U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called again for an immediate cease-fire in Libya and a return to talks by all the warring parties. The U.N. chief warned in a...
January 3, 2020
Bundled against the cold, dozens of asylum seekers pushed back into Mexico by the United States tried Friday to get their bearings, still unsure of how they would travel some...
January 3, 2020
Relatives of people killed by guerrillas during El Salvador's 1980-1992 civil war demanded Friday that prosecutors investigate some former leftist rebels for crimes against humanity. El Salvador's armed forces committed...
January 3, 2020
As bushfires continue to ravage large swaths of Australia, there have been growing concerns over the extinction status of koalas. On Dec. 27, Australia's Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley said...
January 3, 2020
The unprecedented killing of Iran's top general in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq has sent shockwaves across the Middle East, with Iran and its allies vowing revenge amid fears of...
January 3, 2020
Britain is looking for a few good weirdos. That's the word from one of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's top advisers, who in a lengthy blog post Friday appealed for a...
January 3, 2020
A man armed with a knife attacked passers-by Friday in a southern Paris park, injuring some, before being shot by police, French officials said. A local mayor said one person...
January 3, 2020
A Shanghai TV station has acknowledged that footage of a formation of 2,000 drones flying over the city broadcast on New Year's Eve had actually been prerecorded days before. The...
January 3, 2020
Krefeld Zoo in western Germany reopened Friday, two days after a deadly fire swept through a primate enclosure killing dozens of animals. Investigators believe the blaze — which killed more...
January 3, 2020
A boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey's Aegean coast, killing eight people, Turkey's Interior Ministry said Friday. A search-and-rescue mission continued for about seven migrants thought to be missing. A...
January 3, 2020
Police arrested seven young men for allegedly taking part in a mob sexual assault of a young woman during New Year's Eve celebrations, a senior security official said Friday. Since...
January 3, 2020
Montenegro on Friday strongly denounced aggression against its embassy in Serbia during a protest by thousands of ultra-nationalists, saying the actions of soccer hooligans who threw flares and chanted “Set...
January 3, 2020
The number of cases of a new type of viral pneumonia linked to a food market in central China has risen to 44, local health authorities said Friday, in an...
January 3, 2020
Pope Francis called on governments Friday to ensure everyone has access to suitable health care. In an annual papal message reflecting on the needs of ill people, Francis urged health...
January 3, 2020
Over the past few weeks, Venezuela's opposition has been raising the alarms about “Operation Scorpion” — a campaign of intimidation, bribery and extortion to derail the reelection of National Assembly...
January 3, 2020
The prime minister of North Macedonia submitted his resignation Friday, paving the way for a new caretaker Cabinet to be named in order to organize a snap election. Prime Minister...
January 3, 2020
Global powers are warning that the world has become a more dangerous place after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the targeted killing of Iran's top general and are urging restraint...
January 3, 2020
Croatia's bitterly contested presidential race is headed for a runoff this weekend to decide whether a conservative or a liberal will become the new head of state while the country...
January 3, 2020
Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz says he's optimistic that his new coalition government with the environmentalist Greens will last a full five-year term — something that the country's last two...
January 3, 2020
If Iran decides to follow through on its vow of harsh retaliation for the killing of its top general, it can call upon heavily armed allies across the Middle East...
January 3, 2020
Sri Lanka's new president on Friday endorsed amending the constitution to reduce the power of minority political parties, saying the country wasn't suited to a system that creates unstable governments...
January 3, 2020
Sudan's military says one of its aircraft has crashed in the western Darfour region on Thursday evening, killing all 16 people on board. The military says several officers were among...
January 3, 2020
President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. airstrike that killed Gen. Qassem Suleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, on Friday at Baghdad's international airport, the Pentagon said, a dramatic...
January 3, 2020
Iran's leaders and allied militias on Friday vowed revenge after the killing of a top Iranian general and an Iraqi militia leader in a U.S. attack in Baghdad. The airstrike...
January 3, 2020
WASHINGTON – In ordering the killing of Gen. Qassem Suleimani, one of Iran's highest-ranking officials, President Donald Trump has taken one of the biggest gambles of his presidency – a...
January 3, 2020
More than 1,000 members of India's LGBTQ community, rights groups and their supporters marched through the streets of the capital on Friday to protest a citizenship law that excludes Muslims....
January 3, 2020
The latest on the U.S. airstrike near Baghdad that killed Iran's top general: 10:25 a.m. Iran's foreign minister says the U.S. airstrike near Baghdad's airport that killed Iran's top general...
January 3, 2020
Iran has vowed “harsh retaliation” for a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad's airport that killed Iran's top general and the architect of its interventions across the Middle East, as tensions soared...
January 3, 2020
All her life, Elham Balatone wanted to play soccer — like her brothers, like the boys on her street. But in the Sudan where she grew up, women could be...
January 3, 2020
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a veteran Iraqi militant who was closely allied with Iran and rose to be a senior militia commander during the war against the Islamic State group, was...
January 3, 2020
The death toll from floods in Indonesia's capital rose to 43 of Friday as rescuers found more bodies amid receding floodwaters, disaster officials said. Monsoon rains and rising rivers submerged...
January 3, 2020
A Sri Lankan air force plane crashed on Friday, killing all four crew members on board, an air force spokesman said. The crash occurred in Haputale district in the island's...
January 3, 2020
Taiwan grounded its fleet of Black Hawk helicopters after a crash killed the island's top military officer and other prominent personnel. The official Central News Agency said Friday all 52...
January 3, 2020
Navy ships plucked hundreds of people from beaches and tens of thousands were urged to flee Friday before hot weather and strong winds in the forecast worsen Australia's already-devastating wildfires....
January 3, 2020
The U.S. consulate in Nuevo Laredo said Thursday U.S. government personnel remained under “enhanced restrictions on their movements,” a day after gunbattles in the city across the border from Laredo,...
January 3, 2020
The U.N. secretary-general says 2019 was the most violent year for former fighters from Colombia's largest rebel group since it signed a peace deal with the government in 2016. Antonio...
January 2, 2020
At least three Katyusha rockets were fired at Baghdad International Airport Friday, causing multiple casualties, Iraqi security officials said. Iraq's Security Media Cell, which releases information regarding Iraqi security, said...
January 2, 2020
The U.N. Security Council is going to receive a closed briefing on the ongoing offensive in the last rebel stronghold in Syria at the request of France and the United...
January 2, 2020
A 4.5-magnitude earthquake hit Puerto Rico on Thursday in the latest of a rare string of quakes that has frightened many in the U.S. territory. The most recent quake occurred...
