A U.N. resolution that would endorse a plan to restore peace to Libya and condemn the recent increase in violence faced opposition Wednesday from Russia and South Africa. The two...
February 6, 2020
China has reported new deaths by a viral outbreak have risen by 73 in the past 24 hours to 563. That brings the number of confirmed cases to 28,018, an...
February 6, 2020
El Salvador is not ready to receive asylum seekers from the United States and will not accept them until it can offer them the necessary protections and support, Foreign Minister...
February 6, 2020
Brazil's far-right government drew protests from indigenous groups Wednesday, first by naming a former evangelical missionary to head a department responsible for protecting uncontacted and recently contacted tribes and then...
February 5, 2020
Relatives gathered in a driving rain Wednesday to mourn and bury three children, a 17-year-old and five adults shot to death in an attack on a video-game arcade in western...
February 5, 2020
Palestinian supporters have circulated a draft U.N. resolution that would reject the recently launched U.S. plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying it violates international law and Security Council demands...
February 5, 2020
At least six anti-government protesters were shot dead and 52 were wounded in clashes with followers of a radical Shiite cleric in southern Iraq on Wednesday, Iraqi medical officials and...
February 5, 2020
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has floated a strikingly unpopular proposal to end the practice of creating long weekends by moving national holidays around. López Obrador is a student...
February 5, 2020
The Vatican sought Wednesday to explain the absence of a key member of Pope Francis' protocol team following his role in a controversial book on priestly celibacy co-written by Emeritus...
February 5, 2020
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February 5, 2020
Two armed men stole 10 guns from a police station in a Mexico City suburb after tying up the officer on duty early Wednesday. The city government of Tlalnepantla said...
February 5, 2020
Another founder of a Catholic religious movement has been defrocked for sexual misconduct and abusing his power, the latest in a string of purportedly orthodox, charismatic priests who turned out...
February 5, 2020
The dream of an equitable, non-racial South Africa was the driving force of the struggle against apartheid and remains a goal today, those who returned to the grave of an...
February 5, 2020
Two separate busts in the Caribbean late last month seized a total of $46.2 million in cocaine, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Nine people were arrested in the operations,...
February 5, 2020
Brazil said Wednesday that it has picked a former evangelical missionary to head a body assigned to protect indigenous tribes, raising concerns among human rights activists about the tribes' health...
February 5, 2020
A dispute over water payments to the United States widened in Mexico Wednesday, after President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador said Mexico has to pay its debts but angry farmers pushed...
February 5, 2020
An aspiring artist from Canada says he thought standing up on a Jamaica-bound airliner to say he might have coronavirus would be “good for publicity,” Toronto CityNews reports. Instead, the...
February 5, 2020
Crew members of the Coast Guard Cutter Bear offload 3,086 pounds of cocaine on Feb. 4, 2020, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The drugs were seized in the Caribbean Sea...
February 5, 2020
President Donald Trump will host Juan Guaidó, the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly whom the U.S. recognizes as the legitimate leader of the nation, at the White House for...
February 5, 2020
At least two people died Wednesday in central and eastern Europe as strong winds, heavy rain and snow battered the region. In Slovakia, a bus stop was overturned by the...
February 5, 2020
A senior Russian diplomat raised concern Wednesday about the United States deploying a new submarine-launched nuclear weapon, saying the move signaled Washington's belief that it could wage a limited nuclear...
February 5, 2020
The Iraqi government has told its military not to seek assistance from the U.S.-led coalition forces in operations against the Islamic State group, two senior Iraqi military officials said. The...
February 5, 2020
Cyprus is preparing new legislation to curb the large number of sham marriages that are being conducted to help individuals obtain residency permits and potentially easier access to the European...
February 5, 2020
The Vatican sought Wednesday to explain the absence of a key member of Pope Francis' protocol team following the scandal over a book on priestly celibacy co-written by Emeritus Pope...
February 5, 2020
Romania's centrist government led by centrist Prime Minister Ludovic Orban lost a no-confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday, a development that raises the prospect of early elections. Lawmakers voted 261...
February 5, 2020
Italy and Turkey said Wednesday they were taking the temperatures of all arriving airline passengers in new prevention measures aimed at halting the spread of a virus outbreak that has...
February 5, 2020
An Indonesian court sentenced an Islamic State group sympathizer to life imprisonment on Wednesday after finding him guilty of plotting bomb attacks against police and Christians. Asmar Husin, who also...
February 5, 2020
Poland's next presidential election has been set for May 10, and if no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, a runoff will be held two weeks later, parliament...
February 5, 2020
A pro-business politician was elected governor of the eastern German state of Thuringia in a surprise result after a far-right party threw its votes behind him Wednesday. Thomas Kemmerich of...
February 5, 2020
Sudan's prime minister appeared rattled Wednesday by the meeting this week between the head of his country's transitional council, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, insisting that...
February 5, 2020
Iran's top leader said Wednesday that Donald Trump's Mideast plan will not outlive the president, state media reported. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in his first remarks since the plan was unveiled...
February 5, 2020
A disaster report says the 6.3-magnitude earthquake that hit Albania in November caused $1.1 billion in damages as well as killing 51 people and leaving 17,000 others homeless. The assessment...
February 5, 2020
An Indonesian woman who doctors say should receive psychiatric treatment was acquitted Wednesday of blasphemy charges for taking a dog into a mosque. Suzethe Margareth was released after a panel...
February 5, 2020
An Afghan media watchdog urged the government on Wednesday to heed a demand for more media freedoms after 30 local media outlets said in a joint statement that authorities were...
February 5, 2020
Turkey's president threatened Wednesday to use force against Syrian government forces if they don't pull back to an earlier cease-fire line in northern Syria by the end of the month....
February 5, 2020
London's Metropolitan Police are investigating after former Prime Minister David Cameron's bodyguard reportedly left his gun in an airplane bathroom. The Daily Mail newspaper reported that the weapon found on...
February 5, 2020
The Supreme Court in Namibia upheld the results of last year's presidential election on Wednesday, saying the challengers failed to prove ruling party manipulation of electronic voting machines. The ruling...
February 5, 2020
A former senior Australian intelligence official appeared in court on Wednesday charged with illegally taking secret documents from his Canberra office to his home two decades ago. Roger Uren, 72,...
February 5, 2020
Malawi's president has instructed his lawyers to appeal the court ruling that nullified last year's presidential election and ordered a new vote, his spokesman said Wednesday. Monday's ruling was just...
February 5, 2020
Three men who are members of an Iranian separatist group, the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz, have been jailed in pre-trial custody in Denmark until Feb. 27,...
