence written with a pencil on Edvard Munch's 1893 masterpiece “The Scream” was penned by the Norwegian painter himself. The painting which...
February 23, 2021
A sell-off in technology companies led stocks on Wall Street mostly lower Monday, adding to the market's losses from last week. The S&P 500 fell 0.8%, extending its losses to...
February 23, 2021
Maria Piparinen and other elderly residents of Ikhala were relieved when they heard that doctors were finally bringing a few doses of the coronavirus vaccine to their remote, snowy village...
February 23, 2021
The Italian ambassador to Congo, an Italian Carabinieri police officer and their Congolese driver were killed Monday when gunmen attacked a U.N. convoy traveling to a school in eastern Congo,...
February 23, 2021
The United States voiced exasperation Monday with Haitian President Jovenel Moïse's one-man rule, blaming his government for the country's delayed legislative vote during a U.N. Security Council meeting as the...
February 21, 2021
About 30,081 pounds of pork pâté was recalled because it was made at what the USDA calls an “ineligible establishment” in France and distributed around the United States without USDA...
February 19, 2021
Djordje Balasevic, a Serbian singer who remained widely popular throughout the former Yugoslavia after the wars of the 1990s, has died after contracting the new coronavirus, state television reported Friday....
February 19, 2021
Riots broke out in many Spanish cities this week during freedom of speech protests over the jailing of a little-known rapper for insulting the Spanish monarchy and praising terrorism. But...
February 19, 2021
Buckingham Palace has confirmed that Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, will not be returning to royal duties, and Harry will give up his honorary military titles. When Harry and...
February 19, 2021
Jessika Reyes, a Spanish teacher at a public school in Puerto Rico, is proud of how her 11th-grade students have handled virtual learning during the pandemic. But the learning curve...
February 19, 2021
LIMA, Peru — In Peru, they're calling it ”vaccine-gate” — revelations that the then-president, his wife and other well-connected citizens were secretly inoculated against COVID-19 starting in October, before the...
February 19, 2021
One woman channeled her anger to ensure buildings are safer. Others have found peace after heartbreaking losses. Ten years after an earthquake killed 185 people and devastated Christchurch, New Zealand,...
February 19, 2021
Britain's Prince Philip has spent a third night in a London hospital after being admitted earlier this week for what Buckingham Palace described as “a precautionary measure.” The 99-year-old husband...
February 19, 2021
Italy delivered the first shocking confirmation of locally transmitted coronavirus infections outside of Asia a year ago Sunday, with back-to-back revelations of cases more than 150 kilometers (nearly 100 miles)...
February 19, 2021
Africa has surpassed 100,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 as the continent praised for its early response to the pandemic now struggles with a dangerous resurgence and medical oxygen often runs...
February 19, 2021
A young woman who was shot in the head by police during a protest last week against the military's takeover of power in Myanmar died Friday morning, her brother said....
February 19, 2021
In the busy emergency room of Baghdad's main public hospital, Ali Abbas stood face uncovered, waiting for his sickly father. Dozens of other patients and their relatives mingled without masks....
February 19, 2021
ROME — The government of new Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday cleared its last hurdle to taking power as it overwhelmingly won a confidence vote in the Chamber...
