Sri Lanka's prime minister said Wednesday that the government has decided to withdraw from co-sponsorship of a 2015 U.N. Human Rights Council resolution calling for the investigation of allegations of...
February 19, 2020
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday criticized the European Union's decision to launch a new maritime effort focused on enforcing the U.N arms embargo around Libya, accusing European nations...
February 19, 2020
Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday that he believes his recent meeting with a U.S. senator had spooked the Trump administration because it was an opportunity to talk directly to “the...
February 19, 2020
International Criminal Court judges on Wednesday rejected an appeal by an alleged Islamic extremist from Mali who argued that the charges against him were not serious enough to merit standing...
February 19, 2020
Russia will continue to issue official, business, humanitarian and transit visas to Chinese nationals, the country's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday, clarifying the conditions of a sweeping entry ban for Chinese...
February 19, 2020
A respected Japanese virologist on Wednesday said if the Tokyo Olympics were tomorrow, the games probably couldn't be held because of the fast-spreading virus from Wuhan, China. “We need to...
February 19, 2020
At the foot of Mount Olympus, army aviation forces from Greece and the United States are taking part in a live-fire exercise with attack helicopters, marking deepening defense ties between...
February 19, 2020
Iranian authorities confirmed on Wednesday two cases of the new coronavirus, the first in the country, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported. The report did not elaborate on the nationality...
February 19, 2020
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday he planned to raise U.S. concerns about human rights during a visit to Saudi Arabia, in particular the case of a Saudi-American...
February 19, 2020
Spain´s maritime rescue service said Wednesday that it rescued 24 migrants near the Canary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa but was still looking for 53 people in two...
February 19, 2020
A Syrian commercial flight landed at Aleppo airport on Wednesday from Damascus, marking the resumption of internal flights between Syria's two largest cities for the first time since 2012. The...
February 19, 2020
An American woman charged with human trafficking for allegedly attempting to smuggle a 6-day-old baby out of the Philippines inside a sling bag was arrested on an additional count of...
February 19, 2020
The unsolved murder of former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, who was shot dead 34 years ago in downtown Stockholm, may be a step closer being solved. The case's chief...
February 19, 2020
China on Wednesday said it has revoked the press credentials of three reporters for the U.S. newspaper Wall Street Journal over an editorial headline deemed by the government to be...
February 19, 2020
America's top diplomat on Wednesday asserted that South Africa's plan to permit expropriation of private property without compensation would be “disastrous” for the country's economy and its people. Secretary of...
February 19, 2020
Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has claimed the “top levels” of the Malaysian government long suspected the vanishing of a plane almost six years ago was a mass murder-suicide...
February 19, 2020
Some 500 people on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which has been quarantined in a Japanese port for two weeks due to the coronavirus outbreak, began disembarking on Wednesday,...
February 19, 2020
This month, school officials across Tatarstan were ordered to trim by half the number of hours of optional lessons offered in the Tatar language – from four a week down...
February 19, 2020
A New Zealand lawmaker and three political donors face fraud charges over an alleged scheme to hide campaign donations. Lawmaker Jami-Lee Ross on Wednesday was named along with three other...
February 19, 2020
Police in Thailand have arrested a man suspected of killing his ex-wife in the country's latest incident of deadly gun violence in a shopping mall. The suspect was arrested early...
February 19, 2020
Two small planes collided Wednesday, killing four people and scattering debris across grassland in southeastern Australia. Police and other emergency services were at the two separate crash scenes in Mangalore,...
February 19, 2020
Angry over poor pay and miserable working conditions, members of Haiti's U.S.-backed and United Nations-trained police force are taking their frustrations out on the streets. They are illegally firing their...
February 19, 2020
New virus cases in China continued to fall Wednesday, with 1,749 new infections and 136 new deaths announced after China's leader said disease prevention and control was at a “a...
February 18, 2020
The United Nations issued a scathing report on Tuesday that accused Haitian police of not protecting an impoverished neighborhood from corrupt officers and gang leaders they say shot at people...
February 18, 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday announced measures intended to counter Islamic extremism in France by giving the government more authority over the schooling of children, the financing of mosques...
February 18, 2020
Mexico City officials said Tuesday they will tighten rules for children leaving government schools on their own after a 7-year-old girl was found murdered over the weekend. In Mexico City,...
February 18, 2020
Despite objections from sexual abuse activists, the Israeli Opera will host a week-long singing competition organized by Spanish opera star Placido Domingo in Tel Aviv later this year. Domingo, 80,...
February 18, 2020
Israel's military will set up a special branch in its general staff dedicated to threats from Iran, it said Tuesday. The military said it will appoint a major general to...
February 18, 2020
Authorities on the French island of Guadeloupe said Tuesday that they were looking for the remains of a small plane that apparently crashed at sea near the eastern Caribbean island...
February 18, 2020
Israel will provide hundreds of additional work permits for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli defense body said Tuesday, in a new step aimed at solidifying an informal cease-fire...
February 18, 2020
The U.N. special envoy for Yemen warned Tuesday the “increasingly dire” military situation in the Arab world's poorest country is putting U.N. efforts to end the five-year conflict at “great...
February 18, 2020
Special representative for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, announced that the Trump administration had decided to sanction Rosneft on February 18. The oil company is accused of helping Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro...
February 18, 2020
The Trump administration announced significant new sanctions on Tuesday targeting Rosneft, Russia's largest oil company, for helping Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro circumvent U.S. sanctions. The new U.S. sanctions will affect...
February 18, 2020
Vatican police conducted new raids as part of a corruption investigation into a botched London real estate venture, focusing on the Vatican prelate who signed the contracts for the deal...
February 18, 2020
The worst locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in 70 years has reached South Sudan, a country where roughly half the population already faces hunger after years...
February 18, 2020
Archaeologists excavating the Roman Forum have discovered an underground shrine dedicated to Romulus, the founder of the ancient city. The monument includes an underground chamber with a 1.4-meter (55-inch) high...
February 18, 2020
Gun violence struck in a Thai shopping mall for the third time in six weeks on Tuesday when a man fatally shot a woman working at a beauty clinic in...
February 18, 2020
Germany is sending a second shipment of medical aid supplies to China to help the Asian giant fight the coronavirus epidemic that has infected over 73,000 people. German Foreign Minister...
February 18, 2020
Queen Elizabeth II's nephew and his wife have amicably agreed to end their marriage, the couple said in a statement. The Earl of Snowden, David Armstrong-Jones, and his wife Serena,...
February 18, 2020
A hotel watchman has been convicted of killing a Florida tourist staying at an Airbnb lodging in Costa Rica and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. The court in...
