The top opposition candidate in Belarus' presidential vote, who initially refused to concede her defeat amid a massive police crackdown on anti-government protesters, said Tuesday she has left for Lithuania...
August 11, 2020
As an entrepreneur, he helped pioneer cellular service in Haiti as the chief executive officer of a mobile phone company where he made corporate giving and responsibility the rule rather...
August 11, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that a coronavirus vaccine developed in the country has been registered for use and one of his daughters has already been inoculated. Speaking at a...
August 11, 2020
Media mogul Jimmy Lai was let out of police custody on Tuesday evening after more than 40 hours to cheers from supporters of the pro-democracy movement. The South China Morning...
August 11, 2020
The name might just say it all. In a global first, Russia announced Tuesday that it had developed a ready-for-use coronavirus vaccine. And, in a not-at-all-subtle nod to a decades-old...
August 11, 2020
New Zealand's largest city was placed in lockdown after the country's coronavirus-free status ended after more than 100 days with the detection of four cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday. Prime...
August 11, 2020
President Vladimir Putin said Russia has registered its first COVID-19 vaccine, calling it an effective protection against the deadly pathogen, and disclosed that one of his own daughters had already...
August 11, 2020
When her regular clinic ran out of her government-funded HIV medications amid South Africa's COVID-19 lockdown, Sibongile Zulu panicked. A local pharmacy had the drugs for $48, but she didn't...
August 11, 2020
The Lithuanian foreign minister says that the leading opposition candidate in Belarus' presidential election has fled her country and is now “safe” in Lithuania. Linas Linkevicius made the statement on...
August 11, 2020
EDITORS — With the Tokyo Olympics postponed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Associated Press is looking back at the history of Summer Games. South Korean boxer...
August 11, 2020
More than 2,000 years ago, a powerful king built a fort on the banks of India's holiest river, on the fringes of what is now a vast industrial city. Today,...
August 10, 2020
Chemical experts and firefighters are working to secure at least 20 potentially dangerous chemical containers at the explosion-shattered port of Beirut, after finding one that was leaking, according to a...
August 10, 2020
Amid an unprecedented electoral debacle, the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico said Monday it will evaluate claims filed by two candidates from opposing political parties who are calling for all...
August 10, 2020
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August 10, 2020
After the relaxation of some restrictions in July, Havana went back into lockdown on Monday, after more than 200 coronavirus cases were reported in the last two weeks. In the...
August 10, 2020
The future of Puerto Rico's botched primaries rested in the hands of a judge on Monday as answers trickled out on why voting centers lacked ballots and forced officials to...
August 10, 2020
China on Monday announced unspecified sanctions against 11 U.S. politicians and heads of organizations promoting democratic causes, including Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who have already been singled out...
August 10, 2020
An amateur treasure-hunter has uncovered one of the most significant Bronze Age hoards ever found in Scotland, including jewelry and a 3,000-year-old sword, authorities said Monday. Metal detectorist Mariusz Stepien...
August 10, 2020
A Lebanese judge on Monday began questioning the heads of the country's security agencies over last week's devastating blast in Beirut as another Cabinet minister resigned in protest. Judge Ghassan...
August 10, 2020
Election officials in Belarus said Monday that President Alexander Lukashenko has won his sixth consecutive term, taking over 80% of the vote amid protests fueled by frustration with the country's...
August 10, 2020
Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, an outspoken supporter of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests, was arrested Monday along with his sons and several colleagues at the Apple Daily newspaper in a shocking...
August 10, 2020
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani signed a decree for the controversial release of 400 Taliban fighters to kick-start Afghan peace talks, a statement by the presidential palace said on Monday. Their...
August 10, 2020
Protests broke out on Monday evening in the center of Minsk, after a wave of arrests throughout Belarus following the landslide victory of incumbent Alexander Lukashenko in an election many...
August 10, 2020
Protests broke out on Monday evening in the center of Minsk, after a wave of arrests throughout Belarus following the landslide victory of incumbent Alexander Lukashenko in an election many...
August 10, 2020
Lebanon's beleaguered prime minister and the rest of his Cabinet resigned Monday, the country's health minister said, six days after a catastrophic explosion in Beirut's port leveled large swaths of...
August 10, 2020
The 160-year-old palace withstood two world wars, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the French mandate and Lebanese independence. After the country's 1975-1990 civil war, it took 20 years of...
August 10, 2020
As a domestic worker, Amsale Hailemariam knew from the inside out the luxury villas that had grown up around her simple shelter of raw metal and plastic sheeting. And in...
August 10, 2020
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday during the highest-level visit by an American Cabinet official since the break in formal...
August 10, 2020
Hong Kong police arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai and raided the publisher's headquarters Monday in the highest-profile use yet of the new national security law Beijing imposed on the city...
August 10, 2020
An aide to Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai says Lai was arrested Monday morning under the city's national security law on suspicion of collusion with foreign powers. “Jimmy Lai...
August 9, 2020
The leaders of the main political parties in Puerto Rico called on Sunday for the island's primary elections to be suspended, hours after more than half of the precincts on...
August 9, 2020
An Israeli jewelry company is working on what it says will be the world's most expensive coronavirus mask, a gold, diamond-encrusted face covering with a price tag of $1.5 million....
August 9, 2020
Puerto Rico on Sunday was forced to partially suspend voting for primaries marred by a lack of ballots as officials called on the president of the U.S. territory's elections commission...
August 9, 2020
Franca Valeri, an elegant, ironic and versatile actor who pioneered female comic roles in Italy's post-war years and helped the nation laugh at its foibles, has died at 100. The...
August 9, 2020
Abdenabi Nouidi sold his favorite horse for $150 to help feed the others on the team that pulls tourists in carriages through the buzzing streets of Marrakech, and he is...
August 9, 2020
Lebanon's information minister resigned on Sunday as the country grapples with the aftermath of the devastating blast that ripped through the capital and raised public anger to new levels. The...
August 9, 2020
Hospitals and schools, then shattered and bent water pipes, then the crater that once was Lebanon's port. The rebuilding needs of Lebanon are immense, but so is the question of...
August 9, 2020
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar arrived in Taiwan on Sunday in the highest-level visit by an American Cabinet official since the break in formal diplomatic relations between...
August 9, 2020
Masks during class, masks only in the halls, no masks at all. Distance when possible, no distance within same-grade groups, no distance at all. As Germany's 16 states start sending...
August 9, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is forcing India's children out of school and into farms and factories to work, worsening a child-labor problem that was already one of the direst in the...
