A draconian new national security law failed to deter thousands in Hong Kong from attending illegal protests Wednesday, the 23rd anniversary of the former British colony's return to Chinese rule....
July 1, 2020
Britain's Prince Harry praised young anti-racism activists on Wednesday, saying his generation had not "done enough to right the wrongs of the past." "Right now we're seeing situations around the...
July 1, 2020
Talks about a looming annexation of parts of the West Bank continue between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. officials, an anonymous official from the Prime Minister's Office confirmed...
July 1, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared on track on Wednesday to win a referendum that would enable him to stay in office until 2036, with 76% in favor after half of...
July 1, 2020
Up to 60 migrants may have been trapped in a boat that sank in an eastern lake last week, Turkey's interior minister said Wednesday. Turkey launched a search-and-rescue mission involving...
July 1, 2020
Harandane Toure started taking malaria pills when he first spiked a fever but as the days passed his illness only worsened. Doctors ultimately told him he was among the hundreds...
July 1, 2020
Monique Bitu Bingi was only 4 years old when she was taken from her family in Belgian Congo and locked up in a religious mission run by Catholic nuns. Her...
June 30, 2020
The Guatemalan government has placed a cap on the number of people the U.S. can deport on a weekly basis, a spokesperson for the Central Aermican country's government told the...
June 30, 2020
Scholars in the work of surrealist Frida Kahlo have searched for more than six decades for “The Wounded Table,” a 1940 oil painting illuminating her pain over the breakup of...
June 30, 2020
Whale sharks — which grow to an enormous 40 feet — have teeth on their eyeballs, according to a new study titled “Armored eyes of the whale shark.” They also...
June 30, 2020
The island nation of Antigua and Barbuda was barely three weeks into its early June tourism reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic when 39 visitors tested positive for COVID-19 upon arrival...
June 30, 2020
The European Union announced Tuesday that it will reopen its borders to travelers from 14 countries, but most Americans have been refused entry for at least another two weeks due...
June 30, 2020
Stores closed their doors Tuesday and schools prepared to send children home in the English city of Leicester, where the British government has imposed a local lockdown to contain a...
June 30, 2020
For the first time in Belgium's history, a reigning king expressed regret Tuesday for the violence carried out by the former colonial power when it ruled over what is now...
June 30, 2020
European Union governments extended a travel ban for U.S. residents, deeming the American response to the coronavirus pandemic insufficient to allow its citizens to enter the bloc for non-essential reasons....
June 30, 2020
U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo urged the United Nations Security Council to work together to extend an expiring arms embargo on Iran, warning Tehran would quickly become a greater...
June 30, 2020
Julian Assange was drawing up an enemies list. It was November 2010, and WikiLeaks, the controversial organization and website that Assange founded, had in the previous months exploded onto the...
June 30, 2020
Two California women are being investigated for alleged ties to organized crime after being arrested Saturday traveling southbound into Tijuana from San Ysidro with approximately $2.5 million in cash, Mexican...
June 30, 2020
One year ago, protesters commemorated the anniversary of Britain's handover of Hong Kong to China by storming the city's legislature and spray-painting on its walls: "Hong Kong is not China."...
June 30, 2020
The United States government has invited Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his delegation to Washington on July 8-9, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard confirmed on Tuesday. "I can confirm...
June 30, 2020
The European Union is set to make public Tuesday a list of countries whose citizens will be allowed to enter 31 European countries, but most Americans are likely to be...
June 30, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears determined to carry out his pledge to begin annexing parts of the occupied West Bank, possibly as soon as Wednesday. His vision of redrawing...
June 30, 2020
Still no word on pigs flying, but a new study now details how snakes can glide through the air. The journal Nature Physics published the article “Undulation enables gliding in...
June 29, 2020
A U.K. High Court judge ruled Monday that actor Johnny Depp violated a court order by failing to disclose evidence relating to his drug use to lawyers for British tabloid...
June 29, 2020
Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining President Donald Trump and dozens of others it believes carried out the U.S. drone strike that killed...
June 29, 2020
A Paris court has found French former prime minister Francois Fillon guilty of having used public funds to pay his wife and children for work they never performed. His wife,...
June 29, 2020
A British judge said Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange must attend his next court hearing unless he can provide medical evidence to support his absence. Lawyers for Assange said...
June 29, 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledged Monday that the coronavirus pandemic has been a “disaster” for Britain, as he announced a spending splurge designed to get the country — and his...
June 29, 2020
When Issa Nasser was born late last year in a village in northern Yemen, his weight was about 3 kilograms, or 6.6 pounds. Now, the 7-month-old infant weighs nearly the...
June 29, 2020
Miriam Moreno Santiago was picking up her mother's luggage in Orlando, Florida, when she was told she wouldn't be able to see her. They would be taking her directly from...
June 29, 2020
A Nigerian commission has called for the cancellation of an auction Monday of sacred Nigerian statues in Paris, which it alleges were stolen. Christie's auction house has defended the sale,...
June 29, 2020
After two decades in power, Vladimir Putin's approval ratings are at an all-time low as Russia's economy reels under the impact of the coronavirus epidemic and the slump in oil...
June 29, 2020
Iran has issued a warrant to arrest U.S. President Donald Trump and 35 others for the killing of a top Iranian general in January, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported....
June 29, 2020
Lacking health measures and political unity have allowed COVID-19 to spiral to 10 million cases and half a million deaths, United Nations health chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday,...
June 29, 2020
China's top legislative body is poised to approve new national security legislation for Hong Kong – a sweeping attempt to quell dissent that risks U.S. retaliation and the city's appeal...
June 29, 2020
Bangladeshi divers have rescued a man 13 hours after he was trapped inside a passenger ferry that capsized on a river near the capital Dhaka, officials said late Monday. The...
June 29, 2020
As if one pandemic wasn't enough, Chinese scientists are now raising alarms about a newly discovered flu virus that has the potential to trigger a global outbreak. The virus is...
June 29, 2020
As if one pandemic wasn't enough, Chinese scientists are now raising alarms about a newly discovered flu virus that has the potential to trigger a global outbreak. The virus is...
June 29, 2020
For months, experts have warned of a potential nightmare scenario: After overwhelming health systems in some of the world's wealthiest regions, the coronavirus gains a foothold in poor or war-torn...
June 29, 2020
Pakistani police say an unknown number of gunmen have attacked the Pakistan Stock Exchange in the southern port city of Karachi, the country's financial center. Rizwan Ahmend, a police official...
