Vietnamese state media reported on Friday the country's first ever death of a person with the coronavirus as it struggles with a renewed outbreak after 99 days without any cases....
July 31, 2020
Mexico has overtaken the U.K. to become the country with the third-most deaths from COVID-19, according to data released by the Health Ministry Friday night. Reported fatalities rose 688 from...
July 31, 2020
Coronavirus risks mean elections set for September have to be delayed a year, said Hong Kong's chief executive on Friday, even as opposition activists said authorities are only worried about...
July 31, 2020
In the best of times, it's hard to land one of the slots Saudi Arabia parcels out for the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca that all Muslims are duty-bound...
July 31, 2020
Small groups of pilgrims performed one of the final rites of the Islamic hajj on Friday as Muslims worldwide marked the start of the Eid al-Adha holiday amid a global...
July 31, 2020
New Hurricane Isaias kept on a path early Friday expected to take it to the U.S. East Coast by the weekend as it approached the Bahamas, parts of which are...
July 31, 2020
Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Minnis on Thursday appealed to Bahamians to take an approaching Tropical Storm Isaias seriously and “to prepare for the worse just in case.” The storm is...
July 30, 2020
The United States sanctioned Havin Bank, a London-based Cuban-owned bank, on Thursday in another attempt by the Trump administration to cut off the money flowing to the island's government. The...
July 30, 2020
Economic growth across Latin America and the Caribbean is predicted to drop by more than 9 percent and 231 million people are expected to find themselves slip into poverty as...
July 30, 2020
Tropical Storm Isaias knocked out power and caused flooding and small landslides across Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic on Thursday as forecasters predicted it would strengthen into a hurricane...
July 30, 2020
Placido Domingo will make his first public appearance since recovering from coronavirus to accept a lifetime achievement award in Austria next week. The famed tenor will receive the honor on...
July 30, 2020
Brazil's first lady and a fifth member of President Jair Bolsonaro's Cabinet have tested positive for the new coronavirus, officials said Thursday. Science and Technology Minister Marcos Pontes wrote on...
July 30, 2020
British grime musician Solo 45 was sentenced Thursday to 24 years in prison for raping four women in what police said was among the most violent sexual behavior they had...
July 30, 2020
The latest eye-catching sight in London's Trafalgar Square is a giant swirl of whipped cream topped with a cherry, a fly and a drone. The sculpture by artist Heather Phillipson...
July 30, 2020
The Cuban government's plan to cash in on the reopening of dollar stores seems to have overlooked one detail: the Trump administration's express goal to prevent money sent by Cuban...
July 30, 2020
Milan Kundera, the 91-year-old author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” and other acclaimed novels, has decided to donate his private library and archive to a public library in the...
July 30, 2020
Tropical Storm Isaias battered Puerto Rico on Thursday as it continued on a track toward the U.S. mainland, unleashing small landslides and causing widespread flooding and power outages on an...
July 30, 2020
Following is an excerpt from the upcoming book ‘The Grifter's Club' by Miami Herald journalists Sarah Blaskey, Nicholas Nehamas and Jay Weaver and former Herald journalist Caitlin Ostroff, now with...
July 30, 2020
Masked pilgrims arrived Thursday at Mount Arafat, a desert hill near Islam's holiest site, to pray and repent on the most important day of the hajj, the annual pilgrimage in...
July 30, 2020
Brazil's first lady Michelle Bolsonaro on Thursday tested positive for COVID-19, five days after President Jair Bolsonaro announced he had recovered from the disease. "She is in good health and...
July 30, 2020
Nicole Ma just wanted to get home. The Chinese student's first year studying abroad at Syracuse University in upstate New York had been upended by the coronavirus. It was the...
July 30, 2020
The bright yellow Hotel Holiday in downtown Sarajevo has seen good times and bad times in its 37-year history. Mostly, it has been a symbol of survival in the once-turbulent...
July 30, 2020
As the first rains and winds from a potential tropical storm hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday afternoon, many on the island were figuring out their last-minute preparations. Gas stations in...
July 29, 2020
Guatemalan hospitals say they have had to bury dozens of COVID-19 victims who have never been identified, and one hospital is creating archives in hopes that once the pandemic passes,...
July 29, 2020
The U.S. State Department will appoint Timothy Zúñiga Brown as the new charge d'affaires for its embassy in Havana, the Miami Herald has learned. He will replace Mara Tekach, who...
July 29, 2020
Former Chilean president and current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is joining the call for Haiti to hold death squad leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant accountable for...
July 29, 2020
A day before potential Tropical Storm Isaias was expected to bring rains and winds to Puerto Rico, at least 400,000 customers throughout the island were left without power. The outage...
July 29, 2020
The exact location where Dutch master Vincent van Gogh painted his last work has been pinpointed after being hidden in plain view for years among a tangle of roots next...
July 29, 2020
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard launched underground ballistic missiles as part of an exercise involving a mock-up aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz, state television reported Wednesday. It was the...
July 29, 2020
Muslim pilgrims started performing the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, although Islam's largest gathering has been significantly curtailed due to the coronavirus pandemic. A few thousand people...
July 29, 2020
Zimbabwe's government on Wednesday signed an agreement to pay $3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was expropriated during the long tenure of late former president Robert Mugabe....
July 29, 2020
Emergency management officials from Antigua to Puerto Rico to the Bahamas spent Tuesday watching— and preparing— for the potential arrival of Tropical Storm Isaias, a fast-moving storm churning its way...
July 28, 2020
The U.S. special envoy for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, denied that the United States is willing to engage in talks with Venezuel strongman Nicolás Maduro, during remarks in which he defended...
July 28, 2020
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July 28, 2020
The auction house Sotheby's is holding an online sale featuring artwork that spans five centuries of art history, from Rembrandt to Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró to Banksy. After months...
July 28, 2020
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who had COVID-19, said the pandemic lockdown made him feel “humiliated and offended” by depriving him of his freedom to come and go as he wanted....
July 28, 2020
The removal of a pair of concrete murals by Pablo Picasso was completed Tuesday from a government building in the Norwegian capital of Oslo whose demolition was under way. Opinions...
July 28, 2020
Prince Joachim, the younger son of Queen Margrethe of Denmark, who underwent emergency surgery for a blood clot in his brain won't suffer any long-term effects, the royal palace said...
July 28, 2020
Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard fired a missile from a helicopter targeting a replica aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, state television reported, an exercise aimed at...
July 28, 2020
NEW DELHI – An alliance of terror groups aimed at destabilizing peace in South Asia is emerging in Afghanistan as U.S. troops pull out of the war-ravaged nation, security officials...
