The number of global coronavirus cases continued to surge Tuesday in many large countries that have been lifting lockdowns, including the U.S., even as new infections stabilized or dropped in...
June 23, 2020
A massive Russian military parade postponed by the coronavirus pandemic will roll through Red Square this week to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in...
June 23, 2020
Six decades after they returned to their homeland, traces of thousands of North Korean children orphaned by the Korean War linger for the elderly Europeans whose lives they briefly touched....
June 23, 2020
A South Korean activist said Tuesday hundreds of thousands of leaflets had been launched by balloon across the border with North Korea overnight, after the North repeatedly warned it would...
June 22, 2020
As Haiti enters the third week of a nationwide judges' strike, former Haitian strongman and death squad leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant is back on a scheduled deportation flight to Port-au-Prince....
June 22, 2020
Saudi Arabia said Tuesday that because of the coronavirus only “very limited numbers” of people will be allowed to perform the annual hajj pilgrimage that traditionally draws around 2 million...
June 22, 2020
Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house reopened Monday and performed its first concert since the coronavirus lockdown — to an audience that didn't have to worry about social distancing....
June 22, 2020
Eastern Caribbean nations are pushing back on Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott's attempt to punish countries that employ Cuba's medical brigade to help provide care, and to classify such nations...
June 22, 2020
Pytor Verzilov, a Russian political activist and member of the Pussy Riot protest group, has been sentenced to 15 days in jail for swearing in public. A court on Monday...
June 22, 2020
President Donald Trump confirmed Monday that he would meet with Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro, but administration officials say there's no ongoing effort to secure a meeting. “Unlike the radical left,...
June 22, 2020
The career of Viggo Mortensen, Aragorn in the popular trilogy “Lord of the Rings” and a protagonist in the Academy Award-winning “Green Book,” will be honored at this year's San...
June 22, 2020
The English town of Reading mourned Monday for three people stabbed to death in what is being treated as a terror attack, gathering for a moment of silence as police...
June 22, 2020
A Russian military court convicted two members of a left-wing youth group of terrorism Monday in a case that human rights groups called fabricated and based on coerced testimony. A...
June 22, 2020
Russian prosecutors on Monday demanded a six-year prison term for an acclaimed theater director accused of embezzling state funds, a case widely seen as politically motivated. Kirill Serebrennikov, 50, arguably...
June 22, 2020
It began with a dry cough, weakness and back pain. For Reagan Taban Augustino, part of South Sudan's small corps of health workers trained in treating COVID-19 patients, there was...
June 22, 2020
A preliminary official vote count Monday of Serbia's parliamentary election confirmed an overwhelming victory for populist President Aleksandar Vucic's right-wing governing party, the state RTS television said. Election authorities said,...
June 22, 2020
An American man was among the three victims stabbed to death in a park in the English town of Reading that is being treated as a terror attack, the U.S....
June 22, 2020
A widely condemned dog meat festival opened on Sunday despite the Chinese government's recent attempts to discourage dog consumption across the country. The annual Lychee and Dog Meat Festival in...
June 22, 2020
The U.S. has shared a draft resolution with members of the U.N. Security Council that would extend an arms embargo on Iran indefinitely, according to diplomats. With the ban on...
June 22, 2020
Just weeks ago, Tijuana had the highest number of documented coronavirus cases in all of Mexico. Now reported new cases have slowed to a trickle and the city is preparing...
June 22, 2020
Developing nations face an explosion in coronavirus infections as they exit lockdowns amid worsening outbreaks because the economic cost of remaining shuttered is too great. From Pakistan to the Philippines,...
June 22, 2020
South Korea on Monday urged North Korea to scrap a plan to launch propaganda leaflets across the border, after the North said it's ready to float 12 million leaflets in...
June 22, 2020
Eight children drowned in a river in southwestern China after one fell in and the others jumped in to help, state media said Monday. The children, described as elementary-school age,...
June 22, 2020
President Donald Trump declined in a recent interview to rule out meeting with Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, expressing openness to a presidential visit that would upend his administration's hard-line policy...
June 21, 2020
Stargazers in Africa, Asia and parts of the Middle East looked to the skies this weekend to witness a partial social eclipse. It was known as a “ring of fire”...
June 21, 2020
A Siberian town with the world's widest temperature range has recorded a new high amid a heat wave that is contributing to severe forest fires. The temperature in Verkhoyansk hit...
June 21, 2020
A stabbing rampage in Britain that killed three people as they sat in a park on a summer evening is being considered a terrorist attack, British police said Sunday as...
June 21, 2020
Police in the German city of Stuttgart said Sunday that 20 people were arrested and four police officers injured after a check for drugs sparked attacks on officers and police...
June 21, 2020
British police say they are treating a stabbing rampage in a park that killed three people as a terrorist attack. Dean Haydon, the U.K.'s coordinator of counterterrorism policing, said counterterror...
June 21, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has prevented druids, pagans and party-goers from watching the sun rise at Stonehenge to mark the summer solstice this year. The ancient stone circle in southwestern England...
June 21, 2020
British police on Sunday were seeking the motive of a 25-year-old man suspected of stabbing three people to death in a daylight attack in a park. Detectives said they were...
June 21, 2020
Spain reopened its borders to British tourists on Sunday in a bid to kickstart its economy while Brazil and South Africa struggled with rising levels of coronavirus infections. At a...
June 21, 2020
ROME – Italy reported 24 new COVID-19 deaths on Sunday, the lowest daily figure since March 2, when some 18 fatalities were recorded. The cumulative death toll from COVID-19 rose...
June 21, 2020
President Donald Trump says he's willing to meet with Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, a strongman who the U.S. accuses of being a brutal drug-trafficking dictator. After once mulling military action to...
June 21, 2020
A stabbing attack in which three people died in a park in the English town of Reading is now being investigated as an act of terrorism, U.K. police said. Eyewitnesses...
June 21, 2020
A year ago, Hong Kong protesters effectively killed an extradition bill that would subject them to criminal prosecution under China's legal system for the first time – a victory that...
June 21, 2020
TEHRAN – Iran's health minister said on Sunday that the coronavirus outbreak in the country would last until 2022, the Isna news agency reported. Health Minister Saeed Namaki said that...
June 21, 2020
After overwhelming India's megacities, the coronavirus is now moving through the country's vast hinterland. Home to nearly 70% of India's 1.3 billion population, the nation's villages have little access to...
June 21, 2020
Serbia's ruling populists are set to tighten their hold on power in a Sunday parliamentary election held amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus in the Balkan country and...
June 21, 2020
British police say three people were killed in a summer-evening stabbing attack in a park in the town of Reading, and add that it is “not currently being treated as...
