Two suspected rebels and an Indian paramilitary soldier were killed in brief fighting in disputed Kashmir on Wednesday, officials said. Government forces detained a suspected militant after the fighting. Paramilitary...
February 5, 2020
The Thai airline employee handed the passport back with a gloved hand and leaned over the counter, his voice muffled through a surgical mask. "I see you are American, but...
February 5, 2020
An avalanche hit a road in eastern Turkey, burying a snow-clearing vehicle and a minibus, and killing at least five people, an official said Wednesday. Two other people are reported...
February 5, 2020
A team of scientists is preparing to dive deep into the depths of the Indian Ocean — into a “Midnight Zone” where light barely reaches but life still thrives. Scientists...
February 5, 2020
Syrian militants affiliated with groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State group are currently being sent by Turkey to fight on behalf of the U.N.-supported government in Libya, according...
February 5, 2020
The Latest on a virus outbreak that began in China (all times local): 1:45 p.m. A charter flight carrying New Zealanders home from Wuhan has landed in Auckland. On board...
February 5, 2020
Tokyo Olympics organizers on Wednesday said they are increasingly concerned about the disruption the fast-spreading virus in China is causing ahead of the games, which open in just under six...
February 5, 2020
Hundreds of people evacuated their homes and farms Wednesday to escape flooding in southern New Zealand. Authorities told many residents in the towns of Gore, Mataura and Wyndham they should...
February 5, 2020
Juan Guaido, the Venezuelan lawmaker the U.S. recognizes as the country's legitimate leader, is expected to appear at President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech on Tuesday. The appearance...
February 5, 2020
Deaths from the new virus rose to 490 in mainland China Wednesday and the number of new cases increased to 24,324, as China moved patients into newly built or converted...
February 4, 2020
As the U.S. continues to enforce strict travel restrictions on travelers from China voer the coronavirus outbreak, an increasing number of Caribbean nations are also doing the same, while taking...
February 4, 2020
Guatemala's recently inaugurated president on Tuesday named an expert on drug-trafficking issues as the head of his new commission that will investigate corruption in the Central American nation's government. Oscar...
February 4, 2020
Puerto Rico police said Tuesday that an autopsy report will help determine who killed an American Airlines pilot over the weekend in front of a strip club in the U.S....
February 4, 2020
A truck loaded with Central American migrants crashed in southern Mexico on Tuesday, killing one and injuring dozens more, authorities said. Images posted online by Mexican media outlets showed the...
February 4, 2020
Guinea's president announced late Tuesday that he would go ahead with a contested plan to revise the West African country's constitution next month, a move that threatened to further inflame...
February 4, 2020
The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday discussed the International Court of Justice's order that Myanmar must do all it can to prevent genocide against the Rohingya Muslims, but failed to...
February 4, 2020
Italy is not looking to leave the European Union but wants reforms that would shift the Britain-less bloc's “center of gravity” away from bureaucratic institutions in Brussels to elected bodies...
February 4, 2020
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday that “a wind of madness is sweeping the globe,” pointing to escalating conflicts from Libya and Yemen to Syria and beyond. At a wide-ranging...
February 4, 2020
A magnitude 5.0 aftershock rattled southern Puerto Rico on Tuesday, causing some cracks but no reported injuries in a region that has been shaken by continuing quakes for more than...
February 4, 2020
Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday signed into law a much-criticized legislation that gives politicians the power to fine and fire judges whose actions and decisions they consider harmful. The...
February 4, 2020
A court in Russia's eastern Siberia on Tuesday convicted two Jehovah's Witnesses of extremism because of their membership in the religious group, the latest in a wave of crackdown on...
February 4, 2020
The U.N.'s special representative for Libya said he hopes cease-fire talks that began Tuesday between the country's warring sides will result in a deal that will convince foreign powers to...
February 4, 2020
The party of ousted President Evo Morales faced a fractured opposition as Bolivia began campaigns Tuesday for May 3 elections to replace the leftist leader, but early polls indicate it...
February 4, 2020
The first lady of Lesotho is set to be charged with murder in connection with the 2017 killing of the prime minister's former wife, police said Tuesday. Maesaiah Thabane, who...
February 4, 2020
Colombia's Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo visited U.S. Southern Command Feb. 4 to meet with SOUTHCOM commander, U.S. Navy Adm. Craig Faller, and command leadership to discuss security cooperation....
February 4, 2020
Mexican migrants working abroad sent home a record $36 billion in remittances in 2019, the country's central bank reported Tuesday. That was an increase of 7% in remittances from 2018,...
February 4, 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia of engaging in historical revisionism on World War II but said during a visit to Poland on Tuesday that a strong Europe needs to...
February 4, 2020
European and American nationalists attending a conference Tuesday in Rome cheered Brexit, warned of left-wing “totalitarianism” and waxed nostalgic about St. John Paul II's papacy and the “glorious revolution” that...
February 4, 2020
A German appeals court on Tuesday rejected a Jewish man's bid to force the removal of a 700-year-old anti-Semitic statue from a church where Martin Luther once preached. The “Judensau,”...
February 4, 2020
Two hours into a flight from Toronto to Jamaica, a passenger suddenly stood up to announce he'd recently been to China and had contracted coronavirus there, CBC reported. The 29-year-old...
February 4, 2020
The younger brother of the suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester is just as guilty as the attacker, a British prosecutor said Tuesday,...
February 4, 2020
The chair of an independent inquiry into how a prominent British breast surgeon was able to perform unnecessary operations for years concluded Tuesday that more than 1,000 patients might have...
February 4, 2020
Britain on Tuesday urged all of its citizens in China to leave because of the virus outbreak, while Belgium became the latest nation to announce a confirmed case. The U.K....
February 4, 2020
A 1944 painting by German artist George Grosz that depicts Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as the Bible's fratricidal Cain went on display at the German Historical Museum in Berlin on...
February 4, 2020
Four gunmen shot to death nine people at a video game arcade in western Mexico, and among the dead were are three children aged 12, 13 and 14. Prosecutors in...
February 4, 2020
The European Union expressed regret on Tuesday that the United States has decided to use anti-personnel landmines more widely and once again considers them to be an important weapon of...
February 4, 2020
Asylum-seekers demonstrated on the Greek island of Lesbos for a second day to protest increasingly dire living conditions in and around the island's massively overcrowded migrant camp and delays in...
February 4, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that a nationwide vote on constitutional changes he proposed wouldn't be used to extend his current term in office, but remained tight-lipped about his...
February 4, 2020
A male baboon carrying and grooming a lion cub is an unusual sight, yet it happened over the weekend in South Africa's Kruger National Park. The baboon took the cub...
February 4, 2020
The European Union on Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal for securing peace in the Middle East and expressed concern about Israel's plans to annex more Palestinian land. Trump's...
