Pope Francis on Friday accepted the resignation of a French cardinal who was convicted and then acquitted of covering up for a pedophile priest in a case that fueled a...
March 6, 2020
When Sergio Rodriguez Sr. — a 78-year-old former political prisoner in Cuba — heard presidential contender Bernie Sanders say that it is “simply unfair to say everything is bad” about...
March 6, 2020
Gunmen killed at least 27 people and wounded at least 55 others in Afghanistan's capital on Friday at a remembrance ceremony for a minority Shiite leader, officials said. Heath Ministry...
March 6, 2020
The decision by Haitian President Jovenel Moïse to appoint a new prime minister and cabinet to run the country's daily affairs — without a political agreement with the opposition —...
March 6, 2020
Opposition activists and a war monitor reported a complete absence of Russian and Syrian government warplanes in the skies of Idlib and a relative calm in the area Friday morning,...
March 6, 2020
Iran's battle against the coronavirus intensified on Friday with stricter travel bans to block the disease's spread, even as the death of a former senior official and the rapidly rising...
March 6, 2020
Italy's death toll from the coronavirus leapt to nearly 200 on Friday while countries across Europe saw a surge in cases, with Serbia and the Vatican the latest to report...
March 6, 2020
Clashes erupted on the Greek-Turkish border Friday morning, with Greek authorities using tear gas and a water cannon to repulse an attempt by migrants to push through the frontier into...
March 6, 2020
North Korea said Friday it has released about 220 foreigners from a quarantine imposed as part of its vigilant prevention efforts to avoid an outbreak of the coronavirus that has...
March 6, 2020
A surge in Arab voter turnout was key to depriving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his nationalist allies of a parliamentary majority in this week's Israeli election. Undercutting Netanyahu's ambitions...
March 6, 2020
Intermingled among 3 million civilians under siege in the Syrian government's assault on the last opposition stronghold are tens of thousands of al-Qaida-linked fighters and other militants who came from...
March 6, 2020
Musician and composer Brett Dean has been hospitalized in Australia with the new coronavirus. British agent Intermusica confirmed on Thursday that the violist and conductor was in isolation in an...
March 5, 2020
The U.S. State Department warned Americans on Thursday against traveling to Haiti, citing the rise in violent crime, including kidnappings. The travel warning for Haiti was raised to Level 4...
March 5, 2020
As papier-mâché hand grenades and plastic assault rifles barely caught the attention of security guards, a health official in Dubai wordlessly watched over an infrared camera filming all who passed...
March 5, 2020
What does more than $500 million get you? For Mike Bloomberg, it was 175 winning votes in this U.S. territory — a group of Pacific islands with lush vegetation and...
March 5, 2020
There is so much information out there about coronavirus — some of it expert, much of it confusing or false. Here are some answers to questions many have about the...
March 5, 2020
At least seven people were involved in the November theft of 18th-century jewels from a unique collection in Dresden, German authorities said Thursday as they released a sketch of one...
March 5, 2020
Thousands of migrants massed on Greece's borders with Turkey, and security forces struggling to keep them at bay. Five years on it feels like deja vu, yet the European Union...
March 5, 2020
If you got stuck last weekend in Miami's Calle Ocho behind hundreds of cars honking horns and waving flags, you might be forgiven if you thought Fidel Castro had died...
March 5, 2020
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is heading to Moscow for talks aimed at ending hostilities in northwestern Syria that threaten to pit Turkey against Russia in a direct military conflict....
March 5, 2020
Turkey has vowed to seek justice for a migrant it says was killed on the border with Greece after Greek authorities fired tear gas and stun grenades to push back...
March 5, 2020
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a personal letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in to express his condolences over a soaring viral outbreak, Seoul officials said Thursday. It...
March 5, 2020
An airstrike on a rebel-held village in northwestern Syria early Thursday killed at least 15 people, including children, and wounded several others, opposition activists said. The activists blamed Russian warplanes...
March 5, 2020
Legal documents spilled from the arms of attorney Charlene D'Cruz as she led a Honduran mother cradling a limp toddler across the Rio Grande bridge. The asylum-seeking mother needed to...
March 5, 2020
Highly contagious and manifesting in some with little or no symptoms, the coronavirus has the world struggling to keep up. But when it comes to containing the epidemic, one country...
March 5, 2020
At least nine people were killed and more than 50 injured in a large fire and explosion at a bakery in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, according to hospital officials....
March 5, 2020
After a string of gruesome killings of women, feminist activists here began wondering: What if we all just disappeared? Mexico is about to find out. Women across the country are...
March 5, 2020
Nearly nine in 10 people worldwide hold some form of gender bias, a new report from the United Nations Development Programmme has found. In a survey that included people from...
March 5, 2020
Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Japan has been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak affecting both countries, Japan's chief government spokesman said Thursday. The visit had been expected...
March 5, 2020
Pet cats and dogs cannot pass the new coronavirus on to humans, but they can test positive for low levels of the pathogen if they catch it from their owners....
March 5, 2020
Israeli warplanes fired missiles toward military positions in central Syria early Thursday, Syrian state media and an opposition war monitor reported. State news agency SANA said Israeli warplanes launched the...
March 5, 2020
The Israeli military on Thursday said its forces demolished the homes of two Palestinians accused of being behind a deadly blast in the West Bank last year. Israel says Walid...
March 5, 2020
The United Arab Emirates on Thursday warned its citizens not to travel anywhere abroad amid the ongoing worldwide coronavirus outbreak, a stark warning for a country home to two major...
March 5, 2020
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, the two-term United Nations secretary-general who brokered a historic cease-fire between Iran and Iraq in 1988 and who in later life came out of retirement to...
March 5, 2020
Judges are set to rule on an appeal by International Criminal Court prosecutors against a decision rejecting an investigation into atrocities committed by all sides in the Afghanistan conflict —...
March 5, 2020
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, the two-term United Nations secretary-general who brokered a historic cease-fire between Iran and Iraq in 1988 and who in later life came out of retirement to...
March 5, 2020
A helicopter carrying the Philippine national police chief, two other generals and five other people crashed Wednesday, injuring those on board, officials said. Gen. Archie Francisco Gamboa, his companions and...
March 5, 2020
As Haitian President Jovenel Moïse used his one-man rule Wednesday to install his fourth prime minister in three years, hundreds of miles away on Capitol Hill U.S. lawmakers were trying...
March 5, 2020
Standing amid debris where his house and repair shop once stood, Antônio Pereira Farias took stock of what little remained Wednesday. He saved his wife and son from a thunderous...
March 5, 2020
What does more than $500 million get you? For Mike Bloomberg, it was 175 winning votes in this U.S. territory — a group of Pacific islands 7,200 miles from where...
