USAID said late Monday that it will suspend aid to Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, where most of the country's people live, if the rebels don't remove impediments obstructing aid operations....
February 24, 2020
Cuban duo Gente de Zona caused controversy after members referred to Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel as "president" and called him "special." The duo also asked for a round of applause...
February 24, 2020
Bernie Sanders' remarks about Fidel Castro on 60 Minutes Sunday night continued to set off alarms among Florida Democrats on Monday, as worries spread about the presidential front-runner's views on...
February 24, 2020
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and Commissioner Joe Carollo don't agree on much these days, but they were in lockstep Monday in promoting an “anti-communist concert” set for April 11 at...
February 24, 2020
With chants of “Free beach!”and waving placards, banners and Mexican flags, hundreds of protesters staged a symbolic beach party on a stretch of sand in the Caribbean resort of Playa...
February 24, 2020
The far-right Alternative for Germany called Monday for rivals to scale back their criticism of the party, saying the blackballing it is being subjected to could harm democracy in the...
February 24, 2020
Heavy rains pummeled the Egyptian capital of Cairo and other parts of the country Monday, causing massive traffic jams and flooding on many key roads. The downpour also forced authorities...
February 24, 2020
The U.N. Security Council on Monday reiterated its support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This was the first Security Council press statement on the issue since President...
February 24, 2020
A court investigating crimes against ethnic Serbs during and after Kosovo's 1998-99 independence war with Serbia took a significant step Monday toward charging suspects for the first time when a...
February 24, 2020
As the Grande Rio Samba school rolled its Carnival float onto Rio de Janeiro's parade grounds, people aboard unfurled a massive fan-shaped banner reading “RESPECT MY AXÉ” to the roaring...
February 24, 2020
Rescuers in Mexico were partially able to free a humpback whale that became entangled in a fishing net illegally set inside a refuge for the critically endangered vaquita marina porpoise...
February 24, 2020
Former European Council president Donald Tusk said Monday he is backing the main opposition candidate in Poland's May presidential election. Tusk was Poland's prime minister from 2007-2014 and remains associated...
February 24, 2020
The Haitian Ministry of Defense said Monday that a soldier has died from wounds suffered during an exchange of gunfire with police officers protesting outside army headquarters. The ministry said...
February 24, 2020
Turkish prosecutors on Monday requested the arrest of the pilot of a plane that crashed at an Istanbul airport killing three passengers, on possible charges of "involuntary manslaughter and causing...
February 24, 2020
An Indiana man accused of dropping his granddaughter from an 11th floor window of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico last year declined his right to a jury trial...
February 24, 2020
Albania's president on Monday sued the justice minister and two top officials for violating the constitution, the latest step he has taken against the left-wing Socialist Party government he accuses...
February 24, 2020
A car drove into a crowd at Carnival procession in a German town on Monday, injuring several people, police said. A large number of police are at the scene in...
February 24, 2020
Three women and a 10-year-old boy remain in critical condition in North Macedonia, a day after a home cooking-gas explosion that killed another four members of their extended family, health...
February 24, 2020
Police in Germany say several people have been injured after a car drove into a crowd at a Carnival procession. Northern Hesse police said a large number of police are...
February 24, 2020
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union will elect a new leader at the end of April, party officials said Monday. Current party chief Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer had been Merkel's preferred...
February 24, 2020
The U.N. mission in Libya said Monday that the country's warring sides had agreed to turn a shaky cease-fire into a formal deal, stirring modest hopes after weeks of sporadic...
February 24, 2020
The U.S. government began outlining its extradition case against Julian Assange in a London court on Monday, arguing that the WikiLeaks founder is not a free-speech champion but an “ordinary”...
February 24, 2020
Protest groups on three eastern Greek islands have begun setting up blockades aimed at stopping the government from building new migrant detention centers. The groups on Lesbos, Chios, and Samos...
February 24, 2020
The U.N. mission in Libya said Monday that the country's warring sides had agreed to turn a shaky cease-fire into a lasting deal, stirring modest hopes after weeks of sporadic...
February 24, 2020
Gaza militants resumed their intense bombardment of southern Israel on Monday, with some rockets slipping through Israel's vaunted Iron Dome defense system and one landing in the yard of a...
February 24, 2020
Lesotho's prime minister appeared in court Monday but the murder case against him failed to proceed as the magistrate referred the matter to the Constitutional Court to decide whether a...
February 24, 2020
The museum of the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp is objecting to a scene in a new TV series that shows a murderous game of human chess being played, insisting...
February 24, 2020
In June 2017, then-Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen delivered a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives criticizing U.S.-based investment bank Goldman Sachs for buying bonds from Venezuelan leader Nicolás...
February 24, 2020
As President Donald Trump was being feted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the west Indian city of Ahmedabad on Monday, Hindu nationalist and communist groups held pro and...
February 24, 2020
Biting commentary on racism in Germany featured prominently Monday among Carnival floats in western cities, hastily put together in the aftermath of a deadly far-right attack last week near Frankfurt....
February 24, 2020
Police manned checkpoints around quarantined towns in Italy's north on Monday as authorities sought to contain the COVID-19 virus that has made Italy the focal point of the outbreak in...
February 24, 2020
China announced Monday it has postponed its most important political meeting of the year because of the outbreak of the new virus. The move indicates the importance that President Xi...
February 24, 2020
Supporters of Julian Assange gathered Monday outside a high-security London courthouse, where a judge is set to begin hearing a U.S. extradition case against the WikiLeaks founder. The courtroom showdown...
February 24, 2020
He could have been president of France. Instead, former Prime Minister Francois Fillon is going on trial to face fraud charges after he used public funds to richly pay his...
February 24, 2020
Iranian state TV says the death toll in the country from the new coronavirus has risen to 12, after four more people died. The TV quoted lawmaker Asadollah Abbasi as...
February 24, 2020
India poured on the pageantry with a joyful, colorful welcome for President Donald Trump on Monday that kicks off a whirlwind 36-hour visit meant to reaffirm U.S.-India ties while providing...
February 24, 2020
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was called a threat to the people "who put their lives at risk to assist the U.S." on the first day of his extradition trial in...
February 24, 2020
President Donald Trump addressed the largest crowd of his political career Monday, celebrating the relationship between the world's oldest and largest democracies during a speech to a stadium crowd of...
February 24, 2020
South Korean soccer authorities have indefinitely postponed the start of the 2020 domestic season. The K League made the announcement after an emergency meeting in Seoul on Monday as the...
February 24, 2020
Kicking off a whirlwind 36-hour visit to India that emphasizes pageantry over policy, President Donald Trump was to receive a warm welcome Monday on the subcontinent — including a mega-rally...
