The European Parliament president warned EU member states Wednesday that they won't have the support of lawmakers if they fail to back anambitious long-term budget for the bloc. European leaders...
February 12, 2020
Lebanon's international backers said Wednesday they supported its new Cabinet, while urging it to swiftly tackle the country's snowballing crises amid ongoing anti-government protests. The group urged Prime Minister Hassan...
February 12, 2020
The FDA announced an international Class 1 recall of 322,005 Medtronic's MiniMed 600 Series Insulin Pumps that can cause the user to receive an incorrect amount of insulin. According to...
February 12, 2020
Estonia's foreign intelligence agency says the likelihood of a military attack from neighboring Russia remains low, but that any confrontation between Russia and the West could quickly turn into “a...
February 12, 2020
European Union lawmakers threw their weight Wednesday behind the negotiating package the 27-nation bloc's chief negotiator wants to use during upcoming trade talks with former EU member Britain. The European...
February 12, 2020
A Pakistani court on Wednesday handed down a five-year prison term to a radical cleric for terrorism financing. Hafiz Saaed is wanted by Washington and New Delhi for his alleged...
February 12, 2020
A truck driver wanted over the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants found in a refrigerated container near London won a delay Wednesday to his extradition from Ireland to the U.K....
February 12, 2020
A former Russian prison service official shot himself dead in a courtroom Wednesday after being handed a three-year sentence on corruption charges. Local court and investigative officials said Viktor Sviridov,...
February 12, 2020
Britain has suspended its funding of the body that runs the Commonwealth over allegations of cronyism at the 54-nation international group. Britain's Foreign Office said Wednesday it was putting the...
February 12, 2020
Syrian media said Wednesday that a Syrian civilian was killed and another was wounded when U.S. troops opened fire on locals who had tried to block a U.S. convoy from...
February 12, 2020
Human Rights Watch warned on Wednesday that Italy's renewed support for the Libyan coast guard is putting migrants in danger who are returned to squalid detention centers in the North...
February 12, 2020
India took more than 20 foreign diplomats on a visit to disputed Kashmir on Wednesday, the second such trip since Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist government stripped the region...
February 12, 2020
One patient jumped out of a hospital window to escape her quarantine and another managed to break out by disabling an electronic lock. Two Russian women who were kept in...
February 12, 2020
The Italian Senate is deciding Wednesday whether to allow former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to be prosecuted — as he demands to be — for alleging holding migrants hostage for...
February 12, 2020
A Japanese man with a sweet tooth who believes in smiles has become the world's oldest male at 112 years and 344 days old, according to Guinness World Records. Chitetsu...
February 12, 2020
Joseph Vilsmaier , a German filmmaker whose striking portrayal of the Battle of Stalingrad brought home the horrors of war to a new generation, has died. He was 81. His...
February 12, 2020
The U.S. military has switched from trying to degrade Islamic extremist groups in West Africa's sprawling Sahel region to merely trying to contain them as their deadly threat increases, a...
February 12, 2020
Angry inmates set fire to an overcrowded prison on Indonesia's Sumatra island during a riot that erupted Wednesday, officials said. Hundreds of police and soldiers were deployed to take control...
February 12, 2020
Pope Francis did not endorse a proposal to let married men serve as priests in the Amazon region, in what would have been a special exception to a long-standing celibacy...
February 12, 2020
A long stalemate over the future independence of Warsaw's landmark Jewish history museum is building toward a crucial turning point after the former director — who won a competition for...
February 12, 2020
Two Chinese nationals hospitalized with COVID-19 in Russia last month have fully recovered from the disease and were discharged from hospitals this week, officials said. A tourist from China hospitalized...
February 12, 2020
The Taliban have issued an ultimatum to Washington after weeks of talks with a U.S. peace envoy, demanding a reply on their offer of a seven-day reduction of violence in...
February 12, 2020
The current leaders of Somalia and the breakaway territory of Somaliland have met for the first time in the latest diplomatic effort by Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister. Somali...
February 12, 2020
The Australian government has scrapped a 12-year-old timetable for ending indigenous disadvantage, declaring on Wednesday that the policy had failed. A new center-left Labor Party government launched the ambitious Closing...
February 12, 2020
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó is gearing up for the next stage of his campaign to oust President Nicolás Maduro following his return home from a tour abroad that included...
February 11, 2020
The Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo continues to be a dangerous place for asylum seekers waiting to cross into the United States after being sent back to await the...
February 11, 2020
The Brazilian federal prosecutor's office filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to suspend the appointment of a former missionary as head of the government body responsible for protecting uncontacted and recently...
February 11, 2020
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó appeared to have breezed through security at an airport near Caracas on Tuesday, returning home without incident from a risky international tour that included a...
February 11, 2020
An unusual confrontation between Cuban police and a mob of angry residents in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba over the weekend was captured on video that went viral....
February 11, 2020
A video shared on social media shows Cuban police's intervention to stop a lynch mob that was after an alleged rapist in Santiago de Cuba. … Click to Continue »
February 11, 2020
After completing a risky three-week trip that had him rubbing elbows with world leaders, Juan Guaidó is expected to return to Venezuela in coming hours where he faces an uphill...
February 11, 2020
David Hockney's exuberant painting “The Splash” sold at auction Tuesday for almost $30 million. The painting fetched 23.1 million pounds ($30 million) at Sotheby's in London. Its pre-sale estimate had...
February 11, 2020
Adrielly Eger, an 18-year-old Brazilian model, has left behind her budding career in Wuhan, China, and is now spending her time in quarantine playing board games and talking to family...
February 11, 2020
Juan Guaidó, interim president of Venezuela, announced on Feb. 11, 2020 that he'll return to his country after a "successful international tour." … Click to Continue »
February 11, 2020
An influential Shiite preacher who heads a powerful political bloc in Iraq's Parliament threatened Tuesday to withdraw support for the candidate chosen by rival blocs as prime minister designate, indicating...
February 11, 2020
The head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that experts are "very encouraged” after only three new cases of Ebola have been reported in the past week in eastern...
February 11, 2020
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vehemently rejected the Trump administration's Mideast peace plan in a speech to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, calling it an attempt to keep the Palestinians...
February 11, 2020
The disease caused by a new virus that emerged late last year in China and has since sickened tens of thousands of people now has an official name: COVID-19. At...
February 11, 2020
Turkey's defense minister said Tuesday as many as four observation posts and two military positions are now in Syrian government-controlled territory as Syrian forces continue their advance into the last...
February 11, 2020
Lawmakers in North Macedonia unanimously ratified an agreement Tuesday to make the landlocked country in southern Europe the 30th member of the NATO military alliance. All 114 lawmakers present in...
