Pressure is mounting on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to sack his chief adviser, after reports emerged late Friday that he had breached the country's coronavirus travel restrictions. The Guardian...
May 23, 2020
A senior member of Hong Kong's delegation to Beijing dismissed speculation that new national security legislation would be used to whisk people over the border, as Chinese authorities sought to...
May 23, 2020
Brazil's coronavirus curve steepened further a day after it overtook Russia to become the country with the second-highest number of cases. The Latin American nation added 16,508 cases Saturday and...
May 23, 2020
The first of five Iranian oil tankers headed to Venezuela has arrived, Iranian officials confirmed early Sunday, amid tension over the possibility the United States could attempt to halt the...
May 23, 2020
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea is planning to increase its nuclear capabilities, state media reported Sunday. The rogue nuclear nation's ruler Kim Jong Un led a meeting of the...
May 23, 2020
Boris Johnson's chief adviser has spent a decade waging war on Britain's teaching unions. Now he needs their help. The prime minister wants England's schools to partially reopen from June...
May 23, 2020
Chinese President Xi Jinping said he won't let the world's second-largest economy return to its days as a planned economy, pushing back against U.S. criticism that the nation has failed...
May 23, 2020
As sections of the global economy tip-toe toward reopening, it's becoming clearer that a full recovery from the worst slump since the 1930s will be impossible until a vaccine or...
May 23, 2020
Pakistan officials said Saturday they retrieved the flight-data recorder of the Airbus SE A320 jet that crashed into a residential neighborhood of Karachi, killing all but two people on board....
May 23, 2020
Russia does not see any chance of a new agreement in the event of the U.S. withdrawing from the Treaty on Open Skies, which allows signatories to conduct unarmed observation...
May 23, 2020
Pressure is mounting on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to sack his chief adviser, after reports emerged late Friday that he had breached the country's coronavirus travel restrictions. The Guardian...
May 23, 2020
Violet Manuel hastily abandoned her uncle's funeral and grabbed two empty containers when she heard a boy running down the dirt road shouting, “Water, water, water!” The 72-year-old joined dozens...
May 23, 2020
David Waugh is putting down barrier tape and spraying yellow lines on the ground outside the main door of his school near Manchester. Waugh, who oversees five schools in northwestern...
May 23, 2020
Acclaimed Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, hosting a special radio show from home, painted a brighter side of the world with his favorite music, and said the fight against the coronavirus...
May 23, 2020
Staying home under lockdown as they wait for the worst of the coronavirus pandemic to pass, millions of Indians are turning to their gods. Not in prayer rooms, but on...
May 22, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is interrupting immunization against diseases including measles, polio and cholera that could put the lives of nearly 80 million children under the age of 1 at risk,...
May 22, 2020
Archaeologists have found the bones of about 60 mammoths at an airport under construction just north of Mexico City, near human-built 'traps' where more than a dozen mammoths were found...
May 22, 2020
South Africa's coronavirus lockdown has brought a unique kind of discomfort to a country where memories of physical separation are yet to fade. Stand there. Step back. Don't touch. More...
May 22, 2020
In the middle of a pandemic, if a cyclone comes hurtling toward you, what should you do? Debasis Shyamal, a fisherman, forgot about social distancing. He crammed himself into a...
May 22, 2020
A passenger plane belonging to state-run airline Pakistani International Airlines has crashed near the southern port city of Karachi, according to Abdul Sattar Kokhar, spokesman for the country's civil aviation...
May 22, 2020
The fate of billions of dollars squirreled away in the bank accounts, luxury properties and exotic cars of convicted Venezuelan officials and their business cronies has become entangled in a...
May 22, 2020
This nation is far from flattening the COVID-19 curve, but thousands of maquiladora employees are set to return to work after the government caved in to intense pressure from the...
May 22, 2020
An Airbus A320 plane with 107 passengers and crew on board crashed into a residential area of Pakistan's southern city of Karachi on Friday, the country's civil agency said, killing...
May 22, 2020
With its COVID-19 outbreak waning, nationalism rising at home and its antagonists in the Trump administration preoccupied by the pandemic and election-year politics, the Chinese Communist Party is boldly moving...
May 22, 2020
On just one day this month, 50 Tanzanian truck drivers tested positive for the coronavirus after crossing into neighboring Kenya. Back home, their president insists that Tanzania has defeated the...
May 22, 2020
Hong Kong's pro-democracy lawmakers sharply criticized China's move to take over long-stalled efforts to enact national security legislation in the semi-autonomous territory, saying it goes against the “one country, two...
May 22, 2020
Muslims worldwide will celebrate one of their biggest holidays under the long shadow of the coronavirus, with millions confined to their homes and others gripped by economic concerns during what...
May 21, 2020
Cape Town has become the center of the COVID-19 outbreak in South Africa and one of Africa's hot spots. The popular tourist destination at the southern tip of Africa had...
May 21, 2020
Hundreds of people have been killed in a new burst of intercommunal violence in South Sudan, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday, with “many more” injured and...
May 21, 2020
At least three times as many people in Mexico City may have died of complications from COVID-19 than have been officially reported, a new report by a Mexican activist group...
May 21, 2020
Plans by Beijing to impose new national security legislation in Hong Kong are likely to incite protesters at a time when China is attempting to tighten its grip and stem...
May 21, 2020
The United Nations on Thursday launched an initiative to tackle coronavirus misinformation by spreading trusted, accurate content with a network of volunteers. The initiative, dubbed "Verified," encourages people around the...
May 21, 2020
Cyclone Amphan, one of the most powerful storms to hit South Asia in recent years, has claimed at least 81 lives and caused large-scale devastation in India and Bangladesh, officials...
May 21, 2020
Thrown off course by the coronavirus pandemic, Vladimir Putin is moving to regain the political initiative for his plan to remain as Russia's president potentially until 2036. Putin may announce...
May 21, 2020
When Chinese engineers flew home in January for the Lunar New Year, few in Africa would have imagined that a coronavirus outbreak was about to ground planes, upend supply lines...
May 21, 2020
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – While the U.S. struggled to come up with enough tests to manage the world's largest coronavirus outbreak, a Chinese genetics company took less than a...
May 21, 2020
The coronavirus is killing so many people in Tijuana that the morgue has run out of refrigerator space for bodies. As of Tuesday, the Mexican border city had confirmed 392...
May 21, 2020
There are no daily public displays of gratitude for Russian doctors and nurses during the coronavirus crisis like there are in the West. Instead of applause, they face mistrust, low...
May 21, 2020
He was burly, with piercing blue eyes, and it was clear he was in charge when he entered the Galaxy, a wedding hall-turned-slave pen in the Iraqi city of Mosul....
May 21, 2020
A woman has tearfully embraced her dying sister in Australia after weeks of bureaucracy wrangling over pandemic travel restrictions. Australia had rejected Christine Archer's request for permission to fly from...
