Remittances to Cuba, the second-largest source of revenue for the country and a lifeline for many families, could be in danger after the U.S. State Department included the Cuban company...
June 4, 2020
In an unusual virtual hearing in federal court Wednesday, three immigration detainees gave live, first-hand details of life behind bars during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Deivys Perez Valladares, a 25-year-old...
June 3, 2020
Even as Cuba's official statistics were showing a decrease in new coronavirus cases, Havana itself got another taste of how contagious the new virus really is: One woman was patient...
June 3, 2020
The Uffizi Galleries, the most-visited museum in Italy, is open after three months of COVID-19 lockdown, delighting art lovers who don't have to jostle with throngs of tourists thanks to...
June 3, 2020
Thousands of protesters gathered in London's Hyde Park on Wednesday to demonstrate against police violence and racial injustice following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which has set off...
June 3, 2020
The United Nations warned Wednesday that its programs to fight the coronavirus in war-torn Yemen might have to stop by the end the month unless they get an immediate injection...
June 3, 2020
Pro-democracy and human rights activists have scheduled alternative vigils across Hong Kong on Thursday to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, to make up for the main event, canceled for...
June 3, 2020
Tests of hydroxychloroquine on COVID-19 patients should be resumed, the leaders of a WHO-led international trial project have concluded after reviewing mortality data related to the anti-malarial drug. The tests...
June 3, 2020
German police said on Wednesday that a 43-year-old man who has been convicted of multiple sexual offences is a murder suspect in the case of Madeleine McCann, the British girl...
June 3, 2020
Pope Francis on Wednesday called all types of racism intolerable while condemning the "tragic" death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer as well as the violent...
June 3, 2020
The footage is stomach-churning: a half-dozen uniformed officers holding a man face down for several minutes as he gulps for air and screams, again and again, "I can't breathe." He...
June 3, 2020
Three days after George Floyd died with a Minneapolis police officer choking off his air, another black man writhed on the tarmac of a street in Paris as a police...
June 3, 2020
Two or three times a week, Mayada goes to visit her baby daughter at the foster home. Sometimes, she breastfeeds her if she has milk, or she just sits and...
June 3, 2020
Two or three times a week, Mayada goes to visit her baby daughter at the foster home. Sometimes, she breastfeeds her if she has milk, or she just sits and...
June 3, 2020
A storm in the Arabian Sea off India's west coast intensified into a severe cyclone on Wednesday, gathering speed as it barreled toward India's financial capital of Mumbai. Nisarga was...
June 3, 2020
Tropical Storm Cristobal formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, bringing some flooding to Mexico's southern Gulf coast and threatening more deadly inundations farther inland. Cristobal was the...
June 2, 2020
Mexican comic Héctor Suárez, whose decades-long career celebrated the common man and satirized the rich, corrupt and arrogant, has died at 81. His son Héctor Suárez Gomís posted a statement...
June 2, 2020
French authorities banned a protest Tuesday over racial injustice and heavy-handed police tactics as global outrage over what happened to George Floyd in the United States kindled frustrations across borders...
June 2, 2020
A cyclone in the Arabian Sea was barreling toward India's business capital Mumbai on Tuesday, threatening to deliver high winds and flooding to an area already struggling with the nation's...
June 2, 2020
The European Union's top diplomat said Tuesday the death of George Floyd was the result of an abuse of power and that the 27-nation bloc is “shocked and appalled” by...
June 2, 2020
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday hesitated for 20 seconds before answering a question about President Donald Trump's handling of protests gripping the United States. Trudeau's long silence came...
June 2, 2020
What was meant to be a landmark year for Japan-China relations has turned sour, as the U.S. standoff with Beijing leaves Prime Minister Shinzo Abe caught up in a fight...
June 2, 2020
Hong Kong's leader blasted the U.S. for "double standards" in the way it handles protests after the Trump administration vocally supported sometimes-violent demonstrations in the Asian financial hub. "Look at...
June 2, 2020
Global efforts to control polio and tuberculosis stand to suffer alongside the battle against the pandemic as a result of U.S. President Donald Trump's plans to withdraw from the World...
June 2, 2020
Demonstrators from Australia to Europe identified themselves with the cause of U.S. protests and urged their own governments to address racism and police violence. An indigenous Australian lawmaker called on...
June 2, 2020
An Iranian scientist imprisoned in the U.S. is on his way back to Iran after being freed, the country's foreign minister said Tuesday. Sirous Asgari was in the air on...
June 1, 2020
University of Miami professor Bruce Bagley pleaded guilty on Monday to two counts of money laundering after being charged with using bank accounts in his name and in the name...
June 1, 2020
Rains from Tropical Storm Amanda left at least 17 dead and seven missing while causing extensive damage across El Salvador and Guatemala that pushed thousands of people into shelters amid...
June 1, 2020
Standing at a lectern with a backdrop map of the world behind him reminiscent of one at the State Department, the spokesman of Iran's Foreign Ministry made a point Monday...
June 1, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin says a nationwide vote on constitutional amendments that could allow him to further extend his rule will be held on July 1. Speaking during a televised...
June 1, 2020
The villager looked at the photograph of his dead grandmother. She would not be happy. Her ancestral altar was now blocked by canned drinks and dried rice noodles, stacked in...
June 1, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is giving Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte a reason to reduce overcrowding in Manila, which in recent decades has swelled into one of the most heavily populated areas...
June 1, 2020
President Donald Trump discussed his proposal to invite Russia to an expanded meeting of the Group of Seven advanced economies during a phone call with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin,...
June 1, 2020
Several thousand people marched in New Zealand's largest city on Monday to protest the killing of George Floyd in the U.S. as well as to stand up against police violence...
May 31, 2020
Christo, known for massive, ephemeral public arts projects died Sunday at his home in New York. He was 84. His death was announced on Twitter and the artist's web page....
May 31, 2020
Israel's defense minister apologized on Sunday for the Israeli police's deadly shooting of an unarmed Palestinian man who was autistic. The shooting of Iyad Halak, 32, in Jerusalem's Old City...
May 31, 2020
Nations around the world have watched in horror at the five days of civil unrest in the United States following the death of a black man being detained by police....
May 31, 2020
Ethiopia says a recent violent incident that flared up along the border with Sudan should be addressed by diplomatic discussions. A statement by Ethiopia's foreign ministry on Sunday came after...
May 31, 2020
Pope Francis is cautioning against pessimism as many people emerge from coronavirus lockdowns to lament that nothing will ever be the same. During Mass in St. Peter's Basilica to mark...
May 31, 2020
As a veteran political cartoonist, Justin Wong is rarely at a loss for the right image. But China's move to impose new national security powers over Hong Kong reduced his...
