When it arrived in the unforgiving industrial towns of central Mexico, the sand-swept sprawl of northern Nigeria and the mazes of metal shanties in India's commercial capital, Mumbai, COVID-19 went...
May 11, 2020
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro criticized lockdown measures by governors even as the nation turned into a global epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. The Health Ministry on Sunday reported 162,699 total...
May 11, 2020
Nineteen people were killed and 15 injured in a "misguided missile attack" on an Iranian support ship as the country's navy carried out drills in the Gulf of Oman, the...
May 11, 2020
Paris's train stations welcomed returning commuters, the Swiss rushed out to stock up on coffee and Spaniards could return to outdoor cafes, as Europe ventures its biggest step yet to...
May 11, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that a nationwide instruction to stay at home rather than go to work would cease to apply the following day, despite the country's...
May 11, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that a nationwide instruction to stay at home rather than go to work would cease to apply the following day, despite the country's...
May 11, 2020
Arnold Schwarzenegger flexing for onlookers on the beach. Alfred Hitchcock riding his bike on the docks. John Lennon and Yoko Ono strolling along the Croisette. A beaming Sidney Poitier arriving...
May 11, 2020
An Iranian missile fired during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman struck a support vessel near its target, killing at least one sailor and wounding 15 others, Iranian...
May 11, 2020
These are lonely times for thousands of souvenirs in dozens of Tokyo 2020 Olympic stores, which are drawing few customers with the postponed games more than a year away and...
May 11, 2020
A Haiti presidential panel charged with advising the government on how to manage the coronavirus pandemic is calling for the suspension of U.S. deportations of Haitian nationals until the deadly...
May 10, 2020
Every couple of years, they try to take his land. This time, it turned bloody and the perpetrators were heavily armed off-duty Haitian National Police officers and a justice of...
May 10, 2020
Syrian and allied Russian troops have been targeting schools and hospitals in air and ground attacks in Syria, according to Amnesty International. Between May 2019 and February 2020, both forces...
May 10, 2020
For the first time in more than a month, a person in Wuhan, China, where the global pandemic is believed to have originated, has tested positive for coronavirus. Local health...
May 10, 2020
Hundreds of riot police descended on protests in Hong Kong shopping centers on Sunday as hundreds of demonstrators voiced their anger with the authorities they say are abusing social distancing...
May 10, 2020
Boris Johnson announced the "first careful steps" to lift the U.K.'s lockdown and restart the economy, setting out a "conditional plan" for getting more people back to work while controlling...
May 10, 2020
The best minds in virology are trying to unravel a mystery: How did a lethal coronavirus jump from the wilds of rural China to major human population centers? And what...
May 10, 2020
For Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, it's the propaganda gift that keeps on giving, buoying a leader long in Washington's crosshairs. For Juan Guaido, it's just the latest misstep, reviving questions...
May 10, 2020
They prepared for icy cold and trained to be on the watch for polar bears, but a pandemic just wasn't part of the program. Now dozens of scientists are waiting...
May 10, 2020
Both China and South Korea reported new spikes in coronavirus cases on Sunday, setting off fresh concerns in countries where local outbreaks had been in dramatic decline. Former President Barack...
May 10, 2020
After fleeing Venezuela along with millions of others amid the country's grueling humanitarian crisis, Misael Cocho made his way by bus to Peru — where he got odd jobs and...
May 10, 2020
After fleeing Venezuela along with millions of others amid the country's grueling humanitarian crisis, Misael Cocho made his way by bus to Peru — where he got odd jobs and...
May 10, 2020
The coronavirus in Japan has brought not just an epidemic of infections, but also an onslaught of bullying and discrimination against the sick, their families and health workers. A government...
May 9, 2020
Little Richard, the self-proclaimed “architect of rock ‘n' roll” whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, has died...
May 9, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin marked Victory Day, the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, in a ceremony shorn of its usual military parade and pomp...
May 9, 2020
In the pecking order of figures close to Syria's government leaders, Rami Makhlouf operated at the top. Arguably the country's richest businessman with an estimated fortune worth billions of dollars...
May 9, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin marked the 75th anniversary of World War II victory in a low-key ceremony after scrapping the traditional Red Square parade because of the coronavirus pandemic. Putin...
May 9, 2020
Boris Johnson will unveil a new virus alert system, similar to how the government currently communicates terror threat levels, in Sunday's address to Britain that will set out some of...
May 9, 2020
The number of anti-Semitic crimes committed in Germany was up 13% last year, according to an annual report cited by the Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Roughly 2,000 acts were...
May 9, 2020
On the 75th anniversary of the allied victory in the World War II, The Associated Press spoke to veterans in ex-Soviet countries and discovered that lessons they learned during the...
May 8, 2020
A nurse sent by the Cuban government to Dominica to treat COVID-19 patients died after “suddenly collapsing” on Tuesday, authorities of the small Caribbean island said. Dominican media outlets identified...
May 8, 2020
Seventy-five years after World War II ended in Europe, The Associated Press spoke to veterans who endured mortal danger, oppression and fear. As they mark Victory in Europe Day on...
May 8, 2020
A detainee who has twice tested positive for COVID-19 and is still experiencing symptoms is among 100 individuals expected to be deported to Haiti on Monday by U.S. Immigration and...
May 8, 2020
Europe was marking the 75th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany to Allied forces following six years of war in a low-key fashion Friday due to coronavirus lockdown restrictions...
May 8, 2020
SEOUL, South Korea – The approval rating for Moon Jae-in hit a record high for any democratically elected South Korean president at the same point in their term in office,...
May 8, 2020
Longtime Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers, who joined the Indianapolis Colts this offseason as a free agent, has put his home in San Diego's gated Santaluz community on the market for...
May 8, 2020
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the U.S. may have to apologize if it's confirmed that American agents carried out the botched "Fast and Furious" gun running sting in...
May 8, 2020
Countries across Europe observed a subdued Victory in Europe Day, marking 75 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, after a number of landmark anniversary events...
May 8, 2020
The Venezuelan attorney general's office has brought charges against two U.S. citizens arrested for alleged incursion attempts and plans to capture President Nicolas Maduro, Attorney General Tarek William Saab said...
May 8, 2020
On Friday's 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, talk of war is afoot again — this time against a disease that has killed at least...
May 8, 2020
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering.” The U.N. chief said “anti-foreigner sentiment has surged online and...
