Over the next week, world leaders will gather twice to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of Nazi Germany's death camps. That there will...
January 22, 2020
A man with a sledgehammer pounded at the bust of his country's former leader adorning a huge sports stadium that his government had built and named after the then long-reigning...
January 22, 2020
Commuters in Wuhan wore face masks on the subway on January 21 as authorities confirmed more than 400 cases of the coronavirus had been identified following an outbreak in the...
January 22, 2020
Rescuers took advantage of improved weather on Nepal's Mount Annapurna to press ahead with a search for four South Korean climbers and three Nepali guides and have a possible location...
January 22, 2020
A fifth body has been found on a property in this border city, and Mexican officials said Tuesday that they are beginning to suspect they may have a serial killer...
January 22, 2020
Defending champion Naomi Osaka threw her racket, tossed a ball and kicked the racket again for good measure, before sitting for a while with a towel over her head. She...
January 22, 2020
Xiomara Cruz Miranda, a former Cuban political prisoner and member of the opposition Ladies in White, arrived in Miami from Havana Tuesday on a U.S. humanitarian visa as she is...
January 22, 2020
China said Wednesday that the number of cases of a new virus has risen to 440 and the death toll has risen to 9. Deputy Director of the National Health...
January 22, 2020
The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday welcomed the commitment by world powers and other key countries to support a plan to restore peace in Libya and urged the warring parties...
January 21, 2020
Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez asked the U.S. government Tuesday to issue a major disaster declaration for 10 additional municipalities following the recent damaging earthquake. The petition came two weeks...
January 21, 2020
Prosecutors in western Mexico have called in 53 local police for questioning in the Jan. 14 disappearance of a long-time promoter and protector of the wintering grounds of the monarch...
January 21, 2020
A koala-sniffing dog with a California connection is helping animal rescuers track down wildlife that lived through the deadly wildfires that have ravaged Australia in recent months. The dog named...
January 21, 2020
Militants attacked a market in Burkina Faso's Sanmatenga province, killing at least 36 people and wounding several others, the government said Tuesday. The gunmen then burned the market, according to...
January 21, 2020
Security forces loyal to President Nicolás Maduro on Tuesday surrounded and closed the building that houses the offices of opposition lawmaker Juan Guaidó, who was in London as part of...
January 21, 2020
Puerto Rican officials continued to distance themselves from a growing scandal involving tons of emergency supplies that were never distributed in the wake of a powerful series of earthquakes. Speaking...
January 21, 2020
A new Cabinet was announced in crisis-hit Lebanon late Tuesday, breaking a months-long impasse amid ongoing mass protests against the country's ruling elite. Hassan Diab, a 60-year-old professor at the...
January 21, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renewed a vow to annex Israeli settlements in the West Bank as the embattled leader kicked off a third election campaign in under a year...
January 21, 2020
The Saudi-led military coalition fighting in Yemen stepped up its bombing campaign Tuesday, launching airstrikes near the rebel-held capital in clashes that killed at least 35 people, Yemeni security officials...
January 21, 2020
The U.S. Embassy in Libya on Tuesday called for the immediate resumption of oil production in the country, pressuring eastern Libyan forces who have sought to choke off oil exports...
January 21, 2020
Poland appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to refrain from using World War II and Holocaust victims for current political goals and pointed to wartime documents in which...
January 21, 2020
Incendiary balloons Palestinians launched from the Gaza Strip recently were a signal to Israel to accelerate unofficial “understandings” meant to ease the crippling blockade on the Hamas-ruled territory, a senior...
January 21, 2020
Prosecutors in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais said Tuesday they will present charges against mining giant Vale, its German auditor Tuv Sud and 16 individuals in connection with the...
January 21, 2020
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance must beef up its military training operation in Iraq to ensure that its members are not drawn back into combat there against Islamic...
January 21, 2020
The number of homicides in Mexico rose to 35,588 in 2019, but the rate of annual increase in murders has slowed, according to government figures. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador...
January 21, 2020
Venezuelan lawmakers opposed to President Nicolás Maduro called off an attempt to hold a session in the national congress building on Tuesday, saying they wanted to avoid clashes with security...
January 21, 2020
A U.N. human rights panel has ruled for the first time that people fleeing the effects of climate change may be entitled to claim asylum, even as it dismissed an...
January 21, 2020
Twelve tigers and five lions have been relocated to a sanctuary in South Africa after being rescued from circuses in Guatemala following years of abuse and confinement. The animals, both...
January 21, 2020
A court in eastern Germany indicated Tuesday that it will likely reject a Jewish man's bid to force the removal of an ugly remnant of centuries of anti-Semitism from a...
January 21, 2020
One of the five contenders to lead Britain's main opposition Labour Party dropped out of the race on Tuesday after struggling to build momentum behind her campaign. Lawmaker Jess Phillips...
January 21, 2020
An American freelance journalist who was detained in Lebanon on suspicion of broadcasting live footage of protests to an Israeli news outlet has been released, the journalist said Tuesday. Nicholas...
January 21, 2020
Officials from Thailand have held their first formal meeting in recent years with Muslim separatists from southern Thailand belonging to the Barisan Revolusi Nasional Melayu Patani, or BRN, the major...
January 21, 2020
Prince Harry has reunited with his wife Meghan in Canada as he steps back from royal duties. Video from Sky News shows Harry landing at Victoria's airport on Vancouver Island...
January 21, 2020
A preliminary court hearing opened Tuesday in the trial of a Dutch father accused of shutting his children off from the outside world for years and of physically abusing them....
January 21, 2020
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader said Tuesday he will roll out anti-government street protests this year, declaring that the collapsing economy will improve only if political issues, including a long-disputed election,...
January 21, 2020
An airstrike on a rebel-held village in northern Syria on Tuesday killed at least nine people, including an entire family, Syrian opposition activists said. The strike on Kfar Taal comes...
January 21, 2020
Regional officials in Ethiopia on Tuesday confirmed 10 deaths and 250 people injured after a wooden platform collapsed during a religious event the day before. Thousands of people attended the...
January 21, 2020
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a Congressional delegation paid a visit Tuesday to the site of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau ahead of the 75th anniversary...
January 21, 2020
A high court judge is set to become Greece's first female president after two opposition parties sided with the center-right government's nomination. Katerina Sakellaropoulou, 63, has served as president of...
January 21, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is calling on the world to take “concrete actions” against the International Criminal Court ahead of a possible war-crimes case against Israel. The ICC's chief...
January 21, 2020
On Jan. 27, 1945, the Soviet Red Army liberated the Auschwitz death camp in German-occupied Poland. The Germans had already fled westward, leaving behind the bodies of prisoners who had...
