The high schooler was lying in his hotel bed, playing a video game, when he heard the sound of rushing sand. Then the world seemed to cave in. The ceilings...
March 9, 2020
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte expanded emergency anti-coronavirus restrictions to the entire country Monday. Conte said that a new government decree, which goes into effect Tuesday, will require all people...
March 9, 2020
Two U.S. service members were killed in Iraq in an engagement with enemy forces Sunday, the Pentagon said Monday. The two soldiers, whose names have not been released pending next-of-kin...
March 9, 2020
A special North Korean flight carrying presumably dozens of diplomats and other foreigners left for Russia's Far East on Monday as the country tightens its lockdown intended to fend off...
March 8, 2020
North Korea has fired three unidentified projectiles off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said. Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement it has detected the...
March 8, 2020
At least 10 people were killed in the collapse of Chinese hotel that was being used to isolate people who had arrived from other parts of China hit hard by...
March 8, 2020
Saudi Arabia's King Salman was shown in state media Sunday in apparent good health and working, just days after the arrest of two senior princes triggered speculation about a possible...
March 8, 2020
It's definitely a farewell. But will it be fond? Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will fulfill their final royal commitment when they appear Monday at...
March 8, 2020
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Sunday denied saying “I don't know what's so wrong with” Cuba during a visit with a political prisoner on the island six years ago. Sanders,...
March 8, 2020
What Giscard Bogard remembers most about his recent kidnapping in Haiti is not the beating he took in the car with the butt of a gun or the blood splattered...
March 8, 2020
Calling himself “a proud feminist,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres lashed out at men who abuse power and declared before Sunday's observances of International Women's Day that the fight for gender...
March 8, 2020
When Robert Biedron showed up in this historic city's main square to lead a rally in his bid to be president, he was bracing for a fight in a region...
March 8, 2020
Egypt registered its first death from the coronavirus on Sunday, the same day that Iran announced 49 new virus fatalities and Middle Eastern countries imposed travel restrictions to slow the...
March 8, 2020
Turkey isn't ready to let go of its threat to unleash a migration crisis on the European Union. On the eve of a high-level meeting in Brussels, President Recep Tayyip...
March 8, 2020
The region of Lombardy and a number of provinces in northern Italy went into lockdown on Sunday in an effort to combat the coronavirus outbreak, measures the World Health Organization...
March 8, 2020
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says it's ramping up expertise across the continent to help fight the spread of the novel coronavirus. The CDC has trained laboratories...
March 8, 2020
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea fired three unidentified projectiles off its eastern coast Monday, South Korea's defense ministry said in a text message, in its second such launch in...
March 8, 2020
A 64-year-old patient died in Argentina as a result of the new coronavirus, the first such death in Latin America, health authorities announced Saturday. The Ministry of Health said the...
March 7, 2020
Two senior princes in Saudi Arabia are under arrest for not supporting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has consolidated control of all major levers of power with the support...
March 7, 2020
Over the years, villagers who live near Greece's border with Turkey got used to seeing small groups of people enter their country illegally. The Greek residents often offered the just-arrived...
March 7, 2020
A group of migrants on Saturday tried to bring down a fence in a desperate attempt to bust through the border into Greece while others hurled rocks at Greek police....
March 7, 2020
The ongoing crisis in Venezuela will top the agenda when President Donald Trump meets with Brazilian President Bolsonaro at Mar-a-Lago, senior administration officials said on Saturday. The two men are...
March 7, 2020
As cases of the coronavirus surge in Italy, Iran, South Korea, the U.S. and elsewhere, many scientists say it's plain that the world is in the grips of a pandemic...
March 7, 2020
Wearing gas masks and waterproof fatigues, members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard now spray down streets and hospitals with disinfectants as the Islamic Republic faces one of the world's worst outbreaks...
March 7, 2020
President Donald Trump hosted Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday, where the two leaders were expected to discuss the U.S.-led effort to...
March 7, 2020
International Women's Day on Sunday celebrates the social, political and economic gains of women, yet finding a way to effectively stem, if not end, gender-based killings remains a challenge in...
March 7, 2020
The number of migrants trying to cross from Turkey to Greece could soon swell significantly, a top Ankara official warned on Saturday, even as the European Union insisted that any...
March 7, 2020
Iran reported on Saturday more than 1,000 new cases of coronavirus infections within one day as the deaths climbed to 145 people in the Islamic Republic. Iran's total number of...
March 7, 2020
The Italian government is set to lock down the Milan region and several other northern areas to fight Europe's worst coronavirus outbreak, according to a draft decree seen by Bloomberg....
March 7, 2020
U.S. officials were deciding where to dock a cruise ship in California with 21 virus cases aboard and four American universities canceled in-person classes as sweeping efforts to contain the...
March 7, 2020
Murad Mahmoud's 14-year-old son has been detained by Israeli police in his east Jerusalem neighborhood three times in the last two years. His 10-year-old has been interrogated by police in...
March 7, 2020
The number of people in the Caribbean who have contracted the novel coronavirus continues to grow with the Pan American Health Organization confirming Friday an additional positive case in the...
March 6, 2020
Hurricane season is only three months away, and for those still recovering from Hurricane Dorian the pressure to remove debris, rebuild destroyed and damaged homes and businesses and restore power...
March 6, 2020
Food For The Poor is working with the Episcopal Church, the Baptist Church and the Catholic Church in the Bahamas as they each begin a large-scale rebuilding effort to help...
March 6, 2020
Mexico's bishops said Friday the Vatican had suspended a clerical sex abuse fact-finding and assistance mission to Mexico due to the spreading coronavirus in Italy and now the Vatican. The...
March 6, 2020
Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo, who is ensnared in allegations of sexual misconduct, has withdrawn from this summer's production of Don Carlo at London's Royal Opera House. The Royal Opera House...
March 6, 2020
The Great Barrier Reef is facing a critical period of heat stress over the coming weeks following the most widespread coral bleaching the natural wonder has ever endured, scientists said...
March 6, 2020
We used satellite images to track the impact of the coronavirus on the economy and daily life around the world. Here's what The New York Times found. … Click to...
March 6, 2020
India is bracing for a potential explosion of coronavirus cases as authorities rush to trace, test and quarantine contacts of 31 people confirmed to have the disease. It is screening...
March 6, 2020
No entry, says Hungary. Not all at once, says Greece. Watch out, says Croatia: They might have the coronavirus. This week, thousands of asylum-seekers sit at the intersection of a...
