The death toll in mainland China's new virus outbreak has risen to 636, including a doctor who got in trouble with authorities in the communist country for sounding an early...
February 6, 2020
The chief architect of the U.S. blueprint to resolve the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians on Thursday blamed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for soaring tensions and violence in the...
February 6, 2020
Art Basel has canceled its 2020 fair in Hong Kong “due to the outbreak and spread of the new coronavirus,” according to a release issued Thursday by the show's organizers....
February 6, 2020
Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez, one of the most notorious hit men for Colombian cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar, is dead. Nickamed “Popeye,” a sobriquet he earned during an apprenticeship with the...
February 6, 2020
About 200 hundred migrants, including children, gathered Thursday at Serbia's border with Hungary to demand to be allowed entry into the European Union country. Braving freezing evening weather and biting...
February 6, 2020
Iraq and Russia discussed prospects for deepening military coordination, Iraq's Defense Ministry said Thursday, amid a strain in Baghdad-Washington relations after a U.S. airstrike killed a top Iranian general inside...
February 6, 2020
A Homestead man's past caught up with him Thursday morning when he reported for work at a high-end — and high-security — resort in the Florida Keys. Edgar Omar Delgado...
February 6, 2020
Romanian Prime Minister Ludovic Orban has been asked to form a new government, a day after his centrist minority government lost a no-confidence vote in parliament. After holding consultations Thursday...
February 6, 2020
Deutsche Bank's battered stock soared 14.4% on Thursday after a new investor took a large stake — a move seen as a vote of confidence in the restructuring effort led...
February 6, 2020
The U.N.'s special representative for Libya said Thursday the country's warring sides are working to turn a provisional cease-fire into a formal agreement as they emerged from four days of...
February 6, 2020
An independent investigation into leaks that raised questions over the global chemical weapons watchdog's conclusion that chlorine was used in a notorious 2018 attack in Syria has criticized two former...
February 6, 2020
A Lithuanian tourist was killed and his partner was allegedly raped in an attack near a popular seaside town south of Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian police said Thursday. One suspect...
February 6, 2020
The U.N.'s special representative for Libya said Thursday the country's warring sides are working to turn a provisional cease-fire into a formal agreement as they emerged from four days of...
February 6, 2020
Ukraine's parliament is debating a proposed law to allow sales of the country's rich farmland, a high-tension issue that sparked a brawl among lawmakers Thursday. Proponents say that allowing sales...
February 6, 2020
The one-time spokesman for the notorious Syrian rebel faction the Army of Islam , who was arrested in southern France last week and charged with torture and war crimes, arrived...
February 6, 2020
A former hit man for late drug lord Pablo Escobar who confessed to killing hundreds of people during one of Colombia's most violent periods died Thursday after a short battle...
February 6, 2020
The British government says it is reviewing the policy of raising Union Jacks atop town halls on royal birthdays, after some officials balked at flying the flag for scandal-hit Prince...
February 6, 2020
The European Union's proposed new system for adding members is meant to reinstate the bloc's influence in the Western Balkans, the bloc's enlargement commissioner said Thursday. There are worries that...
February 6, 2020
Class was about to start when a father drove up to a gazebo that Nydsy Santiago had converted into a makeshift preschool and pulled her aside. Could she please, he...
February 6, 2020
Venezuela's National Assembly leader, Juan Guaidó, recognized as the interim president of that country by 59 nations, continues his tour of the United States with meetings with several officials, after...
February 6, 2020
Turkey sent more reinforcements into northwestern Syria on Thursday, setting up new positions in an attempt to stop a Syrian government offensive on the last rebel stronghold in the war-tirn...
February 6, 2020
Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic organizers again tried on Thursday to allay fears that the 2020 Games could be postponed or canceled by the fast-spreading virus from China. Tokyo Olympic CEO...
February 6, 2020
An elderly man has died in his snow-trapped car in Serbia, while blizzards and strong winds left villages and roads blocked during a spate of bad weather in central and...
February 6, 2020
Stefan Ansermet was deep in Ecuador's tangled southeastern jungles, a hard two-day hike from the nearest village, when he stumbled into a clearing. The change in vegetation was so subtle...
February 6, 2020
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 struck central Greece on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The Geodynamic Institute said the quake struck...
February 6, 2020
Lawyers for former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo urged International Criminal Court judges Thursday to lift conditions they imposed on him last year when he was released following his acquittal...
February 6, 2020
Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned as “inexcusable” the election of a new German state governor with the help of the far-right as well as her own party, and said Thursday that...
February 6, 2020
Swedish police say two four-wheel drive military vehicles weighing nearly seven tons have been stolen from an army storage facility northwest of Stockholm. Built by BAE Land Systems OMC in...
February 6, 2020
David Abel's 50th wedding anniversary luxury cruise began with him eating his fill and enjoying the sights of East Asia. It's ending with him quarantined in his cabin aboard the...
February 6, 2020
Search efforts have resumed in eastern Turkey, following two avalanches that killed dozens and left at least two people missing, Turkish news agencies reported. The private DHA news agency said...
February 6, 2020
Saudi Arabia on Thursday barred its citizens and residents of the kingdom from traveling to China amid the new virus outbreak. The kingdom's General Directorate of Passports said the measure...
February 6, 2020
Maldives police said Thursday they have arrested two persons in the stabbing of two Chinese and an Australian earlier this week in an attack that may have been carried out...
February 6, 2020
Saudi Arabia has used a secretive court established to try terrorism cases as "a weapon of repression" to imprison peaceful critics, activists, journalists, clerics and minority Muslim Shiites, including some...
February 6, 2020
Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes early on Thursday near Damascus, Syrian state media said, while an opposition war monitoring group said the strikes targeted army positions as well as Iran-backed...
February 6, 2020
Aspen! Zermatt! Kabul? While Afghanistan's capital may seem an unlikely destination for snowboarders, a group of young Afghans is looking to put the city on the winter sports map and...
February 6, 2020
The Latest on a virus outbreak that began in China (all times local): 2 p.m. A Hong Kong medical union has warned that its 20,000 members could resign en masse...
February 6, 2020
A new watchtower rose over an American military base in northern Iraq, and cranes lifted hefty slabs of concrete to reinforce the barricades in beefed-up protections. The danger, soldiers there...
February 6, 2020
Israeli paramedics say 14 soldiers were injured in a car-ramming attack in Jerusalem overnight. The attack happened early on Thursday. The police say the driver of the car targeted a...
February 6, 2020
Australia's prime minister on Thursday announced changes to his Cabinet after two ministers resigned this week following political turmoil. The new lineup of ministers was agreed by Prime Minister Scott...
February 6, 2020
Canada's ambassador to China said Wednesday there is a chill in relations between the two countries since Beijing imprisoned two Canadians, but his top priority is winning their release and...
