In just three weeks, India went from the world's sixth to the third-worst hit country by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University. India's fragile health...
July 10, 2020
Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia will be opened to Muslim worshippers on July 24 for the first time in more than eight decades, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday, vowing...
July 10, 2020
It's been 25 years since the slaughter of men and boys in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica, but every year more bodies are found and reburied, and every year...
July 10, 2020
In a courtyard a few blocks from Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach, a dozen people get settled on broken couches beneath a banner reading “Cure Your Prejudice.” They face the...
July 10, 2020
Seoul's mayor left a note saying he felt “sorry to all people” before he was found dead early Friday, officials in the South Korean capital said as people began mourning...
July 10, 2020
A will left by late Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon says he feels “sorry to all people” and asks his body to be cremated. Park's body was found early Friday, hours...
July 9, 2020
The 15-member Caribbean Community is calling on embattled Guaynese President David Granger to respect a court ruling on the country's disputed March 2 presidential and regional elections that would lead...
July 9, 2020
Interim Bolivian President Jeanine Áñez says she has tested positive for the new coronavirus but feels strong and will continue working from isolation. Her infection comes amid a spike in...
July 9, 2020
The World Health Organization is acknowledging the possibility that COVID-19 might be spread in the air under certain conditions — after more than 200 scientists urged the agency to do...
July 9, 2020
Serbian authorities on Thursday banned gatherings of more than 10 people in the capital, Belgrade, after two nights of violent clashes between police and thousands of demonstrators protesting coronavirus lockdown...
July 9, 2020
An American longline fishing boat captain has been in jail for a month after he was detained in the British Virgin Islands on June 8 for traveling into BVI waters...
July 9, 2020
The mayor of South Korean capital Seoul has been reported missing and police are searching for him on Thursday. Police officers said they are looking for Mayor Park Won-soon at...
July 9, 2020
The mayor of South Korean capital Seoul has been reported missing and search operations are underway on Thursday, police said. Police officers said they are looking for Mayor Park Won-sun...
July 9, 2020
A minor nuisance that comes with U.S. sanctions is having to say goodbye to buying on Amazon. The company was fined more than $134,000 on Wednesday for selling goods and...
July 9, 2020
Streetcar equipment that's almost 100 years old. Asbestos-lined subway tunnels. Computer systems from decades ago. Before the coronavirus hit, Toronto's public transit agency needed billions of dollars to fix and...
July 9, 2020
The mayor of the South Korean capital Seoul, Park Won-soon, has been found dead after being reported missing by his family, the news agency Yonhap reported. Police suspect that he...
July 9, 2020
The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dismissed the idea of a meeting with President Donald Trump this year, but did so with a warm tone that included...
July 9, 2020
A quarter of a century after they were killed in Europe's worst massacre since World War II, eight Bosnian men and boys will be laid to rest Saturday in a...
July 9, 2020
The mob of over 150 people who forcefully took Muhammad Yunus' cadaver from a hospital in eastern Indonesia thought it was impossible that the 49-year-old Islamic preacher could have died...
July 9, 2020
After months of touting an unproven anti-malaria drug as a treatment for the new coronavirus, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is turning himself into a test case live before millions of...
July 9, 2020
After months of touting an unproven anti-malaria drug as a treatment for the new coronavirus, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is turning himself into a test case live before millions of...
July 8, 2020
More than 30,000 Cuban Americans have signed a petition requesting that President Donald Trump reverse a decree issued in June to suspend immigration from the island — including family reunifications...
July 8, 2020
The U.S. Department of Energy has determined that Cuba and Venezuela are “foreign adversaries” that might target the U.S. electrical grid, as the agency works to implement an executive order...
July 8, 2020
Lithuania's media watchdog says it has banned the broadcasts of the state-controlled Russian television channel RT, effective Thursday, following a similar decision made in Baltic neighbor Latvia last week. The...
July 8, 2020
Port Everglades is looking like an auto dealership these days, with rows of high-end vehicles on display, including a Mercedes Biturbo SUV worth a whopping $150,000, and even a few...
July 8, 2020
At least 80 new vehicles at Port Everglades have been seized by Homeland Security Investigations after a ring backed by a notorious Venezuelan billionaire tried to smuggle them into Venezuela....
July 8, 2020
At least 80 new vehicles at Port Everglades have been seized by Homeland Security Investigations after a ring backed by a notorious Venezuelan billionaire tried to smuggle them into Venezuela....
July 8, 2020
Johnny Depp faced a second day of cross-examination Wednesday by lawyers for British tabloid The Sun, which is defending a libel claim after calling the Hollywood star a “wife beater.”...
July 8, 2020
To some he is the "Cockroach King," accused of being a closet supporter of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement and a traitor to China. To others – namely the Trump administration...
July 8, 2020
JOHANNESBURG – Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, 61, has died shortly after attending a Cabinet meeting at the presidential palace in Abidjan on Wednesday afternoon, President Alassane Ouattara...
July 8, 2020
Colombia's government has rejected a cease-fire offer from the country's main guerrilla group, which argued that the truce would facilitate efforts to help victims of the coronavirus pandemic. The proposal...
July 8, 2020
Tension soared across Serbia as violent protests that began in response to the government's COVID-19 lockdown plan transformed Wednesday night into a broader fury against President Aleksandar Vucic. "We have...
July 8, 2020
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro plans to put a four-month ban on fires in the Amazon and Pantanal regions in response to criticism from international investors and Brazilian companies about a...
July 8, 2020
A statue of Melania Trump in Slovenia was torched on July 4, Reuters reported. The statue previously stood near the U.S. first lady's hometown of Sevnica. The bizarre-looking statue did...
July 8, 2020
Conservationists have captured the first images of a group of rare Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in Nigeria's Mbe mountains, proof that the subspecies once feared to be extinct...
July 8, 2020
Australia isolated the state of Victoria on Wednesday in a bid to contain the worsening spread of the coronavirus as the city of Melbourne prepared for its second lockdown, an...
July 8, 2020
By the end of May, the Palestinian Authority appeared to have quashed a coronavirus outbreak in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, with only around 400 confirmed cases and just two fatalities...
July 8, 2020
Pounding rain that already caused deadly floods in southern Japan was moving northeast Wednesday, battering large areas of Japan's main island, swelling more rivers, triggering mudslides and destroying houses and...
July 8, 2020
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he is confident that he will swiftly recover from the new coronavirus thanks to treatment with hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug that has not been proven...
July 8, 2020
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for months flirted with the new coronavirus as he flouted social distancing at lively demonstrations and encouraged crowds during outings from the presidential residence, often without...
