Demonstrators gathered Thursday for a fourth consecutive day on the eastern Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios to protest government plans to build new migrant detention centers. The protest comes...
February 27, 2020
A former housekeeper at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official residence is suing the leader's wife Sara for pain and suffering allegedly caused during her employment there, the housekeeper's attorney...
February 27, 2020
Pope Francis is sick and he skipped a planned Mass with Rome clergy across town on Thursday, officials said. The Vatican said the 83-year-old pontiff had a “slight indisposition" and...
February 27, 2020
Japan is announcing the closure of schools nationwide to help control the spread of the new virus. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he asked all elementary, middle and high schools...
February 27, 2020
He led Germany's army in World War I and served for nearly a decade as the country's president, but thanks to his role in Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's rise to...
February 27, 2020
The only place in the world where fighters linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group are cooperating is in West Africa's sprawling Sahel region, giving the extremists greater depth...
February 27, 2020
Germany's highest court ruled Thursday that a Muslim law clerk can be prevented from wearing a headscarf during court proceedings. In its ruling, the Federal Constitutional Court said the judiciary's...
February 27, 2020
Global opera star Plácido Domingo has canceled his upcoming performances at one of Spain's main opera houses as officials and music venues in the tenor's home country reassess their ties...
February 27, 2020
India accused a U.S. government commission of politicizing communal violence in New Delhi that killed at least 30 people and injured more than 200 as President Donald Trump was visiting...
February 27, 2020
China is planning to dispatch a 100,000-strong army of ducks to help Pakistan combat a massive locust infestation, a local newspaper reported Thursday. The legion of lotus-eating waterfowl will be...
February 27, 2020
Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters on Thursday retook a key northwestern town in Syria that was recently captured by government forces, and cut the highway linking the capital, Damascus, with the...
February 27, 2020
Australian universities are offering Chinese students stranded in their homeland travel money and discounted tuition and the largest campus delayed the start of the academic year, trying to keep their...
February 27, 2020
Latin America saw its first confirmed case of the new coronavirus spreading worldwide when Brazil's government announced that a 61-year-old man who traveled to Italy this month had the virus....
February 27, 2020
Saudi Arabia on Thursday halted travel to the holiest sites in Islam over fears about a new viral epidemic just months ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage, a move coming...
February 27, 2020
The U.N. disarmament chief warned Wednesday that the specter of an unbridled nuclear arms race is threatening the world for the first time since the 1970s, the height of the...
February 27, 2020
Malaysia's king summoned Mahathir Mohamad to the palace Thursday, fueling talks he may have majority support to return as the next prime minister after his abrupt resignation and the collapse...
February 27, 2020
South Korea and China each reported hundreds more virus cases Thursday as the new illness persists in the worst-hit areas and spreads beyond borders. South Korea reported 334 more cases,...
February 27, 2020
The South Korean and U.S. militaries have postponed their annual joint drills out of concerns over a virus outbreak. Thursday's announcement came after South Korea reported 21 cases of a...
February 26, 2020
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart wants Democrats to stand with or disavow Democratic presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders after he praised aspects of Fidel Castro's Cuba in a recent interview. The Miami Republican...
February 26, 2020
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador suggested Wednesday without offering evidence that most of those who die in Mexico's cartel- and gang-fueled firefights are high on drugs or intoxicated, prompting criticism...
February 26, 2020
Switzerland's highest court agreed to release bank documents related to an alleged corruption scheme that would have allowed the embezzlement of more than $4.5 billion. … Click to Continue »
February 26, 2020
The Trump administration's campaign of “maximum pressure” on Cuba has hit the country so hard that foreign companies refuse to sell planes to the island's government and ships refuse to...
February 26, 2020
Certain types of facial hair can render face masks useless and might not be effective in stopping the spread of coronavirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
February 26, 2020
Romania's president has nominated the country's finance minister to be head of a new government. President Klaus Iohannis said Wednesday that he asked Finance Minister Florin Citu to form a...
February 26, 2020
Israel on Wednesday advised its citizens to reconsider all foreign travel amid the global spread of the new coronavirus that was first reported in China. The Health Ministry also ordered...
February 26, 2020
The death toll from a weekend cooking gas accident in a North Macedonian village climbed to five Wednesday after a severely injured woman died in hospital. All the deceased were...
February 26, 2020
Nexhmije Hoxha, the widow of Albania's late communist dictator Enver Hoxha, has died. She was 99. Her death Wednesday was confirmed by her eldest son Ilir. “She devoted all her...
February 26, 2020
More than 100 guests could be released in coming hours from a 4-star resort in Spain's Canary Islands that's been under lock-down over fears of a further spread of the...
February 26, 2020
A lawyer for Julian Assange argued Wednesday that the WikiLeaks founder should not be sent to the United States because a U.K.-U.S. treaty bans extradition for political offenses. Assange, 48,...
February 26, 2020
Britain's attorney general offered a guarantee Wednesday not to use oral comments from witnesses testifying before the Grenfell Tower Inquiry in subsequent prosecutions over the fire that killed 72 people....
February 26, 2020
The Spanish government has canceled the participation of tenor Plácido Domingo in Madrid's La Zarzuela light opera theater in May in light of the latest developments in the sexual misconduct...
February 26, 2020
A working group chaired by President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday set a date for a nationwide vote on amendments to the Russian Constitution. The working group's choice of April 22...
February 26, 2020
The world powers that remain party to the nuclear deal with Iran expressed "serious concerns" Wednesday about Tehran's violations of the pact, while acknowledging that time was running out to...
February 26, 2020
Brazil's government confirmed on Wednesday that a 61-year-old Brazilian man who traveled to Italy this month has Latin America's first confirmed case of the contagious new coronavirus. “We will now...
February 26, 2020
Thailand's normally docile students have been holding rallies around the country to express their discontent with the established political order. The rare mass activism was triggered by a court ruling...
February 26, 2020
Brazil's government confirmed on Wednesday that a 61-year-old Brazilian man who traveled to Italy this month has Latin America's first confirmed case of the contagious new coronavirus. “We will now...
February 26, 2020
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday said Filipino forces can fight insurgents and Muslim extremists without American military help, in a defense of his recent decision to terminate a U.S....
February 26, 2020
Just call him Harry. The British prince who is preparing to step back from royal duties would normally be referred to as sir or his royal highness. But as he...
February 26, 2020
A lawyer for Johnny Depp told a British judge on Wednesday that the star's ex-wife Amber Heard lied when she accused him of domestic abuse. Depp denies the abuse allegations,...
February 26, 2020
A veteran right-wing politician has been nominated to become Slovenia's new prime minister following the resignation last month of a liberal head of government. Slovenia's president Borut Pahor on Wednesday...
