From the United States to Europe and Asia, people in many parts of the world are emerging from their homes as virus-related restrictions begin to ease and springtime temperatures climb....
May 3, 2020
Journalism in Egypt has effectively become a crime over the past four years, as authorities clamp down on media outlets and muzzle dissent, Amnesty International said in a report released...
May 3, 2020
South Korea says its troops have exchanged fire with North Korea along their tense land border. The Joint Chiefs of Staffs in Seoul says North Korean troops fired several bullets...
May 2, 2020
Power was out in parts of southern Puerto Rico and there were reports of some damage after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake rattled the island Saturday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey said...
May 2, 2020
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean and North Korean troops exchanged gunfire in the demilitarized zone between the nations Sunday morning, and the two sides are now in talks via...
May 2, 2020
It had been more than a month since Mirabai Nicholson-McKellar was infected with the coronavirus, and the 35-year-old filmmaker thought she was on her way to recovery. Then the shortness...
May 2, 2020
While stir-crazy Italians are excited to see the rules governing their country's two-month lockdown ease off – slightly – starting on Monday, many are asking just who they'll now be...
May 2, 2020
Hundreds of protesters joined demonstrations in two German cities, Stuttgart and Berlin, on Saturday against the ongoing restrictions on public life to stem the spread of the coronavirus. Organizers said...
May 2, 2020
The place North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited may be just as significant as showing his face in public after a three-week absence that raised questions about his health...
May 2, 2020
The number of people confirmed to have caught the novel coronavirus in Russia has risen by 9,623, the highest 24-hour jump since the pandemic reached the country, officials said on...
May 2, 2020
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson said plans were being made for the event of his death while he was being treated for COVID-19 in hospital. "I was not in particularly...
May 2, 2020
SEOUL, South Korea – Shots fired from North Korea hit a South Korean guard post inside the Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ, news agency Yonhap reported on Sunday, citing the South...
May 2, 2020
When Moroccan nurse Mofadal Ahyane lost his first patient to COVID-19, he had a recurring nightmare: His patient in agony slips from his body, which gradually transforms into Ahyane's own...
May 2, 2020
As body after body has passed through his rubber-gloved hands, sealed in double-layered bags for disposal, Paris undertaker Franck Vasseur has become increasingly concerned about the future after the coronavirus...
May 1, 2020
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Friday that the COVID-19 pandemic is causing “untold fear and suffering” for older people around the world who are dying at a higher rate, and...
May 1, 2020
North Korean state media says leader Kim Jong Un has made his first public appearance in 20 days amid rumors about his health. The Korean Central News Agency said Saturday...
May 1, 2020
Members of the Cuban government opposition and the exile community have denied any connection to an outburst of gunfire at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. The building was riddled...
May 1, 2020
The Cuban government has jailed more than 300 people on charges of “spreading an epidemic,” but has sent home 6,579 inmates in an attempt to avoid coronavirus contagion in prisons,...
May 1, 2020
The United States Agency for International Development is scaling up its response to the global coronavirus pandemic, acting administrator John Barsa said Friday. Barsa said the aid agency remains committed...
May 1, 2020
In Brazil's bustling Amazon city of Manaus, so many people have died within days in the coronavirus pandemic that coffins had to be stacked on top of each other in...
May 1, 2020
Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, the driver of the Afrobeat sound, has died in Paris at age 79. Allen died Thursday night at the Pompidou Hospital of an aortic aneurysm, his...
May 1, 2020
When Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte said the government would relax some parts of a nationwide lockdown, residents entering an eighth week of home confinement to inhibit the coronavirus dove for...
May 1, 2020
After Adolf Hitler annexed his native Austria and Allied bombs laid waste to Vienna, Hannelore Cruz traveled to Portugal without her parents as a refugee from hunger, cold and postwar...
May 1, 2020
The World Health Organization wants to work with governments to gradually resume normal passenger travel, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday, while stressing that the global coronavirus crisis...
May 1, 2020
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, who vanished from public view for the last three week and was rumored to be critically sick or even dead, resurfaced in public, North...
May 1, 2020
Even as COVID-19 deaths mount at factories in Mexico, the United States is sending a clear message: It's time for those that have stopped production to get back to work....
May 1, 2020
Dressed in white protective suits, cemetery workers in Tijuana last week buried dozens of bodies – casualties of the novel coronavirus – as bulldozers cleared land for more in the...
May 1, 2020
A British court on Friday ruled in favor of a tabloid newspaper that published excerpts of a letter from Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, to her estranged father, in the...
May 1, 2020
India's nationwide lockdown will be extended by two weeks after May 4, the government said on Friday, while allowing "considerable relaxations" of anti-coronavirus measures in lower-risk districts. The home ministry...
May 1, 2020
The Canadian government on Friday announced a ban on assault-style rifles, including those used in a recent mass shooting that left nearly two dozen dead. "These weapons were designed for...
May 1, 2020
At his Cairo apartment, located just off a busy road along the Nile River, Ashraf el-Helw, a third-generation Egyptian lion trainer, prepares for a show with his big cats. Instead...
May 1, 2020
Scrubs may be in fashion during the coronavirus crisis, but split ends — never. That's where Pornsupa Hattayong comes in. The 43-year-old hairstylist is boosting the morale of frontline medical...
April 30, 2020
Queen and singer Adam Lambert have a message for workers on the frontline of the COVID-19 fight: “You Are the Champions.” Brian May, Roger Taylor and Lambert recently gathered virtually...
April 30, 2020
More than a dozen United Nations independent rights experts are slamming the world agency on its response to the cholera epidemic in Haiti that has left more than 10,000 dead...
April 30, 2020
Divina Baldomero awoke, looked out the window at Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach under a cloudless sky, and decided to take her first stroll in 40 days. The 75-year-old restaurant...
April 30, 2020
It's lights-out time in the crowded room shared by more than 80 men. It's about 11:30 p.m., so the guards dim the overhead fluorescent lights and the immigration detainees slip...
April 30, 2020
North Korea's collapse has been predicted — wrongly— for decades. Some said it would happen after fighting ended in the Korean War in 1953. Others thought it would be during...
April 30, 2020
Before El Salvador experienced a single case of coronavirus, President Nayib Bukele placed the country in lockdown, shuttering schools, banning large gatherings and sealing borders. He then sent the army...
April 30, 2020
Before El Salvador experienced a single case of coronavirus, President Nayib Bukele placed the country in lockdown, shuttering schools, banning large gatherings and sealing borders. He then sent the army...
April 30, 2020
BEIJING – The novel coronavirus ground the world to a halt, and restive Hong Kong was no exception. Protests dwindled, social distancing took hold, and the city's tear-gassed streets and...
