For 16 months, Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaidó has presented himself as a standard-bearer of democracy in South America. Leading mass protests and rallying the international community, the charismatic politician...
May 7, 2020
A hand-washing station and bright yellow signs warning of an area of “high infection” now greet the steady stream of hearses at the entrance to the San Nicolas Tolentino cemetery...
May 7, 2020
Milan's famed La Scala opera house on Thursday unveiled a virtual journey through its ornate premises and rich archives via Google Arts & Culture, with serendipitous timing as theaters throughout...
May 7, 2020
Puerto Rico hit two somber milestones in its fight against the coronavirus on Thursday, as the death toll and infection rate continue to climb. In its latest report, the Health...
May 7, 2020
A Norwegian man suspected of killing his ethnic Chinese stepsister and then storming an Oslo mosque and opening fire said Thursday on the first day of his trial that it...
May 7, 2020
As a child during the World War II siege of Leningrad, Galina Yakovleva learned how to make the best of fearful times. Today she's using those lessons as she brings...
May 7, 2020
Between 83,000 and 190,000 people could die of COVID-19 in Africa, with 29 million to 44 million infected, in the coronavirus pandemic's first year if containment measures do not work,...
May 7, 2020
North Korea has labeled South Korean military drills "a grave provocation" that demanded a response, and said recent tensions have undone prior peacemaking efforts between the two countries, state news...
May 7, 2020
On a cloudy afternoon this week, a few dozen sex workers gathered outside a subway station in downtown Mexico City to remember their longtime leader. Wearing surgical masks to protect...
May 7, 2020
The novel-coronavirus pandemic is disrupting the illicit drug trade through increased border controls, reduced air traffic and supply shortages, though the outbreak's economic fallout may lead to more people getting...
May 7, 2020
Robert De Niro esta dispuesto a participar en una futura pelicula que relate lo vivido estos meses durante la pandemia provocada por el coronavirus. Asi lo ha asegurado el oscarizado...
May 7, 2020
Una adolescente, que quedo encerrada en su propio cuerpo y a la que se le dio solo un cinco por ciento de posibilidades de recuperacion despues de sufrir una hemorragia...
May 7, 2020
"Saludamos a nuestros primeros respondedores". Ese fue el mensaje que se pudo leer en el cielo de la ciudad de Nueva York este martes en mitad de la pandemia del...
May 7, 2020
Ty, the acclaimed U.K. rapper best known for his 2003 album "Upwards," has died from coronavirus at age 47. Ty, son of Nigerian immigrants whose legal name was Ben Chijioke,...
May 7, 2020
French student Marion Nivard starting writing last year to a World War II veteran in Britain, thanking him for taking part in the Normandy invasion that freed her country from...
May 7, 2020
Every evening when health experts updated anxious Italians in televised briefings about their nation's devastating coronavirus outbreak, the lineup of authoritative figures included only one woman: the sign-language interpreter. And...
May 7, 2020
As she was treated for COVID-19 in a hospital isolation ward in Kuwait City, Amnah Ibraheem wanted to credit those caring for her. The nurses were all South Asian, the...
May 7, 2020
In Indonesia's easternmost province, felled trees are stacked to block a road that leads to Papuan villages. On the Thai-Myanmar border, the Karen people have also made makeshift barricades and...
May 7, 2020
From the Amazon city of Manaus to the seemingly endless urban sprawl of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, freshly dug graves have been filling up quickly for weeks with...
May 7, 2020
The sound of the sea eagle breaks the silence between the iron cages at Medan Zoo in Indonesia's North Sumatra province. It has been more than a month since the...
May 7, 2020
A notorious Haitian death squad leader and former CIA operative whose paramilitary organization raped, tortured and terrorized political opponents has won a stay of deportation from the United States, the...
May 6, 2020
Israel's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may form a new government while under indictment for corruption charges, clearing the way for him and his rival-turned-uneasy ally...
May 6, 2020
One of the two Americans captured by the Venezuelan military as part of a failed plot to capture leaders of the country's socialist regime said in an interrogation that the...
May 6, 2020
Israel's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may form a new government while under indictment. The decision clears the way for Netanyahu and his rival, Benny Gantz,...
May 6, 2020
With over five million followers on Instagram, Puerto Rican rapper and reggeaton singer René Perez Joglar has spent a chunk of his time in quarantine having exclusive conversations with Latin...
May 6, 2020
Drinking water seems like a universal behavior all mammals need to do to survive, but until now, scientists thought koalas were a rare exception. But for the first time ever,...
May 6, 2020
Florian Schneider-Esleben, a co-founder of German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk, has died, record label Sony said Wednesday. He was 73. Citing fellow group founder Ralf Huetter, Sony said that Schneider-Esleben...
May 6, 2020
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have released a video of Meghan reading to their son as they mark Archie's 1st birthday and promote a campaign to help children during...
May 6, 2020
After decades of exporting its nurses to other countries, the Philippines is now pressuring them to stay home to fight the coronavirus. The country, which is experiencing the second-most deadly...
May 6, 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday said he plans to ease some COVID-19 lockdown rules next week but warned that lifting measures too early could deepen Britain's economic crisis. "We...
May 6, 2020
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday accused his U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of involvement in a foiled coup against him and showed a video...
May 6, 2020
Iraqi lawmakers have approved the majority of the Cabinet of ministers proposed by Prime Minister-designate Mustafa al-Kadhimi, including the two key portfolios of defense and interior, ending a political deadlock...
May 6, 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can form a government despite the corruption charges against him, the country's highest court ruled, a controversial decision that paves the way to ending more...
May 6, 2020
The World Health Organization is considering a new mission to seek the source of the coronavirus in China, amid growing controversy over the origin of a pandemic that has killed...
May 6, 2020
The voice is strong, and the words are resolute: “Let's protect ourselves to save our family and our country; let's stop the public gatherings.” The singer? She's 9 years old....
May 6, 2020
Nazi commanders signed their surrender to Allied forces in a French schoolhouse 75 years ago this week, ending World War II in Europe and the Holocaust. Unlike the mass street...
May 6, 2020
As the coronavirus pandemic gathered strength last month, community leaders in a Palestinian neighborhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem tried to impose lockdown and quarantine measures to protect residents. The...
May 6, 2020
Gold and silver streamers fluttered in the breeze, hung from house to house down the alley, a festive sign of the holy month of Ramadan. Usually, Ghaliya Abdel-Wahab would be...
May 6, 2020
Inspired by 99-year-old Briton Tom Moore's multi-million pound charity walk, a Russian fellow World War II veteran has launched her own effort to gather contributions for the families of doctors...
May 6, 2020
Haiti's prime minister has ordered all Haitians to wear masks in public as of Monday, and banned factories from exporting the personal protective gear until they supply the government first....
