David Rivera last held elected office in 2013, but the former congressman's business dealings continue to haunt Miami Republicans. Miami Democrats on Friday called for a congressional investigation into Rivera's...
May 15, 2020
A woman has been waking up early three days in a row to keep her position in the line to buy chicken at a store in La Timba, a run-down...
May 15, 2020
For those of us from a region where outbursts of violence are an occupational hazard, coping with coronavirus seemed simple enough: Stay at home and you'll be fine. For the...
May 15, 2020
Malaysian prosecutors have dropped money laundering charges against “The Wolf of Wall Street” film producer and stepson of ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak in a move slammed by Human Rights Watch...
May 15, 2020
Almost two months after the Tokyo Olympics were postponed, organizing committee CEO Toshiro Muto said Friday he still could not give an estimate of how much the one-year delay will...
May 15, 2020
Austria's culture minister resigned on Friday amid mounting criticism and disappointment with her performance in the coronavirus crisis. Ulrike Lunacek, a member of the Green party — the junior member...
May 15, 2020
He knows, like the best of charlatans who use pain and loss for political gain, how to play the game of conning Cuban and Venezuelan exiles. Mirror, mirror on the...
May 15, 2020
With the Nazis murdering Jews and ransacking their property outside on the infamous nights of Kristallnacht in 1938, 13-year-old David Toren sat in the sunroom of his wealthy great-uncle in...
May 15, 2020
Australian governments have long sought to benefit from both a strong alliance with the U.S. and a deep trading relationship with China. As Washington and Beijing edge from competition toward...
May 15, 2020
Brazil lost its second health minister in a month as President Jair Bolsonaro's insistence on reopening the economy and the use of certain controversial treatments clashes with scientific recommendations and...
May 15, 2020
LONDON – British historian Frank Carlyle has made a life's work of trying to make sense of the past. But now it's the present that's confounding him. The retired academic...
May 15, 2020
British medical journal The Lancet on Friday called for American voters to elect a president who will stop using "partisan politics" to guide public health. In a blistering and unusual...
May 15, 2020
The United Arab Emirates has been involved in operating a covert air-bridge to supply weapons to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar in contravention of a United Nations arms embargo on the...
May 15, 2020
The Italian government on Friday night approved a decree which will allow free travel within Italy and from other European Union countries beginning June 3. The Italian cabinet approved a...
May 15, 2020
Years of conflict, instability and poverty have left Somalia ill-equipped to handle a health crisis like the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, no one really knows how many cases of COVID-19...
May 15, 2020
The first coronavirus case has been confirmed in the crowded camps for Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh, where more than 1 million refugees are sheltered. The person from the Rohingya...
May 15, 2020
The phone rings and the voice on the other side gets straight to the point: "Fancy a pint?" The response, equally pointed: "God, yeah." That brief conversation, or some minor...
May 15, 2020
Over its many years, the Eurovision Song Contest has come to be a sign of the times. So it is perhaps fitting that, in coronavirus times, nothing will be happening...
May 15, 2020
President Donald Trump is never far from a public spat with his government's top expert on the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the most recent flare-up occurring this week over the...
May 15, 2020
Dr. Marwa al-Khafaji's homecoming after 20 days in a hospital isolation ward was met by spite. Someone had barricaded her family home's gate with a concrete block. The message from...
May 15, 2020
More than 150,000 people were riding out a weakening typhoon in emergency shelters in the Philippines on Friday after a mass evacuation that was complicated and slowed by the coronavirus....
May 14, 2020
When news broke of former Congressman David Rivera's $50 million contract with an oil company owned by Venezuela's socialist government, heads turned not only because the Miami Republican has a...
May 14, 2020
Two U.S. lawmakers are asking the Department of Homeland Security to keep Haitian death squad leader Emmanuel “Toto” Constant detained until the Haitian government provides a plan to ensure the...
May 14, 2020
Widespread shortages of food, toiletries, and other items in Cuba are a warning sign of an impending economic collapse that has been catalyzed by the coronavirus pandemic. … Click to...
May 14, 2020
In a special section of Istanbul's Baklaci cemetery set aside for COVID-19 victims, a gaggle of workers well outnumbered the three mourners — the maximum number of relatives allowed to...
May 14, 2020
The Calgary Zoo will be returning two giant pandas on loan from China because a scarcity of flights due to COVID-19 has caused problems with getting enough bamboo to feed...
May 14, 2020
The Calgary Zoo will be returning two giant pandas on loan from China because a scarcity of flights due to COVID-19 has caused problems with getting enough bamboo to feed...
May 14, 2020
Matt Damon has described living in Ireland during the country's coronavirus lockdown as like being in a “fairy tale” during a surprise radio interview. The Hollywood star and his family...
May 14, 2020
Some of Haiti's best musicians are coming together for a good cause; that is via a computer screen near you. With Miami's Haitian Compas Festival canceled and the COVID-19 global...
May 14, 2020
Stroll along Sabra Street and you enter a time before COVID-19 and quarantines. The open-air market running its half-mile length is a scrum of hollering merchants, dilapidated cars and scooters...
May 14, 2020
Taliban militants claimed responsibility Thursday for a truck bombing in Afghanistan's southeastern province of Paktia, which left five dead, according to the Afghan Defense Ministry. At least 20 other people...
May 14, 2020
Leaves crunch underfoot as Spot marches through the park, back straight as a tabletop, stride brisk as a soldier's. A grassy field encircled by trees beckons. But Spot is focused...
May 14, 2020
The excitement has been a lot to bear, but so has the sadness. In the Netherlands, fans of the Ouwehands Zoo in the city of Rhenen – as well as...
May 14, 2020
In a last-minute move, the long-awaited swearing-in of Israel's new government has been postponed until Sunday, as caretaker Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he needed more time to distribute portfolios...
May 14, 2020
Something he saw as he drove to work one morning gave Tristan Van den Bosch an uplifting idea. “I saw a man shouting at his mother,” said Van den Bosch....
May 14, 2020
Anyone who suffered through France's two-month lockdown with a toothache or other oral affliction of a non-emergency nature has a hope of licking the pain. Dental practices around the country...
May 14, 2020
A strong typhoon roared toward the eastern Philippines on Thursday as authorities work to evacuate tens of thousands of people while avoiding overcrowding in shelters that could spread the coronavirus....
May 13, 2020
The discovery of oil off its Atlantic coast is poised to transform a largely underdeveloped Guyana from one of South America's most polarized and poorest nations into possibly one of...
May 13, 2020
The Donald Trump administration has included Cuba on its list of countries that do not cooperate with the United States in the fight against terrorism, and accused the island's government...
May 13, 2020
Two former romantic partners of actor Johnny Depp came to his defense Wednesday in his libel suit against British newspaper The Sun, dismissing claims that he was violent or abusive....
