As daylight drained from the sky in Brazil's capital, dozens of cars formed a line, all filled with passengers set to indulge in one of the few diversions allowed in...
May 28, 2020
Miami-Dade Commissioner Esteban “Steve” Bovo has fired the fundraiser for his county mayoral campaign after the Miami Herald reported that she was paid millions from the proceeds of a massive...
May 28, 2020
China's ceremonial legislature overwhelmingly endorsed a national security law for Hong Kong on Thursday that has strained relations with the United States and Britain and triggered protests in the semi-autonomous...
May 28, 2020
SHANGHAI – The Chinese Communist Party and its leader, President Xi Jinping, emerged from their post-coronavirus political meetings this week with a clear message: Beijing's bottom line is sovereignty, at...
May 28, 2020
Chinese lawmakers approved a proposal for sweeping new national security legislation in Hong Kong, defying a threat by President Donald Trump to respond strongly to a measure that democracy advocates...
May 28, 2020
With fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections looming, some Arab Gulf nations have turned for help to an ostensible enemy and a country they don't officially recognize: Israel....
May 28, 2020
The Cuban nurse picked her way through the sprawling border camp on the banks of the Rio Grande, past tents housing a couple of thousand migrants. Mileydis Tamayo Salgado navigated...
May 28, 2020
The Cuban nurse picked her way through the sprawling border camp on the banks of the Rio Grande, past tents housing a couple of thousand migrants. Mileydis Tamayo Salgado navigated...
May 28, 2020
South Korea reported its biggest spike in new coronavirus cases in nearly two months, raising fears of a second wave of infections that challenges its highly touted testing and contact...
May 28, 2020
SHANGHAI – The Chinese Communist Party and its leader, President Xi Jinping, emerged from their post-coronavirus political meetings this week with a clear message: Beijing's bottom line is sovereignty, at...
May 28, 2020
China's ceremonial legislature on Thursday endorsed a national security law for Hong Kong that has strained relations with the United States and Britain. The National People's Congress approved the bill...
May 28, 2020
Federal prosecutors in New York accused a former Venezuelan lawmaker on Wednesday of participating in narcoterrorism, in an indictment claiming that a cartel headed by top government leaders conspired with...
May 28, 2020
Federal prosecutors in New York accused a former Venezuelan lawmaker on Wednesday of participating in narcoterrorism, in an indictment claiming that a cartel headed by top government leaders conspired with...
May 27, 2020
U.S. immigration officials admitted during a federal court hearing Wednesday that they are not conducting COVID-19 testing on every detainee who gets transferred from one detention center to another, saying...
May 27, 2020
With COVID-19 infections spiking in Haiti, where fevers are quickly spreading inside the country's overcrowded prisons, hundreds of inmates risk dying of the novel coronavirus, the government's chief ombudsman says....
May 27, 2020
The Algerian government pays Cuba $70 million a year for the services of nearly 900 doctors. Still, the island's government has not paid their salaries since March, several Cuban doctors...
May 27, 2020
Condemned as a hypocrite, former Miami Congressman David Rivera claims his $50 million consulting contract with an oil company owned by Venezuela's government wasn't meant to defend embattled President Nicolás...
May 27, 2020
Las gotas oftalmologicas y colirios se comercializan con conservantes y sin ellos. En ambos casos hay que estar atento a la fecha de caducidad, advierte la revista alemana especializada en...
May 27, 2020
Los expertos recomiendan que quien lleve una mascarilla no inhale y exhale con demasiada fuerza. "Eso puede conducir a la hiperventilacion", advierte la profesora Janne Vehreschild, del Centro Aleman de...
May 27, 2020
Las pulseras de fitness cuentan los pasos, miden el pulso y a veces registran las distancias y la altura con la ayuda de un GPS y un barometro. En general,...
May 27, 2020
Life was already hardscrabble for the seven river otters known as the Zouk family. Prime land next to Singapore's sparkling waterways brimming with fish had been seized by other clans,...
May 27, 2020
The emergency room doctor shielded his wife and son from his growing unease about a lack of safety gear at the public hospital where he regularly treated coronavirus patients. He...
May 27, 2020
En la Plaza Garibaldi de Ciudad de Mexico se acabo la fiesta. Las persianas de los bares estan bajas y los musicos de mariachi luchan por sobrevivir. Con sus vistosos...
May 27, 2020
La relajacion de las restricciones impuestas a la vida cotidiana a causa de la pandemia del nuevo coronavirus vuelve a hacer posible la practica deportiva al aire libre en muchos...
May 27, 2020
“Do as I say, but not as I do” was the message many British saw in the behavior of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's key aide, who traveled hundreds of miles...
May 27, 2020
A soccer mom in one of Cape Town's posh suburbs drops off a cardboard box of blankets to a neighbor. Inside the box are several bottles of red wine. In...
May 27, 2020
Thousands of protesters shouted pro-democracy slogans and insults at police in Hong Kong before lawmakers later Wednesday debate a bill criminalizing abuse of the Chinese national anthem in the semi-autonomous...
May 27, 2020
As in many Afghan households, dinner at Dr. Yousuf Aryubi's home meant the whole family — his mother, his siblings, their children — sitting on the floor together around a...
May 27, 2020
The baseball league is on. Students have begun returning to school. And people are increasingly dining out and enjoying nighttime strolls in public parks. As South Korea significantly relaxes its...
May 27, 2020
Stefany Hernández zips on her bike across a vast, empty boulevard in Venezuela's capital, getting in training where she can find it. A 2015 world champion bike motocross racer, she's...
May 27, 2020
Japanese police on Wednesday arrested a suspect in the deadly arson at a Kyoto anime studio last year after he recovered enough from his own severe burns to respond to...
May 26, 2020
Hong Kong's leader said Tuesday that national security legislation proposed by China's legislature will not threaten the semi-autonomous territory's civil rights, despite widespread criticism of the move as an encroachment...
May 26, 2020
Researchers recently captured audio of the various calls, buzzes, clicks and whistles of narwhals as they summered in a Greenland fjord. Audio recordings provided by Evgeny Podolskiy, geophysicist at Hokkaido...
May 26, 2020
The Afghan government released hundreds of Taliban prisoners Tuesday, its single largest prisoner release since the U.S. and the Taliban signed a peace deal earlier this year that spells out...
May 26, 2020
JK Rowling is publishing a new story called “The Ickabog,” which will be free to read online to help entertain children and families stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic....
May 26, 2020
Cuba has sent more than 2,000 health workers to other countries to treat patients with Covid-19, and the government says the island is a “medical powerhouse.” But in recent years,...
May 26, 2020
Instead of mass prayers and large family gatherings filled with colorful clothes, gifts and traditional foods, millions of Moroccan Muslims celebrated Eid Al-Fitr at home, subdued and isolated amid their...
May 26, 2020
Hong Kong police said protesters attempted to block roads and disrupt traffic early Wednesday morning, ahead of what could be the biggest day of demonstrations in months against China's moves...
May 26, 2020
TIJUANA, Mexico – Dozens of cross-border workers are sleeping on the sidewalk or inside their cars to be among the first enter the United States once the Otay Mesa Port...
May 26, 2020
President Vladimir Putin said Russia has passed the peak of the coronavirus epidemic and ordered preparations to resume for military parades marking the 75th anniversary of the World War II...
