The killing of 26 people in an unregistered drug rehabilitation center in central Mexico is the deadliest such attack in a decade and has led to calls for change in...
July 2, 2020
Carcasses of more than 350 African elephants have been found in Botswana in recent months, but no cause of death has been determined, BBC News reports. “It's appalling — we...
July 2, 2020
Moscow and Washington are intertwined in a complex and bloody history in Afghanistan, with both suffering thousands of dead and wounded in conflicts lasting for years. Now both superpowers are...
July 2, 2020
A Miami federal judge has set a trial date in January for a case involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and immigrants held at three South Florida detention centers amid...
July 2, 2020
The world's mountain of discarded flat-screen TVs, cellphones and other electronic goods grew to a record high last year, according to an annual report released Thursday. The U.N.-backed study estimated...
July 2, 2020
An accident requiring two screws in his ankle nearly prevented Scott Eastwood from portraying a real life soldier in Afghanistan in “The Outpost” — a role that required a level...
July 2, 2020
Rights activists on Thursday accused Danish officials of being unable to recognize racism after authorities said the killing of a biracial man by two white men was not racially motivated....
July 2, 2020
A fire broke out early Thursday at a building above Iran's underground Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, though officials said it did not affect its centrifuge operation or cause any release...
July 2, 2020
A funeral is to be held next week for the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the older brother of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, who died Wednesday at the age of 96. The...
July 2, 2020
A British judge on Thursday rejected an attempt by tabloid newspaper The Sun to quash a libel suit from actor Johnny Depp over an article claiming he abused his ex-wife....
July 2, 2020
A British judge on Thursday refused to give Venezuela control of over $1 billion in gold sitting in a Bank of England vault, ruling that it is unlawful to give...
July 2, 2020
A photo of a toddler sitting on the chest of of his dead grandfather has outraged residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir after the victim's family accused government forces of shooting the...
July 2, 2020
Twitter user Mariam Gómez claims to be “faithful to the homeland and the Cuban Revolution” on her account @mpgcibermambisa. But her profile picture, a woman showing her bare back, comes...
July 2, 2020
Turkey's highest administrative court on Thursday began considering a request to turn Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia, which now serves as a museum, back into a mosque. The 6th-century structure was...
July 2, 2020
The mystery of unexplained elephant deaths in northwest Botswana deepened, with a study of the carcasses of hundreds of the animals indicating a rapid demise. Since early May, 356 elephants...
July 2, 2020
At least 80 students living in a dozen fraternity houses just north of the University of Washington campus have reported testing positive for COVID-19, the coronavirus disease, with hundreds of...
July 2, 2020
Drug rehabilitation centers have been frequent targets of attack in Mexico's bloody gang wars. But the massacre Wednesday at a facility in the city of Irapuato still managed to shock...
July 2, 2020
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in about a month to chastise some top cadres over their management of the coronavirus, amid speculation he may...
July 2, 2020
Prominent activist Nathan Law has left his native Hong Kong in a bid to avoid persecution under a sweeping national security law that Beijing imposed on the territory earlier this...
July 2, 2020
A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar has killed at least 126 people, emergency services said, the worst accident in years to hit an area notorious for unsafe...
July 2, 2020
Almost 78% of voters in Russia have approved amendments to the country's constitution that will allow President Vladimir Putin to stay in power until 2036, Russian election officials said Thursday...
July 2, 2020
It's been more than 60 years. But the scene is seared still into Kawthar Ali's mind. The women pinned her down on a bed. She was maybe 5 1/2 or...
July 2, 2020
Vitoria Gabrielle crawled all the time and was starting to walk this year with a little help, hanging on to her 4-year-old brother's arm while exploring her mother's small apartment...
July 2, 2020
Gunmen burst into an unregistered drug rehabilitation center in central Mexico and opened fire Wednesday, killing 24 people and wounding seven, authorities said. Police in the north-central state of Guanajuato...
July 2, 2020
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has granted executive clemency to 415 prisoners, including at least 15 hardened criminals whom human rights advocates say should not be walking free. The list of...
July 1, 2020
Prince Harry stressed the need to tackle institutional racism during a speech he recorded for Wednesday's ceremony for the Diana Awards, a charity for young people set up to honor...
July 1, 2020
Catherine Deneuve plays an icon of French cinema in “The Truth.” She even chose her own middle name, Fabienne, for her character who says things like, “I'd rather have been...
July 1, 2020
Cuban activists and independent journalists are accusing the government of carrying out dozens of arbitrary arrests and home detentions to block protests against police brutality sparked by the death of...
July 1, 2020
The Cuban government opened the island's northern and southern cays to tourism Wednesday amid strong measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic, which forced the country to shut down travel in...
July 1, 2020
From Tokyo to Brussels, political leaders have swiftly decried Beijing's move to impose a tough national security law on Hong Kong that cracks down on subversive activity and protest in...
July 1, 2020
For six years, French-born Delphine Halgand-Mishra worked hard to help American journalists who were detained abroad. She won the James W Foley American Hostage Freedom Award in 2017 for her...
July 1, 2020
Health experts on Wednesday slammed the U.S. decision to hog nearly the entire global supply of remdesivir, the only drug licensed so far to treat COVID-19, warning that type of...
July 1, 2020
As evening fell over Puerto Rico, hundreds gathered at a vigil for George Floyd on June 1st in Loíza, a coastal town home to one of the island's largest Black...
July 1, 2020
The Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the older brother of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, who earned renown in his own right as a director of an acclaimed German boys' choir, has died...
July 1, 2020
Britain's foreign secretary has told reporters that China's new national security law for Hong Kong “is a clear and serious violation” of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the agreement that paved...
July 1, 2020
The U.N.'s cultural agency UNESCO has warned that its name and logo are being illegally emblazoned on false documents to facilitate illicit trafficking in African cultural property. The Paris-based agency...
July 1, 2020
Chinese officials have described Hong Kong's new national security law as "tailor-made" for the former British colony. Lawyers in the city, however, say the statute may be open to abuse...
July 1, 2020
The boys struck out from their village in Pakistan's rugged tribal belt and came to this frontier city to work at Maula Khan's drink stand, a wooden cart shaded by...
July 1, 2020
Heavily armed gunman attacked a drug rehabilitation center in central Mexico on Wednesday, killing 24 people in what appeared to be a revenge hit amid a feud between gangs. Police...
July 1, 2020
As nations around the world try to get their economies humming again, the number of coronavirus tests coming back positive has turned into the metric to watch. Five% is the...
