A suspect remains at large after shooting at police officers during a routine traffic stop in New Zealand on Friday morning, killing one and seriously injuring the other. The incident...
June 18, 2020
As coronavirus restrictions make it more difficult to cross the border, some San Diego-area residents say they are struggling to get the medications they normally purchase at a discount in...
June 18, 2020
As coronavirus restrictions make it more difficult to cross the border, some San Diego-area residents say they are struggling to get the medications they normally purchase at a discount in...
June 18, 2020
It was 91 degrees, and Hans Hsu, clad in shorts, sat on a bench waiting to catch the bus home, a surgical mask dangling from his arm. The face covering...
June 18, 2020
Half of the world's children – around 1 billion – are affected by physical, sexual or psychological violence every year, the United Nations said on Thursday. Those children can suffer...
June 18, 2020
When health officials in Honduras announced this week that President Juan Orlando Hernandez had been hospitalized after testing positive for the coronavirus, there were the expected outpourings of support. But...
June 18, 2020
As the number of COVID-19 cases climbed in Beijing in recent days, officials identified more than 350,000 people who needed to be tested. I was one of them. After word...
June 18, 2020
The head of the U.N. refugee agency says he is “very worried” about the impact of the coronavirus in Latin America, where millions of Venezuelans have fled upheaval at home...
June 18, 2020
India on Thursday cautioned China against making "exaggerated and untenable claims" to the Galwan Valley area even as both nations tried to end a standoff in the high Himalayan region...
June 18, 2020
South Korea said Thursday it hasn't detected any suspicious activities by North Korea, a day after it threatened with provocative acts at the border in violation of a 2018 agreement...
June 18, 2020
When her father tested positive for COVID-19, Sumona Khanom struggled to get a bed for him at an already overwhelmed Dhaka Medical College Hospital. The family struggled, too, with a...
June 18, 2020
When Rafaela Matos saw police helicopters over her favela and heard gunshots, she fell to her knees and asked God to protect her son, João Pedro. Then she called the...
June 18, 2020
India on Thursday cautioned China against making "exaggerated and untenable claims" on the sovereignty of the Galvan Valley area even as both nations tried to end a standoff in the...
June 17, 2020
The Bahamas has reversed itself on COVID-19 tests for tourists. After announcing that foreign visitors and Bahamians returning home will not need to obtain a negative COVID-19 test when the...
June 17, 2020
For seven years, a mysterious fossil resembling a deflated football collected dust in a museum in Chile, unlabeled and unstudied, puzzling geologists time and time again. The fossil, nicknamed “The...
June 17, 2020
A new book by President Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor says the president waffled on his decision to recognize Juan Guaidó as Venezuela's legitimate leader over Nicolás Maduro within...
June 17, 2020
A new bill introduced by Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott on Wednesday would target countries that hire Cuban doctors through the “medical missions” controlled by the island's government. The Cut...
June 17, 2020
Danielle Jeffries has been stranded in Dubai since May 2019 over an alleged forgery which her attorney said she did not commit. Jeffries says the inherent racism in the United...
June 17, 2020
India and China sought Wednesday to de-escalate tensions after flexing their muscles in a fatal clash along a disputed border high in the Himalayas that left 20 Indian soldiers dead....
June 17, 2020
The Honduran president became the first government head in the Americas to publicly announce he got infected with COVID-19, when he gave the Central American country the news in a...
June 17, 2020
An Arab Israeli diplomat once deployed abroad to push back against Israel's critics says he was beaten by security guards at Jerusalem's central bus station last week in what he...
June 17, 2020
They weren't just vaccine volunteers. They were "revolutionary comrades in arms," nearly 200 mostly young, brave souls putting their bodies on the line for China and for the world. "I'm...
June 17, 2020
Bars, clubs, casinos and strip clubs that reopened in Tijuana last Friday without permission will be shut down and possibly fined, Tijuana Mayor Arturo Gonzalez said Monday. The mayor stressed...
June 17, 2020
India and China on Wednesday agreed to de-escalate tensions after a dispute over the Himalayan border that led to the death of 20 Indian soldiers, the deadliest confrontation between the...
June 17, 2020
In Syria, 1,000 pounds in the national currency can get you five walnuts. A state employee's monthly salary barely buys 4 pounds of meat. Prices change every day – almost...
June 17, 2020
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his top diplomat sought to put a brave face on their failure to secure a spot on the United Nations Security Council in one of...
June 17, 2020
As NATO members kicked off two days of talks Wednesday in the shadow of U.S. plans to pull troops from Germany, sources in the alliance expressed concerns President Donald Trump...
June 17, 2020
Most of British Columbia's old-growth forests of big trees live only on maps, and what's left on the ground is fast disappearing, a team of independent scientists has found. A...
June 17, 2020
Months into Iran's fight against the coronavirus, doctors and nurses at Tehran's Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital still don a mask, a disposable hazmat suit and a double layer of latex gloves...
June 17, 2020
Months into Iran's fight against the coronavirus, doctors and nurses at Tehran's Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital still don a mask, a disposable hazmat suit and a double layer of latex gloves...
June 17, 2020
As some commentators clamored for revenge, India's government was silent Wednesday on the fallout from clashes with China's army in a disputed border area in the high Himalayas that the...
June 17, 2020
Turkey said Wednesday it has airlifted troops for a cross-border ground operation against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq. The airborne offensive in Iraq's Haftanin region, some 15 kilometers (9 miles)...
June 17, 2020
Chinese media say more than 60% of commercial flights in and out of Beijing have been canceled as the city raises alert level amid a new coronavirus outbreak. The website...
June 17, 2020
North Korea said Wednesday it will redeploy troops to now-shuttered inter-Korean cooperation sites, reinstall guard posts and resume military exercises at front-line areas, nullifying the landmark tension-reducing deals reached with...
June 16, 2020
The Trump administration announced Tuesday the nomination of Mauricio Claver-Carone, the senior director for Latin America at the National Security Council, to be the next president of the Inter-American Development...
June 16, 2020
A day after Haitian health officials declared that COVID-19 infections had peaked without sparking the alarmingly death toll some models predicted, regional health experts with the Pan American Health Organization...
June 16, 2020
Bob, a cat whose relationship with the recovering heroin addict who adopted him inspired the book and film “A Street Cat Named Bob,” has died. He was at least 14....
June 16, 2020
The European Union and some Western nations appealed Tuesday for more time to discuss a resolution drafted for the U.N.'s top human rights body that seeks international scrutiny of systemic...
June 16, 2020
One of the most mercurial, charismatic figures of Central America's revolutionary upheavals, Edén Pastora, died early Tuesday. He was 83. On Aug. 22, 1978, Pastora, better known as “Commander Zero,”...
June 16, 2020
Next year's British Academy Film Awards have been postponed by two months, organizers said Tuesday. The move follows a decision by Hollywood's film academy to shift the 2021 Oscars from...
