One of the traditional fixtures of any Christmas Day is to see Queen Elizabeth II and her family go to church. Not this year. The coronavirus pandemic has made sure...
December 25, 2020
Around 1,000 British soldiers were spending Christmas Day trying to clear a huge backlog of truck drivers stuck in southeast England after France briefly closed its border to the U.K.,...
December 25, 2020
Four pregnant women were among 20 migrants whose bodies were found off Tunisia's coast after their smuggling boat sank, Tunisian authorities said Friday, as search efforts continued for 13 others...
December 25, 2020
A court in St. Petersburg on Friday convicted a prominent history professor on charges of murdering and dismembering a female student and sentenced him to 12 1/2 years in prison....
December 25, 2020
Most people who head to Woosung Street in Hong Kong's old-school neighborhood of Jordan are visiting its popular restaurants serving everything from curries to seafood. Others may be headed for...
December 25, 2020
It's been a while since visitors to Greece sought out souvenirs in Athens' oldest neighborhood. The winding streets of Plaka, laid out long before the city imported a grid system,...
December 25, 2020
A Florida lawmaker who was disciplined after using a gay slur against a political rival and who lost re-election earlier this year was taken into custody in Haiti on a...
December 25, 2020
Ivry Gitlis, an acclaimed violinist who played with famed conductors, rock stars and jazz bands around the world and worked to make classical music accessible to the masses, has died...
December 25, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has reshaped the holiday celebrations of NATO's peacekeeping mission in Kosovo but left its role of more than two decades untouched. The Kosovo Force (KFOR) mission was...
December 25, 2020
With rich countries snapping up supplies of COVID-19 vaccines, some parts of the world may have to rely on Chinese-developed shots to try to conquer the outbreak. The question: Will...
December 25, 2020
MEXICO CITY — Mexico became the first country in Latin America to begin vaccinating its population against the coronavirus on Thursday, with the campaign start broadcast live during a news...
December 25, 2020
Bethlehem on Thursday ushered in Christmas Eve with a stream of joyous marching bands and the triumphant arrival of the top Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, but few people...
December 25, 2020
A provincial court in Pakistan ordered the release of a British-born Pakistani man charged in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl. The Sindh High Court's release order Thursday...
December 20, 2020
Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has promised to fix the societal flaws exposed by the coronavirus once the Nordic nation has emerged from the coronavirus crisis. Addressing the nation in...
December 20, 2020
Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has promised to fix the societal flaws exposed by the coronavirus once the Nordic nation has emerged from the coronavirus crisis. Addressing the nation in...
December 20, 2020
Voting has ended in the first local election held in 12 years in Bosnia's southern city of Mostar famed for its picturesque Ottoman architecture and its deep ethnic divisions. About...
December 20, 2020
Voting has ended in the first local election held in 12 years in Bosnia's southern city of Mostar famed for its picturesque Ottoman architecture and its deep ethnic divisions. About...
December 20, 2020
McDonald's China is reportedly releasing a new burger made with Spam and Oreo cookies — and the internet has a lot to say. News of the burger initially broke on...
December 20, 2020
Nigeria's freed schoolboys have reunited with their joyful parents after being held captive for nearly a week by gunmen allied with jihadist rebels in the country's northwest. Relieved parents hugged...
December 20, 2020
American forces under the U.S. Africa Command will begin removing troops from Somalia to an undisclosed location within East Africa, according to a statement on its website. U.S. President Donald...
December 20, 2020
American forces under the U.S. Africa Command will begin removing troops from Somalia to an undisclosed location within East Africa, according to a statement on its website. U.S. President Donald...
December 20, 2020
American forces under the U.S. Africa Command will begin removing troops from Somalia to an undisclosed location within East Africa, according to a statement on its website. U.S. President Donald...
December 20, 2020
American forces under the U.S. Africa Command will begin removing troops from Somalia to an undisclosed location within East Africa, according to a statement on its website. U.S. President Donald...
December 20, 2020
American forces under the U.S. Africa Command will begin removing troops from Somalia to an undisclosed location within East Africa, according to a statement on its website. U.S. President Donald...
December 20, 2020
Nepal's president dissolved Parliament on Sunday after the prime minister recommended the move amid an escalating feud within his Communist Party that is likely to push the Himalayan nation into...
December 20, 2020
In October, Indonesian diplomats and Muslim clerics stepped off a plane in China. While the diplomats were there to finalize deals to ensure millions of doses reached Indonesian citizens, the...
December 20, 2020
In October, Indonesian diplomats and Muslim clerics stepped off a plane in China. While the diplomats were there to finalize deals to ensure millions of doses reached Indonesian citizens, the...
December 20, 2020
In October, Indonesian diplomats and Muslim clerics stepped off a plane in China. While the diplomats were there to finalize deals to ensure millions of doses reached Indonesian citizens, the...
December 20, 2020
Israel on Sunday began its coronavirus inoculation drive, aiming to vaccinate some 60,000 people a day in a bid to stamp out the illness that is once again surging among...
December 20, 2020
A car bomb blast that rocked Afghanistan's capital Sunday morning killed at least nine people, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry. Interior Minister Masoud Andarabi told reporters at the site...
December 20, 2020
Polls opened Sunday in the southern Bosnian city of Mostar for the first local election in over a decade in a city famed for its picturesque Ottoman architecture and its...
December 20, 2020
The Netherlands is banning flights from the U.K. for at least the rest of the year in an attempt to make sure that a new strain of coronavirus that is...
December 19, 2020
BRUSSELS — Negotiators for the European Union and Britain continued their last-ditch talks for a post-Brexit trade deal on Saturday, with less than two weeks to clinch an agreement. Talks...
December 19, 2020
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron is in stable condition after testing positive for the coronavirus, the Elysee Palace said on Saturday. The Elysee said in a statement that test...
December 19, 2020
ISTANBUL — Nine people were killed on Saturday after a fire broke out at an intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients in southern Turkey, state news agency Anadolu reported. An...
December 19, 2020
ISTANBUL — Nine people were killed on Saturday after a fire broke out at an intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients in southern Turkey, state news agency Anadolu reported. An...
December 19, 2020
China threatened to impose countermeasures after Washington decided to blacklist more than 60 Chinese companies, a sign that tensions between the world's two biggest economies may further escalate during the...
December 19, 2020
LONDON — Boris Johnson imposed a full lockdown on London and southeast England in a desperate attempt to stop a new coronavirus strain spreading rapidly over the U.K. After emergency...
December 19, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Christmas gatherings can't go ahead and non-essential shops must close in London and much of southern England, as he imposed a new, higher level...
December 19, 2020
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Christmas gatherings can't go ahead and non-essential shops must close in London and much of southern England, as he imposed a new, higher level...
