Rio de Janeiro delayed its annual Carnival parade, saying Thursday night that the global spectacle cannot go ahead in February because of Brazil's continued vulnerability to the pandemic. Rio's League...
September 24, 2020
Israel on Thursday moved to further tighten its second countrywide lockdown as coronavirus cases continued to soar, ordering all nonessential businesses to close and requiring people to stay within 1,000...
September 24, 2020
China, the United States and Russia butted heads at the United Nations on Thursday over responsibility for the pandemic that has interrupted the world, trading allegations about who mishandled and...
September 24, 2020
Britain's film academy is shaking up its membership and its awards voting rules in a review prompted by the glaring lack of diversity in the nominations. The British Academy of...
September 24, 2020
South Africans of all walks of life are dancing to “Jerusalema,” a rousing anthem to lift their spirits amid the battle against COVID-19. In response to a call from President...
September 24, 2020
2020 just earned another feather in its cap. A factory in Vietnam was busted last week for planning to recycle and resell more than 300,000 used condoms, officials say. Authorities...
September 24, 2020
Hermit Kingdom? Not quite. To pay close attention to North Korean diplomacy is to notice the many ways it upends the stereotype of the isolated, nuclear-armed wildcard of Northeast Asia....
September 24, 2020
Hermit Kingdom? Not quite. To pay close attention to North Korean diplomacy is to notice the many ways it upends the stereotype of the isolated, nuclear-armed wildcard of Northeast Asia....
September 24, 2020
All the paintings, sculptures and other works that grace museums and galleries around the world are the visible tip of a huge art iceberg. Most of the institutions only have...
September 24, 2020
For the first time in decades of Miss Venezuela competitions, the pageant powerhouse's so-called “most beautiful night” will not be live as organizers try to put on a compelling contest...
September 24, 2020
When world leaders descend on the United Nations for their yearly meeting, U.N. headquarters in New York City transforms into a hectic, vibrant place. Reporters and TV crews start lining...
September 24, 2020
With concerns growing in Jamaica that more people will require hospitalizations amid a worrying surge in coronavirus cases, the Caribbean nation is getting help from the U.S. Southern Command. Adm....
September 24, 2020
Over 360 more people have been detained in Belarus during protests against the country's authoritarian president, who was unexpectedly sworn in to his sixth term in office after an election...
September 24, 2020
At least 30 of 41 members of a gospel choir in northeastern Spain have contracted coronavirus following a rehearsal indoors with little air circulation, local authorities and the chorus say....
September 24, 2020
Swiss health authorities have ordered a quarantine for a staggering 2,500 students at a prestigious hospitality management school in the city of Lausanne after “significant outbreaks" of the coronavirus that...
September 24, 2020
An announcement last month that Egypt's top prosecutor would investigate an alleged 2014 gang rape of a 17-year-old girl at a luxury Cairo hotel marked a rare moment of triumph...
September 24, 2020
Authorities revised up the number of pilot whales rescued from Australia's worst mass stranding from 50 to 70 on Thursday, as the focus shifted to removing 380 carcasses from Tasmania...
September 24, 2020
Amnesty International said Thursday that thousands of Europe-bound migrants who were intercepted and returned to Libyan shores this year were forcefully disappeared after being taken out of unofficial detention centers...
September 24, 2020
If the United Nations was created from the ashes of World War II, what will be born from the global crisis of COVID-19? Many world leaders at this week's virtual...
September 24, 2020
Haiti's public works minister showed up at the offices of the government's watchdog agency Wednesday. But it wasn't an ordinary visit. Joicéus Nader was accompanied by heavily armed men dressed...
September 24, 2020
Haiti's public works minister showed up at the offices of the government's watchdog agency Wednesday. But it wasn't an ordinary visit. Joicéus Nader was accompanied by heavily armed men dressed...
September 23, 2020
Pierre Troisgros, one of France's top chefs who helped reinvent the country's traditional cuisine, died on Wednesday, French media said. He was 92. French reports quoted the head of the...
September 23, 2020
Dr. Mamadu Baldeh can't forget the 18-year-old who came into his hospital with COVID-19, gasping for air until the day he died. This suffering was all too real for Baldeh,...
September 23, 2020
During a ceremony to honor veterans of the Bay of Pigs, President Trump announced that U.S. travelers will be prohibited from staying at properties owned by the Cuban government and...
September 23, 2020
Americans traveling to Cuba will not be able to buy rum or tobacco as souvenirs, nor will they be able to stay in government hotels, according to new restrictions that...
September 23, 2020
President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has assumed his sixth term of office in an inauguration ceremony that wasn't announced in advance. State news agency Beltra reported that Wednesday's ceremony is...
September 23, 2020
A teenage singer from Lebanon this week became the latest to join a global pop band formed by Simon Fuller, the man behind the Spice Girls and “American Idol,” which...
September 23, 2020
The German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for poisoning says his condition improved enough for him to be released from the facility. The Charite hospital in Berlin said...
September 23, 2020
When Mustafa Kinno felt the ground shake and heard the deafening blast toward the port, he frantically called his brother living nearby. No reply. He tried a neighbor, who said...
September 23, 2020
He's not recognized as a head of state by the country he'd be visiting. His diplomatic immunity is granted by the United Nations, not an unfriendly American administration that could...
September 23, 2020
More pilot whales were found stranded on an Australian coast Wednesday, raising the estimated total to almost 500 in the largest mass stranding ever recorded in the country. Authorities had...
September 23, 2020
A divided Haitian Supreme Court opted Tuesday not to swear in nine newly appointed members of President Jovenel Moïse's Provisional Electoral Council, whose appointments and mandate to prepare a referendum...
September 23, 2020
Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country will aim to stop adding to the global warming problem by 2060. Xi's announcement during a speech Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly...
September 22, 2020
Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country will aim to stop adding to the global warming problem by 2060. Xi's announcement during a speech Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly...
September 22, 2020
The image was plastered all across social media: Unconventional U.S. presidential candidate and rapper-producer Kanye West relaxing in a Kingston, Jamaica, recording studio with Jamaican reggae icon Buju Banton. Oh,...
September 22, 2020
Once again, the truth about what President Donald Trump really thinks about Cuba has come to light. He may peddle the hard line to his Republican Cuban-American supporters in Miami,...
September 22, 2020
What do you do when Vladimir Putin offers you Russia's new coronavirus vaccine, for free? United Nations staff in New York and around the world are now facing that choice,...
September 22, 2020
What do you do when Vladimir Putin offers you Russia's new coronavirus vaccine, for free? United Nations staff in New York and around the world are now facing that choice,...
September 22, 2020
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivered a defiant and fiery speech Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly as his nation grapples with the Middle East's worst coronavirus outbreak and a weakened...
September 22, 2020
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivered a defiant and fiery speech Tuesday to the U.N. General Assembly as his nation grapples with the Middle East's worst coronavirus outbreak and a weakened...
