Killings of land and environmental activists are on the rise, according to the nongovernmental organization Global Witness, which recorded 212 such murders in 2019, the most lethal year so far....
July 28, 2020
The owners of Australia's largest amusement park, Dreamworld, told a Queensland court the company would plead guilty to three charges of negligence over a 2016 accident that killed four people,...
July 28, 2020
Australia's most-populous city has been declared a coronavirus hot spot, with Queensland state announcing it will close its borders to all visitors from Sydney on Saturday. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's decision...
July 28, 2020
When Cape Town emerged as Africa's first coronavirus hot spot, Dr. Abu Mowlana was surprised by the fear that broke out among his colleagues. Morale was crashing among doctors and...
July 28, 2020
Vietnam on Tuesday locked down its third-largest city for two weeks after 15 cases of COVID-19 were found in a hospital, the government said. Public transport into and out of...
July 27, 2020
Images of some protesters displaying an obscene gesture during a rally outside the beloved Ermita de la Caridad church in Coconut Grove over the weekend sparked heated debate across social...
July 27, 2020
Best-selling British novelist Hilary Mantel and American author Anne Tyler are among 13 writers on a U.S.-dominated list of contenders for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction. Mantel was named...
July 27, 2020
The lean season is coming for Burkina Faso's children. And this time, the long wait for the harvest is bringing a hunger more ferocious than most have ever known. That...
July 27, 2020
When the novel coronavirus closed Guatemala's schools in mid-March, teacher Gerardo Ixcoy invested his savings in a secondhand, adult tricycle. But this is not just transportation. It's also a mobile...
July 27, 2020
Cheering protesters tugging on ropes tore down a statue of Napoleon's wife on the Caribbean island of Martinique and another from the French territory's colonial history, adding to a growing...
July 27, 2020
A point of pride for Greece was touched by controversy Monday, as the country's prime minister was criticized by an opposition party for using a military helicopter during a trip...
July 27, 2020
The famed La Scala opera house on Monday announced a fall program of concerts and ballets aimed as a signal of confidence that European cultural life can resume in full...
July 27, 2020
A night that started with a reported shooting and a bag containing loaded rifle magazines and Molotov cocktails amid a peaceful protest — morphed into an intense early morning confrontation...
July 27, 2020
Lawyers began their closing arguments Monday at Johnny Depp's libel case against a British tabloid that accused him of abusing ex-wife Amber Heard — a high-stakes celebrity trial in which...
July 27, 2020
Prince Joachim, the youngest son of Queen Margrethe of Denmark, has undergone emergency surgery for a blood clot in his brain, the royal palace said. The 51-year-old prince, who had...
July 27, 2020
Muslim pilgrims have started arriving in Mecca for a drastically scaled-down hajj as Saudi authorities balance the kingdom's oversight of one of Islam's key pillars and the safety of visitors...
July 27, 2020
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday warned Lebanon and the armed group Hezbollah that any attack on Israel would be met by a tough response, hours after Israel said it...
July 27, 2020
China reported 68 new cases of the new coronavirus Monday, of which 64 were domestically transmitted, health authorities said. Far-western Xinjiang, the scene of a recent resurgence by the virus,...
July 27, 2020
China reported 68 new cases of the new coronavirus Monday, of which 64 were domestically transmitted, health authorities said. Far-western Xinjiang, the scene of a recent resurgence by the virus,...
July 27, 2020
Police in Portland, Oregon, arrested one person after reports that a shot was fired Sunday night near where thousands of people have turned out nightly for protests in the city...
July 27, 2020
The U.S. says it has closed its consulate in Chengdu, China. China ordered the consulate closed in retaliation for a U.S. order to shut down the Chinese Consulate in Houston...
July 27, 2020
The American flag has been taken down at a U.S. consulate in southwestern China, according to state media, as officials vacate the premises under order of the Chinese government. State...
July 27, 2020
Moving trucks and vehicles with diplomatic plates pulled out of a U.S. Consulate in southwest China on Sunday, as its impending closure over rising bilateral tensions drew a steady stream...
July 26, 2020
Olivia de Havilland, the doe-eyed actress beloved to millions as the sainted Melanie Wilkes of “Gone With the Wind,” but also a two-time Oscar winner and an off-screen fighter who...
July 26, 2020
Olivia de Havilland, the doe-eyed actress beloved to millions as the sainted Melanie Wilkes of “Gone With the Wind,” but also a two-time Oscar winner and an off-screen fighter who...
July 26, 2020
Prince William infuriated Prince Harry when he told his younger brother he should move slowly in his relationship with the former Meghan Markle, fearing that he was being “blindsided by...
July 26, 2020
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un placed the city of Kaesong near the border with South Korea under total lockdown after a person was found there with suspected COVID-19 symptoms,...
July 26, 2020
Stranded on a tiny Italian island, a cancer researcher grew increasingly alarmed to hear that one, and then three more visitors had fallen ill with COVID-19. Paola Muti braced for...
July 26, 2020
Mexico is raising its estimate for the death toll for about two-thirds of the country by 55% between mid-March and late June following the coronavirus outbreak, according to health officials....
July 26, 2020
At the start of the coronavirus outbreak, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said the disease would "die a natural death." Five months later, the pandemic is raging, the economy is facing...
July 26, 2020
At the start of the coronavirus outbreak, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said the disease would "die a natural death." Five months later, the pandemic is raging, the economy is facing...
July 26, 2020
The U.S. lowered its flag over the American consulate in the Chinese city of Chengdu, the latest historic milestone marking the deterioration in relations between Washington and Beijing. American diplomats...
July 25, 2020
Queen Elizabeth II has joined in the virtual unveiling of a new portrait commissioned by Britain's Foreign Office to honor her services to diplomacy. The portrait of the monarch by...
July 25, 2020
London's police are investigating after a stream of anti-Semitic comments were posted on British grime artist Wiley's social media accouns. Twitter banned the rapper for seven days after rants on...
July 25, 2020
Peter Green, the dexterous blues guitarist who led the first incarnation of Fleetwood Mac in a career shortened by psychedelic drugs and mental illness, has died. He was 73. The...
July 25, 2020
Tens of thousands of people marched Saturday across Russia's Far East city of Khabarovsk on the border with China to protest the arrest of the regional governor on murder charges,...
July 25, 2020
Azimzhan Askarov, a human rights defender in Kyrgyzstan who was serving a life term on charges of involvement in ethnic violence that were widely criticized as trumped-up, has died in...
July 25, 2020
Freedom for Prince Harry came with a price. A new book on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex lays bare the turmoil in the House of Windsor before the pair...
July 25, 2020
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Saturday that he has tested negative for the new coronavirus, based on a fourth test since he said July 7 that he had the virus....
July 25, 2020
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Saturday that he has tested negative for the new coronavirus, based on a fourth test since he said July 7 that he had the virus....
