One of the first projects approved for Haiti's reconstruction following the cataclysmic earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010, was a sprawling new hospital campus rising out of the ground near downtown...
January 11, 2020
Britain has sparked a diplomatic standoff with Washington by requesting the extradition of a U.S. woman charged over a road crash that killed a U.K. teenager. The British government said...
January 11, 2020
Malta's Labor Party was choosing a new leader Saturday to replace Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, who announced his resignation amid increasing demands at home and abroad for accountability following the...
January 11, 2020
Greece's coast guard says 12 migrants have been found dead in the Ionian Sea and 21 others have been rescued after their boat took in water and sank. Searchers are...
January 11, 2020
A roadside bomb hit a U.S. army vehicle Saturday in Afghanistan, both NATO and Afghan officials confirmed, without providing any details. Qari Yusouf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, immediately claimed responsibility...
January 11, 2020
A fire engulfed part of a nursing home in northern Croatia early Saturday, killing at least six people, Croatian media reported. Police confirmed some deaths but would not immediately say...
January 11, 2020
Unofficial early results from Taiwanese television networks showed President Tsai Ing-wen leading her closest challenger, Han Kuo-yu of the Nationalist Party, in Saturday's presidential election, possibly putting her on the...
January 11, 2020
Two Eritrean asylum-seekers were shot dead in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, days after the U.N. refugee agency pressed them to leave its facility citing overcrowding. The UNHCR confirmed the deaths...
January 11, 2020
The latest on Iran-related developments (all times local): 12:15 p.m. Ukraine's president says Iran must take further steps, including an official apology, following its admission that one of its missiles...
January 11, 2020
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy to officially apologize to Ukraine for accidentally shooting down a Ukraine International Airlines passenger plane earlier this week. "(Rouhani)...
January 11, 2020
President Tsai Ing-wen won a landslide victory over China-friendly opposition challenger Han Kuo-yu to clinch a second term in Taiwan's presidential election, dealing a blow to Beijing, which has long...
January 11, 2020
North Korea won't rely on the personal relationship between its leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump as it doesn't intend to trade its nuclear weapons for a...
January 11, 2020
Two U.S. service members were killed and two others wounded when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Saturday, NATO's Resolute Support mission said in...
January 11, 2020
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe plans to withdraw "provisionally" an effort to raise the age when workers can retire with full benefits, called the pivot age, he said in a...
January 11, 2020
Oman's new Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said promised on Saturday to maintain the foreign policy of his predecessor after he was sworn in as the Gulf state's new ruler...
January 11, 2020
Authorities in southern Kerala state on Saturday razed down two high-rise luxury apartments using controlled implosion in one of the largest demolition drives in India involving residential complexes for violating...
January 11, 2020
Oman announced Saturday that culture minister Haitham bin Tariq Al Said has been named as the new ruler of the Arabian country and the successor to longtime ruler Sultan Qaboos....
January 11, 2020
At least 20 people died when a double-decker bus caught fire after ramming into a truck on a highway in northern India, police said. Another 21 people were taken to...
January 11, 2020
Taiwanese are casting their votes Saturday for the president and legislature of a self-governing island that acts like a sovereign nation yet is not recognized by the U.N. or any...
January 11, 2020
The United Nations says seven countries are so far behind in paying their dues that they are losing their voting privileges in the 193-member General Assembly, including Venezuela and Lebanon....
January 11, 2020
Iranian state TV, citing a military statement, says the country ‘unintentionally' shot down a Ukrainian jetliner, killing all 176 aboard. The statement came Saturday morning and blamed “human error” for...
January 11, 2020
Health authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan are reporting the first death from a new type of coronavirus. The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission reported Saturday that seven other...
January 11, 2020
Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Mideast's longest-ruling monarch who seized power in a 1970 palace coup and pulled his Arabian sultanate into modernity while carefully balancing diplomatic ties between...
January 11, 2020
State media say Oman's ruler, Sultan Qaboos bin Said, as died at the age of 79. The sultan has ruled Oman since overthrowing his father in a bloodless 1970 coup....
January 11, 2020
The future of Taiwan's democracy is on the line as the self-ruled island's 19 million voters decide on whether to give independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen a second term. Voting began...
January 10, 2020
Milan Fashion Week opened Friday on a festive note, with Sister Sledge dressed in shimmering jumpsuits belting out their hit “We Are Family” to fete Canadian twins for the 25th...
January 10, 2020
Two wildfires have merged to form a massive inferno in southeast Australia, and man suffered serious burns protecting a home during a night of treacherous conditions during the nation's unprecedented...
January 10, 2020
Ever since Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico in 2017, leading to the deaths of almost 3,000 people and causing an estimated $102 billion in damage, this U.S. territory has been...
January 10, 2020
The head of a congressional commission in Guatemala says prosecutors should open a criminal investigation into the now-disappeared U.N. anti-corruption commission known as the CICG. President Jimmy Morales forced the...
January 10, 2020
Puerto Rico is working to recover from earthquakes that have damaged homes and buildings in the U.S. territory. Starting on Dec. 28, the island, home of 3.2 million people, has...
January 10, 2020
Egypt reopened a historic synagogue on Friday in the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria after a yearslong government renovation. But only a handful of Jews remain from Egypt's once-thriving community,...
January 10, 2020
A court in Poland has found state TV station guilty of insulting city authorities in Gdansk, including its slain mayor, and ordered the news station to publicly apologize and pay...
January 10, 2020
Lawmakers in Tunisia were voting on a new government Friday, but only the moderate Islamist party that finished first in an October election said it would support the Cabinet proposed...
January 10, 2020
The former rebel leader who seized power in the Central African Republic and became president before heading into exile, returned to the country's capital on Friday. Michel Djotodia, who has...
January 10, 2020
Colombia's president said Friday that rebels were behind an early morning attack on an air force base that injured an officer. President Ivan Duque blamed the rebel National Liberation Army...
January 10, 2020
An Iranian accused of involvement in the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina has added to speculation over the mysterious death of a prosecutor who investigated the...
January 10, 2020
The Islamic State group gloated over the recent U.S. killing of a senior Iranian general, who rose to prominence by advising forces fighting the extremists. In the first IS comments...
January 10, 2020
Truckers in Slovakia blocked roads and border crossings on Friday to demand tax cuts, causing traffic disruptions across the country . Police said three border crossings to neighboring Czech Republic...
January 10, 2020
Pitbull's controversial support of the duo Gente de Zona during his New Year's Eve show on Bayfront Park sparked criticism from some of the top music names in Miami's Cuban...
January 10, 2020
Israel released two more Syrian prisoners back to the occupied Golan Heights on Friday, a second goodwill gesture to Russia for helping find the remains of an Israeli soldier missing...
