Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday showed up at a ceremony marking the national holiday — the first big public event he has attended since announcing a nationwide lockdown more...
June 12, 2020
Britain's Prince Charles will host French President Emmanuel Macron for a special celebration marking the 80th anniversary of Gen. Charles de Gaulle's defiant appeal to the French people to resist...
June 12, 2020
One of the most memorable episodes of one of the most popular British sitcoms of all-time has been withdrawn from a U.K. streaming service because of numerous racial slurs. UKTV,...
June 12, 2020
About 80% of the facilities needed for next year's postponed Tokyo Olympics have been lined up, the president of the organizing committee said Friday. Two of the largest venues have...
June 12, 2020
The Bahamas' former health minister says the country so badly botched its record-keeping on Hurricane Dorian's missing victims that today it cannot say with certainty how many people actually died...
June 12, 2020
The Bahamas' former health minister says the country so badly botched its record-keeping on Hurricane Dorian's missing victims that today it cannot say with certainty how many people actually died...
June 12, 2020
The deportation of notorious Haitian death squad leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant from the United States back to Haiti is a question of when, not if. The Department of Homeland Security,...
June 12, 2020
The deportation of notorious Haitian death squad leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant from the United States back to Haiti is a question of when, not if. The Department of Homeland Security,...
June 12, 2020
India's coronavirus infections have surged to overtake the number of recorded cases in the U.K., making it the world's fourth-worst affected nation. India recorded 297,535 infections by Friday, compared to...
June 12, 2020
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday encouraged Mexicans to gradually start going out again despite a growing coronavirus caseload and health authorities advising people to stay at home....
June 12, 2020
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service warned that the arrest of Huawei Technologies Co.'s chief financial officer in Vancouver on a U.S. extradition request would have global political ramifications, according to...
June 12, 2020
It had been more than a decade since Choi Kun last set foot in a nightclub. There are things you don't do as a married man with children, the 42-year-old...
June 12, 2020
Inside Boris Johnson's government, senior officials are exhausted, demoralized and starting to despair. Their dreams of reshaping Britain for a bright post-Brexit world have been blown off course by coronavirus....
June 12, 2020
Queen Victoria, Cecil Rhodes, King Leopold. Statues honoring these leaders of colonial rule have been pulled down over the years in Africa after countries won independence or newer generations said...
June 12, 2020
When Raj Singh's 70-year-old mother died from the coronavirus in India's capital, he took comfort in the prospect of a proper cremation, the funeral rite that Hindus believe releases the...
June 12, 2020
A couple pushing their 6-month-old twins in a stroller. A family with their life's belongings stuffed into one large cloth sack. Young boys and girls sleeping beneath makeshift tents, their...
June 12, 2020
Protesters in Hong Kong got its government to withdraw extradition legislation last year, but now they're getting a more dreaded national security law. And the message from Beijing is: Protest...
June 12, 2020
The Cuban government said Thursday that it has the coronavirus outbreak under control and announced a three-phase plan to gradually “reopen” the country, although airports will remain closed at least...
June 11, 2020
A prehistoric seashell weighing 211 pounds has been found among shards of rock that fell from a cliff on the Isle of Wight, according to a marine biologist working on...
June 11, 2020
Alex Downes had started a petition in Barbados demanding the removal of colonies era statue honoring British hero, Horatio Nelson. The push is among several gaining traction in the Caribbean...
June 11, 2020
Italian authorities on Thursday unveiled a stolen artwork by British artist Banksy that was painted as a tribute to the victims of the 2015 terror attacks at the Bataclan music...
June 11, 2020
Queen Elizabeth II has taken part in her first public video conference call to chat to four carers about the challenges they face looking after people close to them during...
June 11, 2020
Italian authorities on Thursday unveiled a stolen artwork by the British artist Banksy that was painted as a tribute to the victims of the 2015 terror attacks at the Bataclan...
June 11, 2020
The demands for racial justice reverberating across the United States after the police killing of George Floyd has reached the sweltering shores of the Caribbean, and is fueling new life...
June 11, 2020
A white nationalist Norwegian man who killed his stepsister and then stormed an Oslo mosque and opened fire, hitting no one, was found guilty Thursday and sentenced to 21 years...
June 11, 2020
The United States will continue reducing the number of troops stationed in Iraq over the next few months, both countries said in a statement on Thursday. The future of the...
June 11, 2020
The United States will continue reducing the number of troops stationed in Iraq over the next few months, both countries said in a statement on Thursday. The future of the...
June 11, 2020
For the first time since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept to power six years ago, signs are emerging that his seemingly unshakable hold over legions of migrant workers may...
June 11, 2020
The chroniclers of history's great plagues – physicians and novelists, diarists and archivists – tend to recount uncannily similar moments, always poignant in retrospect, when people allow themselves to believe...
June 11, 2020
North Korea accused the U.S. of breaking promises it made at a historic summit two years ago, saying the Trump administration had turned dreams for peace into "a dark nightmare"...
June 11, 2020
North Korea accused the U.S. of breaking promises it made at a historic summit two years ago, saying the Trump administration had turned dreams for peace into "a dark nightmare"...
June 11, 2020
The vehement denial by French President Emmanuel Macron's office of a report that he may resign to trigger an early election has done little to quell that rumor. The reason:...
June 11, 2020
The vehement denial by French President Emmanuel Macron's office of a report that he may resign to trigger an early election has done little to quell that rumor. The reason:...
June 11, 2020
In New Delhi, a sprawling capital region of 46 million and home to some of India's highest concentration of hospitals, a pregnant woman's death after a frantic hunt for a...
June 11, 2020
Collins Khosa was killed by law enforcement officers in a poor township in Johannesburg over a cup of beer left in his yard. The 40-year-old black man was choked, slammed...
June 11, 2020
Collins Khosa was killed by law enforcement officers in a poor township in Johannesburg over a cup of beer left in his yard. The 40-year-old black man was choked, slammed...
June 11, 2020
When it comes to ruthless colonialism and racism, few historical figures are more notorious than Leopold II, the king of the Belgians who held Congo as his personal property and...
June 11, 2020
When it comes to ruthless colonialism and racism, few historical figures are more notorious than Leopold II, the king of the Belgians who held Congo as his personal property and...
June 11, 2020
Iraqi militia factions expected the usual cash handout when the new head of Iran's expeditionary Quds Force made his first visit to Baghdad earlier this year, succeeding the slain Gen....
June 11, 2020
A year has passed since the beginning of anti-government protests in Hong Kong that brought hundreds of thousands of people into the streets of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory. While the...
