France's leader called the battle against climate change and environmental destruction “the fight of the century” Thursday after visiting a melting glacier in the French Alps. But President Emmanuel Macron's...
February 13, 2020
Police in North Macedonia have found 53 migrants crammed into a truck in a southeastern border region and arrested the driver on suspicion of belonging to a trafficking gang, officials...
February 13, 2020
An American woman wanted in the 2002 death of her husband, whose remains were so badly burned they weren't identified for more than a decade, has been arrested in Rome,...
February 13, 2020
A Brazilian journalist was gunned down in his home on Paraguay's border as he ate dinner with his wife, father-in-law and young child, prosecutors said Thursday. Léo Veras lived in...
February 13, 2020
The Iraqi government has given NATO the green light to stay in the country, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday, weeks after Iraq demanded that foreign forces leave over the U.S....
February 13, 2020
Mayors and residents of Greek islands hardest hit by the country's refugee crisis have protested in central Athens against government plans to build a network of detention camps. The officials...
February 13, 2020
Japan's health ministry says a woman infected with the new virus has died, becoming the country's first confirmed fatality. Health minister Katsunobu Kato announced Thursday that the victim is a...
February 13, 2020
UK Treasury chief Sajid Javid resigned Monday, in a shock development on the day that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is shaking up his Conservative government. Javid had been widely expected...
February 13, 2020
The shopping mall that was the site of Thailand's worst-ever mass shooting reopened Thursday, four days after security forces killed a gunman who was holed up inside, ending the bloody...
February 13, 2020
A powerful earthquake hit off Japan's northern coast on Thursday, but there were no reports of serious damage or injuries and no danger of a tsunami, officials said. Japan's meteorological...
February 13, 2020
Haiti police are acknowledging that there is a “spectacular” rise in kidnappings in the country. The new crime wave, which is being amplified by unconfirmed reports on social media of...
February 13, 2020
Ethiopian lawmakers on Thursday approved a controversial law aimed at curbing hate speech and disinformation, especially online, just months ahead of a major election. The law's approval, with 23 lawmakers...
February 13, 2020
Sudan's transitional government said Thursday it has reached a settlement with families of the victims of the 2000 attack on USS Cole in Yemen, in a bid to have the...
February 13, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson shook up his government on Thursday, firing and appointing ministers to key Cabinet posts. Johnson was aiming to tighten his grip on government after winning...
February 13, 2020
Germany's president is leading commemorations Thursday marking the 75th anniversary of Dresden's bombing by allied forces at the end of the World War II, an event that has become a...
February 13, 2020
Tokyo Olympic organizers reiterated their message on Thursday at the start of two days of meetings with the International Olympic Committee: The 2020mer Games will not be waylaid by the...
February 13, 2020
The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals including mercury,...
February 13, 2020
The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals, according to...
February 13, 2020
Health authorities in China's Hubei province reported 14,840 new cases of coronavirus Thursday morning, bringing the nationwide total to nearly 60,000. The daily count for Hubei – the epicenter of...
February 13, 2020
A minibus crash in central Russia killed eight people in the early hours on Thursday, local police said. A minibus with nine people on board was attempting to overtake another...
February 13, 2020
China on Thursday replaced the head of its Cabinet office responsible for Hong Kong following months of anti-government protests in the territory and rising tensions over the outbreak of the...
February 13, 2020
China on Thursday appointed the former Shanghai mayor as its top official party chief in central Hubei, the province hardest-hit by a viral outbreak that has infected more than 45,000...
February 13, 2020
The Latest on a new virus that originated in China (all times local): 12 p.m. A Singapore official says the number of infections in the city-state is likely to rise...
February 13, 2020
Japan's health ministry said Thursday 44 more people on a cruise ship quarantined near Tokyo have tested positive for the virus that causes the new disease known as COVID-19. The...
February 13, 2020
Some 250 million children live in countries affected by conflict, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday. And he said 2018 saw more than 12,000 children killed...
February 13, 2020
An ally of President Nicolás Maduro said Wednesday that officials have detained a close relative of opposition leader Juan Guaidó, accusing the uncle of trying to smuggle “dangerous materials” into...
February 13, 2020
A cruise ship turned away by four Asian governments due to virus fears anchored Thursday off Cambodia for health checks on its 2,200 passengers and crew. The Westerdam is anchored...
February 12, 2020
Guatemalan lawmakers approved changes to laws on non-governmental organizations that would give the executive branch the authority to allow such groups to operate or shut them down if they are...
February 12, 2020
The U.N. Security Council endorsed a 55-point road map for ending the war in Libya on Wednesday and condemned the recent increase in violence in the oil-rich North African country....
February 12, 2020
Secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie G. Bunch III and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, a professor of Jewish studies who played a leading role in the launch of a museum dedicated to the...
February 12, 2020
The World Health Organization said although signs are now “extremely positive” in Congo that the Ebola outbreak is winding down, the epidemic remains a global health emergency. To date, Ebola...
February 12, 2020
NATO is ready to expand its military training effort in Iraq, the alliance's top civilian official said Wednesday, but the Iraqi government is not yet ready to approve the move....
February 12, 2020
The United Nations said Wednesday its regular flights have not been granted permission to land in Libya by the self-styled Libyan Arab Armed Forces led by Gen. Khalifa Hifter. U.N....
February 12, 2020
Sudan's leader said Wednesday the government will “fully” cooperate with the International Criminal Court's efforts to prosecute those wanted for war crimes and genocide in connection with the Darfur conflict,...
February 12, 2020
Police raided a noted French publishing house Wednesday in their investigation of an 83-year-old writer who celebrated pedophilia in his work as court proceedings opened in another case against him....
February 12, 2020
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised Senegal's criminalization of homosexuality during his visit to the West African nation on Wednesday, but Senegal's leader told journalists afterward that “we're comfortable with...
February 12, 2020
Prosecutors in Poland say they have indicted 10 people with embezzling over 3 million zlotys ($780,000) in money and goods from a regional chapter of the Polish Red Cross. Polish...
February 12, 2020
Police in Northern Ireland have charged a 52-year-old man with murdering Lyra McKee, a journalist shot dead during a riot involving Irish Republican Army dissidents last year. The Police Service...
February 12, 2020
A Florida jury on Wednesday found a Chinese woman not guilty of trespassing at President Donald Trump's part time residence in Palm Beach. However, jurors did find Jing Lu, 56,...
February 12, 2020
Several dozen activists blocked a highway in Armenia for several hours Wednesday while demanding that authorities release two men accused of killing three police officers during an armed takeover of...
