Melbourne's usually vibrant downtown streets were draining of signs of life on Wednesday on the eve of Australia's toughest-ever pandemic restrictions coming into force. Many of the stylish boutiques and...
August 5, 2020
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe renewed calls to abolish atomic weapons and warned of a worsening global security situation on the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, at...
August 5, 2020
Word spread quickly here after gunfire erupted at a neighborhood drug rehab center. Natalia Acosta Medina bolted from her patio, sprinted through the muddy streets and climbed the stairs of...
August 5, 2020
The world extended condolences and aid to Lebanon on Wednesday as rescue workers searched for people missing under collapsed buildings, a day after a massive blast at the port of...
August 5, 2020
The Latest on the explosion in Beirut (all times local): 09:45 a.m. Prime Minister Hassan Diab, in a short televised speech, has appealed to all countries and friends of Lebanon...
August 5, 2020
Residents of Beirut awoke to a scene of utter devastation on Wednesday, a day after a massive explosion at the port sent shock waves across the Lebanese capital, killing dozens...
August 5, 2020
He was heralded in the Philippines as the country's youngest COVID-19 survivor, a baby who'd become infected with and conquered the coronavirus during his first 16 days of life. To...
August 5, 2020
The atomic bomb that exploded over Hiroshima 75 years ago didn't just kill and maim. The survivors have also lived for decades with lingering shame, anger and fear. Many in...
August 5, 2020
The U.S. says Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar will visit Taiwan in coming days in the highest-level visit by an American Cabinet official since the break in formal...
August 5, 2020
For almost a century, no outsider was allowed to buy land and property in Indian-controlled Kashmir. That changed Aug. 5 last year when India's Hindu nationalist government led by Prime...
August 4, 2020
Jacques Letang, president of the Haitian Bar Federation and founding member of the Human Rights Office in Haiti address the U.N. Security Council in June on the deteriorating human rights...
August 4, 2020
The United States will continue supporting Venezuela's National Assembly President Juan Guaidó as the country's rightful leader, despite Nicolás Maduro's efforts to orchestrate a “fraudulent” election, a top U.S. diplomat...
August 4, 2020
Jessica Gervais wants her baby. The infant, Godson Joseph, became Haiti's latest murder victim Monday when he was killed during a gang ambush just east of the capital near the...
August 4, 2020
Fidel Castro has risen from his oversized, corn-kernel-shaped tomb in Santa Ifigenia Cemetery to play a role in another American presidential election. This time, Castro's ghost looms over Democrat Joe...
August 4, 2020
The State Department's top official on Venezuela said Tuesday that the Trump administration will continue recognizing lawmaker Juan Guaidó as the nation's interim president even if President Nicolás Maduro's government...
August 4, 2020
A huge explosion rocked downtown Beirut, Lebanon's capital on Tuesday August 4, 2020. Video shows a big cloud of smoke above the capital. … Click to Continue »
August 4, 2020
A massive explosion shook Lebanon's capital Beirut on Tuesday wounding a number people and causing widespread damage. The afternoon blast shook several parts of the capital and thick smoke billowed...
August 4, 2020
A 37-year-old former English teacher without political experience seems an unlikely challenger to the authoritarian president of Belarus who has been the ex-Soviet nation's only leader for more than a...
August 4, 2020
A 37-year-old former English teacher without political experience seems an unlikely challenger to the authoritarian president of Belarus who has been the ex-Soviet nation's only leader for more than a...
August 4, 2020
North Korea appears to be making progress in the development of nuclear weapons, according to a classified United Nations report, details of which were confirmed to dpa on Monday. North...
August 4, 2020
A massive explosion at Lebanon's main port rocked the capital Beirut and its suburbs, injuring dozens of people and damaging many buildings. Footage showed a huge plume of smoke billowing...
August 4, 2020
First he gave up his crown, then he was stripped of his official income. Now Juan Carlos I is abandoning the country where he reigned for almost four decades for...
August 4, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has led to the largest disruption of education ever, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday, warning that the world faces a "generational catastrophe." "In...
August 4, 2020
Japan's tally of virus infections is shooting up faster than ever, and support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is sinking to new lows. While Japan's total death toll remains close...
August 4, 2020
The U.S. has circulated a new resolution to United Nations Security Council members calling for an extension of the U.N.'s arms embargo against Iran, according to a copy of the...
August 4, 2020
North Korea appears to be making progress developing nuclear weapons, according to a classified United Nations report, details of which were confirmed to dpa on Monday. North Korea "probably developed...
August 4, 2020
Alvaro Uribe, the most powerful leader in Colombia's recent history, was placed under house arrest while he's being investigated over an alleged plot to bribe jailed mobsters. The Supreme Court...
August 4, 2020
Three men have been rescued from a tiny Pacific island after writing a giant SOS sign in the sand that was spotted from above, authorities say. The men had been...
August 4, 2020
For nearly 70 years, until he turned 85, Lee Jong-keun hid his past as an atomic bomb survivor, fearful of the widespread discrimination against blast victims that has long persisted...
August 4, 2020
Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis announced Monday a complete lockdown of the country for the next two weeks, saying the bed capacity and human resources were being “increasingly stretched” amid...
August 3, 2020
California Rep. Karen Bass, who is on Joe Biden's vice presidential shortlist, said she now realizes that referring to Fidel Castro as “comandante en jefe,” or commander in chief, after...
August 3, 2020
Spain's former monarch, Juan Carlos I, is leaving Spain to live in another, unspecified, country amid a financial scandal, according to a letter published on the royal family's website Monday....
August 3, 2020
John Hume, the visionary politician who won a Nobel Peace Prize for fashioning the agreement that ended violence in his native Northern Ireland, has died at 83, his family said...
August 3, 2020
Like most Spaniards, Emma Gaya thought the worst of the pandemic was behind her. Spain's government had ended a three-month lockdown after an COVID-19 onslaught that claimed at least 28,400...
August 3, 2020
Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has fallen ill after his return from a trip to his native Bavaria to visit his brother, who died a month ago, a German newspaper reported...
August 3, 2020
A Norwegian cruise ship line halted all trips and apologized Monday for procedural errors after an outbreak of coronavirus on one ship infected at least 4 passengers and 36 crew...
August 3, 2020
Pipe by precious pipe, the organ that once thundered through Notre Dame Cathedral is being taken apart after last year's devastating fire. The mammoth task of dismantling, cleaning and re-assembling...
August 3, 2020
It wasn't yet 9 a.m., but Promdeth Phonsrikaew stood sweat-soaked in the field. He was in his third hour of picking tobacco, beginning shortly after dawn at the foot of...
August 3, 2020
Former Northern Ireland politician and Nobel Peace laureate John Hume has died at the age of 83, it was reported on Monday. Hume's family said they were "deeply saddened to...
August 3, 2020
At least 29 people were killed in a 20-hour siege at a prison in eastern Afghanistan when Islamic State militants attempted to free hundreds of its members from the compound....
