Guinea will be voting Sunday on a controversial constitutional referendum that could extend the president's rule for at least another decade and lead to deeper political violence and more deadly...
February 28, 2020
A Czech court on Friday convicted a former Prague Muslim leader of being part of a terror group and financing terrorism, sentencing him to 10 years in prison. Prosecutors said...
February 28, 2020
Prince Harry joined Jon Bon Jovi at Abbey Road Studios in London on Friday as the singer recorded a charity single to support the foundation that oversees the Invictus Games...
February 28, 2020
Several thousand Muslims marched from the main mosque in Bangladesh's capital on Friday to denounce India's government for allegedly inflaming tensions between Hindus and Muslims, leading to clashes that left...
February 28, 2020
A pet dog in Hong Kong tested “weak positive” for the coronavirus, officials said Friday, with more testing needed to determine if the dog has actually caught the virus. The...
February 28, 2020
Mexico's assistant health secretary announced Friday that the country now has two confirmed cases of the new coronavirus. Hugo Lopez-Gatell said one of the patients is in Mexico City and...
February 28, 2020
Hundreds of refugees and migrants in Turkey have begun heading for the country's land and sea borders with Greece, buoyed by Turkish officials' statements indicating they will not be hindered...
February 28, 2020
Mirjana Novokmet does not believe that a special law that is set for approval in the Serbian parliament will help uncover what happened to her first child back in 1978....
February 28, 2020
The Vatican is launching a task force of experts to help Catholic dioceses and religious orders develop guidelines to handle cases of sexual abuse by clergy and tend to survivors....
February 28, 2020
On the eve of a potentially historic deal with the U.S. and the Taliban to end 18 years of war in Afghanistan, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai welcomed the signing...
February 28, 2020
Former army general Umaro Cissoko Embalo was sworn in Thursday as president of Guinea-Bissau despite a pending Supreme Court decision on a request to annul the election results. Outgoing President...
February 28, 2020
Amusement parks, sports events, religious gatherings, even school. More and more things in a growing swath of the world are now affected by the new virus. And that's messing with...
February 28, 2020
A former Philippine foreign secretary warned Friday that the president's decision to end a key U.S. security pact will undermine the ability of American forces to help the country deal...
February 28, 2020
Authorities in Italy have decided to re-open schools and museums in some of the areas less hard-hit by the coronavirus outbreak in which the country has the most cases outside...
February 28, 2020
For part two (or is it three, now?) of the saga “Bernie Sanders Exalts the Silver Lining of Repression in Cuba,” cue in partisan Miami politics of exile. Everybody, to...
February 28, 2020
Thailand's prime minister and five of his fellow Cabinet members on Friday defeated non-confidence motions filed against them in Parliament. All six managed to gain votes of approval from more...
February 28, 2020
Thousands are expected to gather Friday in southwest England for a climate march to be joined by activist Greta Thunberg. Local police have expressed concern about the march through the...
February 28, 2020
Some guests have started to leave a locked-down hotel in Spain's Tenerife island after undergoing screening for a new virus that is infecting hundreds worldwide. Reporters at the scene saw...
February 28, 2020
A fire erupted in a residential building in the Iranian city of Qom before dawn on Friday, killing at least five people, including a 2-year-old, and injuring 38, Iran's state...
February 28, 2020
Hoping to boost morale in Japan by assuring people that the Tokyo Olympics will be held as scheduled, IOC President Thomas Bach held a conference call limited to three of...
February 28, 2020
Pope Francis canceled his official audiences Friday after apparently coming down with a cold. The Vatican said the 83-year-old pontiff celebrated morning Mass as usual and greeted participants at the...
February 28, 2020
The Japanese island of Hokkaido is declaring a state of emergency over the rapid spread of the new virus there. The governor says the emergency will continue until mid-March. He...
February 28, 2020
South Africa has imposed a $3,300 fine or 2-year prison term on a man convicted for racist comments in a video that went viral last year. Adam Catzavelos was charged...
February 28, 2020
Muslims in a northeastern neighborhood of India's capital returned for weekly prayers at fire-bombed mosques on Friday, two days after a 72-hour clash between Hindus and Muslims that left at...
February 28, 2020
She wakes every day long before dawn to chat with her three stranded daughters on the other side of the world in China's locked-down city of Wuhan, anxious to see...
February 28, 2020
Malawi has legalized the cultivation of cannabis as the country seeks an alternative to tobacco, its main earner of foreign exchange which is under pressure from anti-smoking campaigns. Parliament on...
February 28, 2020
Slovaks vote Saturday in parliamentary elections widely expected to unseat the country's long dominant but scandal-tainted center-left party that governed on an anti-immigration platform, in favor of a coalition headed...
February 28, 2020
Heavy winds and snowfall early Friday led to accidents in southern and southwestern Germany that killed a woman in a car and injured eight on a bus. The woman was...
February 28, 2020
A commercial ship has rescued 35 Europe-bound migrants off Libya's Mediterranean coast and returned them to the capital, Tripoli, the U.N. migration agency said. The International Organization for Migration tweeted...
February 28, 2020
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called out her Australian counterpart at an extraordinarily abrasive joint news conference Friday for his country's rigid policy of deporting foreign criminals to homelands...
February 28, 2020
Ambassadors from the NATO military alliance are holding emergency talks Friday at the request of Turkey following the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in northeast Syria, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg...
February 28, 2020
Turkey on Friday raised the death toll from a Syrian government airstrike on its forces in northwestern Syria the day before to 33 Turkish troops killed. It was the largest...
February 28, 2020
Many Afghans view Saturday's expected signing of a U.S.-Taliban peace deal with a heavy dose of well-earned skepticism. They've spent decades living in a country at war — some their...
February 28, 2020
New Zealand health officials on Friday said the country had its first case of the new coronavirus, a person in their 60s who recently returned from Iran. Health officials said...
February 28, 2020
Nigeria's health authorities have reported the country's first case of a new coronavirus in Lagos, the first confirmed case of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa. The Commissioner for Health for...
February 28, 2020
Pope Francis has cancelled events at the Vatican due to a slight illness, the Vatican said on February 27. The announcement came after the pope led large public ceremonies on...
February 28, 2020
A major cycling race in the United Arab Emirates was canceled early Friday after two Italians tested positive for the new coronavirus, setting off a quarantine that also ensnared four-time...
February 28, 2020
Hong Kong's Apple Daily newspaper says the outspoken head of its publishing group, Jimmy Lai, has been held by police Friday over his participation in a protest march in August...
February 28, 2020
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Thursday that inequality for women is growing and it “should shame us all in the 21st century because it is not only unacceptable, it is...
February 28, 2020
Malaysia's nine ethnic Malay rulers are due to hold a special meeting Friday to help resolve a political wrangle over the premiership after the ruling alliance collapsed this week. The...
