July 4, 2020
BERLIN/BRUSSELS — At least eight European countries have lifted restrictions on entry from Japan, the Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. These eight countries; France, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Croa...
What is happening inside North Korea? Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondent Yujiro Okabe interviewed Koh Young-hwan, a former North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea in 1991.
Okabe: How do you s...
SEOUL — Food shortages in North Korea have recently become more widespread, making the regime increasingly unstable, a former North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea said in an interview w...
HANOI (Viet Nam News) — When COVID-19 hit Vietnam’s capital Hanoi in early March, Nguyen Thi Van locked herself up inside her home. Leading her entire life in a tiny body caused by muscle atrophy,...
HONG KONG/BEIJING — Fearful of a crackdown, pro-democracy groups in Hong Kong announced one after another that they would disband following the passage Tuesday of the National Security Law that bans...
BEIJING / HONG KONG — The National Security Law passed Tuesday by the administration of Chinese President Xi Jinping includes a number of tricks that would mean Hong Kong has a “high degree of aut...
BANGKOK — People in Southeast Asia who want to come to Japan after obtaining the new residence status of “specified skilled worker” are being held back in their home countries due to the spread ...
Regarding the report that China passed its national security legislation for Hong Kong, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a news conference on Tuesday, “It is regrettable that the legis...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — China’s parliament passed national security legislation for Hong Kong on Tuesday, the city’s Cable TV reported, setting the stage for the most radical change to the form...
ROME (AP) — The world surpassed two sobering coronavirus milestones Sunday — 500,000 confirmed deaths, 10 million confirmed cases — and hit another high mark for daily new infections as governm...
SYDNEY/BEIJING (Reuters) — The death toll from COVID-19 reached half a million people on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally, a grim milestone for the global pandemic that seems to be resurgent in...
If you’re unsure about the best business venture, consider rearing ostriches, as these have the potential to yield healthy economic returns. It’s not as expensive as some people think, and almost ...
LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) — The United States recorded 45,242 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, the largest single-day increase of the pandemic, according to a Reuters tally, bringing the total numbe...
SEOUL — South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s foreign policy toward the United States is at a crossroads. North Korea — seeking economic sanctions relief — has been pulling various levers t...
PARIS (Reuters) - The Eiffel Tower on Thursday welcomed its first visitors for three months - but with elevators still off-limits, they faced a long climb to sample its breathtaking views.
Shut dow...
Severe low flow periods and extensive flooding of different communities along the Mekong River last year combined with droughts in many parts of the Mekong region indicate a rising risk of severe weat...
BEIJING/TAIPEI — China and Taiwan have reacted sharply against a Japanese local municipality’s move to rename an area covering the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture. “It is a provocation ...
The luxury goods sector has witnessed a rebound in China and is playing an active role in boosting global economic recovery despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 outbreak, with more high-end br...
BEIJING (AP) — China plans to establish a special bureau in Hong Kong to investigate and prosecute crimes considered threatening to national security, the state-run news agency said Saturday, as i...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government confirmed on Friday that the country has risen above 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases, second only to the United States.
The country’s health ministr...
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government confirmed on Friday that the country has risen above 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases, second only to the United States.
The country’s health ministr...
SEOUL—Tensions on the Korean Peninsula have quickly escalated, as North Korea on Wednesday buttressed its provocative stance by revealing four “military action plans” and the South Korean milit...
Jean Kennedy Smith, who was the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy and who as a U.S. ambassador played a key role in the peace process in Northern Ireland, has died, relatives said T...
Recently in Beijing I saw something I haven’t seen in a long time, it was a street vendor pulling a cart, selling fruit. Bright-eyed local housewives and other passersby gathered around. Cherries w...
U.S. President Donald Trump’s idiosyncratic behavior is nothing new. His patterns of speech and action have been especially odd since the outbreak of huge protests over the killing of a black man by...
The world is in a dire crisis due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. East Asia, Europe and North America seem to have got past the peak of the first wave of infections, but the disease is still spread...
SEOUL — North Korea’s blowing up of a liaison office between the two Koreas near the North’s border town of Kaesong on Tuesday was apparently aimed at exerting pressure on the administration of ...
North Korea’s foreign currency reserves could dry up as early as 2023 due to economic sanctions mainly by the U.N. Security Council and the United States, according to analysis by sources close to t...
For the fourth time in its history, the Oscars are being postponed. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the ABC Television Network said Monday that the 93rd Academy Awards will now b...
Global cases of the novel coronavirus reached over 8 million on Monday, as infections surge in Latin America and the United States and China grapple with fresh outbreaks. The United States still lea...
SEOUL — South Korea on Sunday convened an emergency security meeting and urged North Korea to uphold reconciliation agreements, hours after the North threatened to demolish a liaison office and tak...
ATLANTA — Atlanta’s police chief resigned Saturday hours after a black man was fatally shot by an officer in a struggle following a field sobriety test. Authorities said the slain man had grabbed...
SEOUL — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un threatened military action against South Korea as she bashed Seoul on Saturday over declining bilateral relations and its inability to...
The Chinese government has proposed an IT-based urban development model using data to track citizens as an international standard, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. The proposal is based on its expe...
BEIJING — The administration of Chinese President Xi Jinping is working on a law revision that would allow the China Coast Guard — which has repeatedly intruded into the Japanese territorial wate...
SEOUL — A South Korean independent lawmaker proposed a bill to its National Assembly on Monday to resolve a lawsuit filed by former laborers from the Korean Peninsula.
The bill was scrapped in May...
TAIPEI — An elderly man sitting on a bench at Taipei Station smiled and spoke in fluent Japanese. “I was born in Showa 6 [1931], and my family name is Fujiwara,” he said.
“Taiwan has never ...
The coronavirus depression is here. At the end of last year, the municipal government of Wuhan, China, announced an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown cause. Then, in just over a few months, the world h...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecutors charged three more police officers Wednesday in the death of George Floyd and filed a new, tougher charge against the officer at the center of the case, delivering a ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX delivered two astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Sunday, following up a historic liftoff with an equally smooth docking in yet another firs...
MOSCOW — The Aum Supreme Truth cult continues to be active in Russia, it has been revealed in the trial of a Russian executive of Aum being held in southern Russia. According to leading Russian new...
China Central Television reported on Wednesday that China’s first domestically produced aircraft carrier, Shandong, was training at sea, and showed scenes such as the launch of the warship-borne fig...
A Russian couple stranded in Malaysia for two months due to the Movement Control Order (MCO) enforced by the government to curb the spread of COVID-19 ended up delivering a baby inside a vacant bungal...
BEIJING (AP) — China’s top economic official on Friday promised higher spending to revive its coronavirus-battered economy and curb surging job losses and said Beijing would skip setting a growth...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey on Thursday reported its lowest daily increase in confirmed coronavirus cases in the past two months, with 961 new infections in the past 24 hours.
Health Minister Fa...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization bowed to calls Monday from most of its member states to launch an independent probe into how it managed the international response to the coronavirus, wh...
China has been promoting what English-language media refer to either as the “One Belt One Road Initiative” (OBOR) or as the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI). There is no established single way...
Global deaths linked to the novel coronavirus passed 300,000 on Thursday, while reported cases of the virus are approaching 4.5 million, according to a Reuters tally. About half of the fatalities h...
Japan and Taiwan are strengthening their cooperative ties in response to the new coronavirus, with Tokyo lobbying for Taipei to be allowed in as an observer for the World Health Organization assembly,...
ATHENS — A Greek man picked up a bite-sized amount of rice and quickly combined it with a carefully cut slice of fish to make a piece of sushi.
“Here you are. This is sushi with otoro [fatty tun...
An economic team was set up on April 1 in the National Security Secretariat of the Cabinet Secretariat to function as the “control tower” of the economic security policy. The team is tasked with e...
TAIPEI/GENEVA — The administration of Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen is working hard to attend the World Health Organization’s general assembly, scheduled to begin May 18, as an observer, with thei...
SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in 20 days as he celebrated the completion of a fertilizer factory near Pyongyang, state media said Saturday, ending an abse...
BEIJING (Reuters) — Global confirmed coronavirus cases surpassed 3 million on Monday, as the United States neared 1 million cases, according to a Reuters tally. It comes as many countries are taki...
ATLANTA (AP) — As the global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 200,000 on Saturday, countries took cautious steps toward easing some lockdowns, while fears of infection made even some pande...
BRUSSELS — European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to build a €1 trillion emergency fund to help recover from the coronavirus pandemic, avoiding another all-night bust-up but leaving divisive d...
NEW YORK — More evidence is emerging that far more New Yorkers have had the coronavirus than the number confirmed by lab tests, officials said Thursday, offering insight that could help authorities...
NEW YORK — New York, the city that never sleeps, has been shrouded in stillness. The death toll from COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has totaled about 13,000 in New York State, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Even as politicians talk about “reopening” the country, New York is still intensifying restrictions intended to stop the coronavirus from spreading.
Face coverings will be now...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was cutting off U.S. payments to the World Health Organization during the coronavirus pandemic, accusing the organization of failing to...
HANOI (AP) — Forced apart by the coronavirus pandemic, Southeast Asian leaders linked up by video Tuesday to plot a strategy to overcome a crisis that has threatened their economies and kept millio...
WASHINGTON (AP) — New York’s coronavirus death toll topped 10,000 even as the lack of fresh hot spots in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world yielded a ray of optimism and fueled discussions Monday...
WASHINGTON (AP) — New York’s coronavirus death toll topped 10,000 even as the lack of fresh hot spots in the U.S. or elsewhere in the world yielded a ray of optimism and fueled discussions Monday...
BEIJING — The new coronavirus that has shaken China plainly reveals the characteristics of the Communist Party of China as an establishment that “won’t apologize.”
In the April 7 issue of th...
NEW YORK (AP) — The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus surged past 100,000 Friday as the epidemic in the U.S. cut a widening swath through not just New York City but the entire three-state m...
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause ...
LOS ANGELES — Irene Hirano Inouye, president of the U.S.-Japan Council and a longtime activist on behalf of improved Japan-U.S. relations, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday. She was 71.
The cause of ...
Seven petitions have recently been found in which leaders representing about 1,000 Japanese nationals detained in Mongolia by the Soviet Union after the end of World War II appealed for their early re...
WUHAN, China (AP) — With air raid sirens wailing and flags at half-mast, China on Saturday held a three-minute nationwide moment of reflection to honor those who have died in the coronavirus outbre...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced new federal guidelines Friday recommending that Americans wear face coverings when in public to help fight the spread of the new coronavirus. The ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed past 3,600 Tuesday, eclipsing China’s official count, as hard-hit New York City rushed to bring in more medical professionals and ...
NEW YORK — New York welcomed the arrival of a gleaming 1,000-bed U.S. Navy hospital ship on Monday as a beacon of hope for the city’s desperate fight against the coronavirus pandemic, while the na...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York state’s death toll from the coronavirus outbreak climbed Sunday above 1,000, less than a month after the first known infection in the state.
Most of those deaths have c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is extending the voluntary national shutdown for a month as sickness and death from the coronavirus pandemic rise in the U.S.
The initial 15-day period of...
SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korea fired at least one unidentified projectile into the ocean off its east coast, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Sunday, with Japan's Ministry of Defense repor...
NEW YORK — Doctors and nurses on the front lines of the U.S. coronavirus crisis pleaded on Friday for more protective gear and equipment to treat waves of patients expected to overwhelm hospitals as...
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the coronavirus and is self-isolating at his Downing Street residence but said he would still lead the government’s response t...
PHUKET, Thailand (AP) — From the sun-soaked beaches of Thailand to the foothills of Mount Everest in Nepal, tourists across Asia are finding their dream vacations have turned into travel nightmares...
GENEVA — There is a growing call online for World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to resign, citing his slow response to the outbreak of the new coronavirus and other...
BEIJING (Reuters) — Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Donald Trump during a phone call on Friday that he hopes the United States will take substantive action to improve bilateral t...
The United States’s caseload of coronavirus infections surged to the most in the world and its capital reported more infections as Italy shut most of its industry and masses of Indian day laborers ...
RIYADH/WASHINGTON — Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies pledged on Thursday to inject over $5 trillion into the global economy to limit job and income losses from the coronavirus and “do w...
The human and economic toll of the lockdowns against the coronavirus mounted Thursday as India struggled to feed the multitudes, Italy shut down most of its industry, and a record-shattering 3.3 mil...
Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven nations agreed to take the lead in supporting developing countries that are concerned about the spread of the new coronavirus, during a teleconference held on W...
LONDON — Prince Charles, the 71-year-old heir to the British throne, has tested positive for coronavirus but is in good health and is now self isolating in Scotland with mild symptoms.
Charles, e...
“Even if I go back to my country, I don’t have any family and there are no jobs. I want to keep living in Japan with my Japanese wife.”
Speaking through a transparent acrylic board in the int...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres called Monday for an immediate ceasefire in conflicts around the world to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
The U.N. chief said: “It...
LONDON (AP) — Britain has become the latest European country to go into effective lockdown to deal with the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Monday s...
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel has gone into quarantine after being informed that a doctor who administered a vaccine to her has tested positive for the new coronavirus.
Merkel’s...
BEIJING (AP) — As the fight against a new virus shifts to Europe and beyond, China is supplying millions of masks and other desperately needed items to struggling governments, hoping to build polit...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — North Korea on Saturday welcomed what it said was a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying it was a sign of “the special and ver...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), under pressure to postpone this summer’s Tokyo Games, is asking National Olympic Committees (NOCs) about the impact of the coronavirus crisis on athlete p...
SEOUL — U.S. President Donald Trump sent a personal letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, seeking to maintain good relations and offering cooperation in fighting the viral pandemic, Kim’s si...
ROME — Italy recorded a jump in deaths from coronavirus of almost 800 on Saturday, taking the toll in the world’s hardest-hit country to almost 5,000.
In its latest desperate effort to halt the ...
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Friday said it had tested an unarmed hypersonic weapon in Hawaii, as both China and Russia develop similar military and defense capabilities. The Department of Defense...
Actor-singer Kenny Rogers, the smooth, Grammy-winning balladeer who spanned jazz, folk, country and pop with such hits as “Lucille,” “Lady” and “Islands in the Stream” and embraced his per...
SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korea fired two projectiles appearing to be short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s military said on Saturday....
NEW YORK (AP) — France’s Cannes Film Festival, arguably the world’s most prestigious film festival and cinema’s largest annual gathering, has postponed its 73rd edition due to the coronavirus...
ATHENS (Reuters) — Tokyo 2020 organizers received the Olympic flame in a scaled-down handover ceremony in the Greek capital on Thursday, amid the coronavirus spread that has cast doubt on the global...
A video clip in which a teacher gives her students a demonstration on the importance of washing their hands has gone viral — in the best possible way. According to online sources, Florida pre-kind...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Iraq’s prime minister that the United States would take measures in self-defense if attacked, according to a statement on Monday ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russia’s Constitutional Court on Monday ruled it was legal to change the country’s Constitution in a way that could allow President Vladimir Putin to remain in power until 20...
BERLIN (Reuters) — German shops will close, restaurants cut their opening hours and churches and mosques will stand empty under drastic steps announced on Monday to slow the spread of the coronavir...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday that Group of Seven leaders had agreed to support a “complete” Olympics, but dodged questions about whether any of the leaders had br...
MADRID (AP) — The battle to contain the coronavirus reached new urgency, as more governments locked down borders and ordered new closures and restrictions and pleas went out to funnel masks and ven...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Wall Street suffered its biggest drop since the crash of 1987 on Monday after unprecedented steps taken by the Federal Reserve, lawmakers and the White House to slow the spread...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Racing to stall an expected surge of coronavirus cases, the White House released a series of sweeping guidelines that for the next 15 days will temporarily rewrite the norms of Ame...
LAUSANNE/ZURICH (Reuters) — The World Health Organization called on all countries on Monday to ramp up their testing programs as the best way to slow the advance of the coronavirus pandemic, and al...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A war of words between China and the United States showed no signs of letup on Monday, with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a phone call with a top Chinese diplomat exp...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — The first human trial to evaluate a candidate vaccine against the new coronavirus has begun in Seattle, U.S. health officials said Monday, raising hopes in the global fight a...
PARIS (Reuters) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday ordered stringent restrictions on people’s movement to slow the spread of the coronavirus, and said the army would be drafted in to he...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is alleging that a foreign disinformation campaign is underway aimed at spreading fear in the country amid the coronavirus pandemic, three U.S. officials ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is already helping combat the coronavirus outbreak in the United States and is considering ways to do more. But the military faces limits. Its health care system is...
JERUSALEM (AFP-JiJi) — Israel’s parliament on Monday stopped short of granting approval for the Shin Bet internal security agency to collect information about citizens to help halt the spread of c...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) — The Jewish faithful should refrain from kissing the stones of the Western Wall, the chief rabbi of the Jerusalem site said on Monday, adding to measures that religious authori...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A year after hundreds of people were killed by one of the southern hemisphere’s worst cyclones, Mozambique’s port city of Beira is rebounding, but more than a million people ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The coronavirus has now been confirmed in at least 30 of Africa’s 54 countries, officials said Monday, and regional power South Africa warned of a new crisis once the virus beg...
TEHRAN (AP) — Iran reported another 129 fatalities from the new coronavirus on Monday, the largest one-day rise in deaths since it began battling the Middle East’s worst outbreak, which has claime...
IDLIB, Syria (AP) — “There’s nothing now. Nothing at all,” said Yasser Aboud, as he looked away from his family’s few remaining belongings, dumped on the floor of the bare single room that w...
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a “foreign” virus, he says — one that can be fought by closing the nation’s borders to dangerous foreigners carrying scary disease. U.S. President Donald Trump has t...
ROME (AP) — Meeting with friends, dining out, worshiping and other daily routines have nearly halted as nations take drastic steps to try to stop the coronavirus pandemic.
Religious leaders gave ...
ATHENS (Reuters) — The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games flame handover in Athens this week will be done in an empty stadium amid the coronavirus outbreak, Greece’s Olympic Committee said on Sunday. Greece...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Federal Reserve took massive emergency action Sunday to try to help the economy withstand the coronavirus by slashing its benchmark interest rate to near zero and saying i...
BEIRUT (AP) — In a world gripped by a pandemic, global unrest and a fast-moving news cycle, it can be difficult to remember that the war in Syria is still happening. Even before the coronavirus outb...
ANKARA (AP) — Turkish and Russian troops began joint patrols Sunday on a key highway in northwestern Syria, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said, while both the Russian government and Syrian opposition...
TEHRAN (AP) — The official leading Iran’s response to the new coronavirus acknowledged Sunday that the pandemic could overwhelm health facilities in his country, which is battling the worst outbr...
KABUL (AP) — The Afghan government Saturday postponed the release of 1,500 Taliban prisoners, an Afghan official said, a decision that could sabotage a peace deal signed last month between the Tal...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has long been known for its use of technology to track the movements of Palestinian militants. Now, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to use similar technology to stop...
NEW YORK (AP) — As he campaigns for president, former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s moderate approach to governing often fails to excite his party’s most passionate voters. But on the debate s...
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s March 24 presidential primaries have been postponed until May because of fears over the new coronavirus, state election officials announced Saturday, a day after Louisian...
BAD REICHENHALL, Germany (AFP-Jiji) — Germany on Monday introduced border controls with Austria, Denmark, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland in a bid to stem the coronavirus outbreak.
Only those ...
MANILA (AP) — Thousands of police officers and army troops started sealing the Philippines’ densely populated capital on Sunday at the start of one of Southeast Asia’s most drastic containment ...
MADRID (Reuters) — Major Spanish regions shut shops, bars and restaurants, car plants ground to a halt and Easter parades were canceled as Spain prepared to enter a 15-day state of emergency on Fri...
ROME (AP) — Talk of a 400-bed field hospital in Milan’s fairgrounds. A team of Chinese experts and surplus ventilators arriving on a cargo plane. Doctors Without Borders, usually dispatched to the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. State Department summoned the Chinese ambassador to the United States on Friday to protest against comments by Beijing suggesting the U.S. military might have brough...
WELLINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — New Zealand has canceled a national remembrance service to mark Sunday’s first anniversary of the Christchurch mosque attacks because of coronavirus fears, Prime Minister J...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump intends to nominate Kenneth Weinstein, chief executive officer of the Hudson Institute think tank, as ambassador to Japan, the White House said on...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday declared the coronavirus pandemic a national emergency in order to free up more money and resources. But he denied any responsibility for del...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump faced one of the gravest threats of his political career as the coronavirus pandemic spread, leaving fellow Republicans to worry that the White Ho...
MEDAN, Indonesia (AFP-Jiji) — Indonesia has detained two Malaysians for allegedly trying to smuggle some 12,000 virus facemasks back to their home country, police said Thursday. Officials at the i...
MOSCOW (AFP-Jiji) — A joint Russian-European mission to Mars has been postponed for two years, the Russian and European space agencies said Thursday, citing the novel coronavirus and technical issu...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States waged a series of precision airstrikes on Thursday against an Iran-backed militia in Iraq that it blamed for a major rocket attack a day earlier that killed...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday called for the formation of an emergency government to confront a growing crisis over the coronavirus, offering a potential wa...
MANILA (Reuters) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday announced strict immigration curbs and a halt on domestic land, sea and air travel to and from Manila, in what he called a “loc...
MOSCOW (AFP-Jiji) — Russian authorities have blocked an opposition website that encouraged the public to speak up against constitutional changes that will allow President Vladimir Putin’s to exte...
BERLIN (Reuters) — Germany will step up surveillance of a radical wing of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party after the domestic intelligence agency designated it as an extremist enti...
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release of former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, ending roughly a year of incarceration that she had served for refusing...
CARACAS (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday hit a second subsidiary of Russia’s state-controlled Rosneft Oil Company with financial sanctions aimed at forcing Venezuela’s socialist Pres...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks and his wife, actress Rita Wilson, have both tested positive for coronavirus in Australia, the actor said on Twitter.
Hanks said that he and W...
GENEVA (Reuters) — The U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran said on Tuesday he had asked Iran to free all political prisoners temporarily from its overcrowded and disease-ridden jails to ...
PARIS (Reuters) — President Emmanuel Macron warned France on Tuesday that it was at just the start of a health epidemic as the coronavirus outbreak crept closer to the heart of French political powe...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince meant to send a strong message to critics within the royal family by detaining senior princes last weekend: Don’t you dare oppose my succession to ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bernie Sanders has a choice. The face of the Democrats’ far-left flank is suddenly staring up at a towering wall of opposition from his own party, an urgent call to unify ag...
BANGKOK (Reuters) — Myanmar’s parliament blocked a bid by the party of leader Aung San Suu Kyi to reduce the role of the military in politics on Tuesday, almost a decade into a troubled democrati...
KABUL/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is preparing to release 1,500 Taliban prisoners in coming days, according to a decree viewed by Reuters on Tuesday, as the United Nati...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s proposed payroll tax break met with bipartisan resistance Tuesday on Capitol Hill as pressure mounts on the administration and Congress to work more vig...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) — Pope Francis has canceled his regular appearances in public to stop crowds gathering to see him and will stream them on the internet from inside the Vatican because of the ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday opened the door to constitutional changes that would allow him to remain in power until 2036, but said he favored term limits once the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. intelligence and security officials on Tuesday will brief Congress about how Russia has been using social media to stoke racial and social differences ahead of this year...
ANKARA (Reuters) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would not stop migrants trying to cross Turkey’s border into Greece despite EU pressure to do so, but he also announce...
MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump will not be going to Moscow for Victory Day celebrations on May 9, the White House announced Tuesday in a disappointment for the Kremlin. The White House...
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Libyan military commander Khalifa Hifter in Berlin on Tuesday in a bid to advance efforts to secure a lasting ceasefire in Libya. An administrati...
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) — Families who lost loved ones aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 visited the crash site on Tuesday to mark the first anniversary of the tragedy, a day after interim results...
GENEVA (Reuters) — The coronavirus is closer to causing a pandemic, but outbreaks in countries can still be controlled through a combination of containment and mitigation measures, the World Health...
GENEVA (Reuters) — A U.N. human rights investigator urged reclusive North Korea on Monday to allow full access for medical and humanitarian experts amid concern the coronavirus could hit malnourishe...
KABUL (Reuters) — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was sworn in for a second term on Monday, but the ceremony was marred by a rocket attack and a rival held his own inauguration ceremony in an escalati...
WASHINGTON (AP) — American troops have begun leaving Afghanistan for the initial troop withdrawal required in the U.S.-Taliban peace agreement, the U.S. military confirmed Monday, amid political ch...
DUBAI (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is behind the kingdom’s boldest and riskiest moves in decades, most recently shutting down Islam’s holiest sites to pilgrims to sty...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia will impose a fine of up to 500,000 riyals ($133,000) on people who do not disclose health information and travel details at entry points, it said on Monday, as the G...
SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch prosecutor on Monday solemnly read out the names of the 298 people killed in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, at the start of the trial of three...
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) — Ethiopian investigators singled out faulty systems on a Boeing 737 MAX plane in an interim report on last year’s Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people, piling pr...
VIENNA (AP) — Iran continues to provide international inspectors access to its active nuclear facilities, even after its announcement it was no longer bound by “any restrictions” of the landmar...
BEIJING (AP) — As the rest of the world grapples with a burgeoning virus outbreak, China’s ruling Communist Party has deployed its propaganda playbook to portray its leader as firmly in charge, l...
DETROIT (AP) — Bernie Sanders proved his 2016 U.S. presidential bid was serious with an upset victory in Michigan powered by his opposition to free trade and appeal among working-class voters. Four ...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — The U.S. military said Monday they are planning to deploy a miniature nuclear generator that can be carried in a freight truck and could power a remote base indefinitely. ...
The newly formed two-man race for the Democratic presidential nomination debuts Tuesday, a week after Joe Biden benefited from a rapid consolidation of moderate and establishment voters, while Bernie...
LONDON (Reuters) — Britain’s top royals came together on Monday at Westminster Abbey in their last public family gathering before Prince Harry and his wife Meghan set off on a new career path dev...
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico/SANTIAGO (Reuters) — Latin American women stayed away from offices, schools and government offices on Monday to join a second day of marches to protest against gender violence...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Thousands of women across Mexico planned to stay home from work or school on Monday for “A Day Without Women,” hours after an unprecedented number of them filled the streets ...
SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in expressed guarded hope for the country’s fight against the coronavirus on Monday, saying an ongoing downward trend in new infections could l...
SEOUL (AFP-Jiji) — Several embassies in North Korea closed Monday as many diplomats were flown out following weeks of tight quarantine restrictions imposed by Pyongyang over the spread of the novel...
ROME (Reuters) — Italy’s southern regions warned hundreds of thousands of its people who emigrated to the wealthy north of the country not to return home, amid fears of an exodus from a no-go zone...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia imposed on Sunday a temporary lockdown on its eastern oil-producing province of Qatif, home to most of its 15 coronavirus infections, and suspended schools and univer...
BEIRUT (AFP-Jiji) — Aid agencies are moving to prevent a new coronavirus outbreak in conflict-plagued northwestern Syria, where damaged health infrastructure and massive displacement make containme...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s parliament on Sunday beefed up the security detail protecting Benny Gantz, the main electoral challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after deeming various deat...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The photo of his father was barely recognizable. The old man looked unusually pale and tired, and his customary beard was shaved off. The son who received the photo over WhatsApp ...
DETROIT (Reuters) — For Bernie Sanders to remain competitive with Joe Biden in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, he will have to repeat what he did four years ago: win the Michi...
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) — Older Americans, especially those with chronic medical concerns, should probably avoid big social gatherings and airline flights, given the rapid spread of coronavi...
ATLANTA (AP) — Sixty years have passed since Roslyn Pope came home from Europe to a segregated South and channeled her frustrations into writing “An Appeal for Human Rights.”
The document publ...
As coronavirus cases exploded across the world, federal medical workers tasked with screening incoming passengers at U.S. airports grew alarmed: Many were working without the most effective masks to p...
Cruise ships hit by coronavirus outbreaks have quickly found themselves with no ports for thousands of passengers as countries on four continents have quarantined vessels or kept them at sea for days...
For the past two weeks, the Iranian regime’s catastrophic mishandling of the coronavirus crisis and the immediate danger this poses to neighboring countries have distracted attention from the more t...
JERUSALEM (AP) — A defiant Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday he was “not going anywhere” even after he again fell short of a parliamentary majority with his hard-line alli...
BEIRUT (Reuters) — Lebanon announced it cannot meet its debt payments and halted a March 9 bond payment of $1.2 billion on Saturday, setting the heavily indebted state on course for a sovereign def...
KABUL (AFP-Jiji) — Dozens of people were killed when gunmen opened fire at a political rally in Kabul on Friday, the deadliest assault in Afghanistan since the U.S. signed a withdrawal deal with the...
ROME (Reuters) — The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has risen by 49 to 197, the Civil Protection Agency said on Friday, the largest daily increase in fatalities since the conta...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twenty-one people aboard a mammoth cruise ship off the California coast tested positive for the new coronavirus and 19 of them are crew members, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence ...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — The coronavirus is getting a new name from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — the “Wuhan virus” — to the anger of China where the global pandemic was first detecte...
NEW YORK (AP) — Anna Alexander, a property manager in Virginia Beach, Va., started the day Monday thinking that she might avoid shaking hands because of the coronavirus outbreak. Then somebody stuck...
SEOUL — South Korea announced Friday it would suspend 90-day visa waivers for Japan and take other measures to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. These steps are taken as countermeasures to ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Elizabeth Warren ended her once-promising presidential campaign on Thursday after failing to finish higher than third place in any of the 18 states that have voted so far. While t...
WASHINGTON (AP) — While Super Tuesday left the Democrats with a pair of front-runners whom President Donald Trump believes he can define and defeat, there are still some private worries in the White...
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) — The search for a Democrat to challenge Republican President Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 election narrowed on Wednesday to a choice between Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden...
KABUL (Reuters) — The United States on Wednesday carried out its first airstrike on Taliban fighters in Afghanistan since the two sides signed a troop withdrawal agreement on Saturday. A U.S. forc...
LIMA (Reuters) — Former U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, a Peruvian diplomat who played a crucial role in ending the Iran-Iraq war of 1980 to 1988, died on Wednesday at his home in L...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved on Wednesday an $8.3 billion bill to combat the spread of the new coronavirus and develop vaccines for the highly con...
NEW YORK (AP) — A divisive debate over same-sex marriage animated the 2004 presidential election as voters across the country approved constitutional amendments banning such unions. Sixteen years la...
BEIJING (Reuters) — Worrying cases of recovered coronavirus patients in China testing positive again for the infection have raised questions among doctors about the criteria being used for dischargi...
GENEVA/LONDON (Reuters) — About 3.4% of confirmed cases of COVID-19 have died, far above seasonal flu’s fatality rate of under 1%, but the novel coronavirus can be contained, the World Health Orga...
As news broke of more cases of coronavirus spreading across the United States, T-Mobile had a novel response to the threat: fewer hugs, kisses or high-fives.
The Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless prov...
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (Reuters) — The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday gave further unequivocal backing to this summer’s Tokyo Olympics, urging athletes to prepare “full steam” desp...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Tuesday in a bid to shield the world’s largest economy from the impact of the coronavirus, but the emergency move failed to c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A resurgent Joe Biden scored victories from Texas to Massachusetts on Super Tuesday, revitalizing a presidential bid that was teetering on the edge of disaster just days earlier. B...
A subculture of collecting hyperrealistic baby dolls called “reborns” is thriving on social media worldwide, but the mostly female collectors say they aren’t just “playing mommy.” <div s...
KIRKLAND, Wash. (Reuters) — Six people in the Seattle area have died of illness caused by the new coronavirus, health officials said on Monday, as authorities across the United States scrambled to p...
MILAN (AP) — The coronavirus outbreak in northern Italy has so overwhelmed the public health system that officials are taking extraordinary measures to care for the sick, seeking to bring doctors ou...
SEOUL/GAPYEONG, South Korea (Reuters) — The founder of the church at the center of South Korea’s coronavirus outbreak apologized on Monday after one of its members tested positive for the virus an...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China’s U.N. ambassador said Monday that North Korea is suffering “negatively” from the coronavirus and called for greater flexibility from the United States and other c...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The dizzying fight for the Democratic presidential nomination reaches a critical juncture on Tuesday as millions of voters from Maine to California head to the polls. Sen. Bernie...
ISTANBUL (AFP-Jiji) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Monday that “millions” of migrants would soon head for Europe, drawing accusations from EU leaders that he is trying to pre...
TEHRAN (AP) — A member of a council that advises Iran’s supreme leader died Monday from the new coronavirus, becoming the highest-ranking official within the Islamic Republic’s Shiite theocracy ...
TEHRAN (AFP-Jiji) —The U.N. World Health Organization on Monday sent its first planeload of assistance to help fight coronavirus in Iran, the second-worst hit country after China, as the death toll...
TEHRAN (AFP-Jiji) —The new coronavirus has sparked intense debate in Iran between ultraconservative Shiite clerics and the government on how to most effectively tackle the deadliest outbreak of the...
KABUL (Reuters) — Taliban militants will not take part in intra-Afghan talks until the Afghan government releases about 5,000 of their prisoners, a spokesman said Monday, presenting a major possibl...
ANKARA/AMMAN (Reuters) — Syrian government forces entered parts of a strategic rebel-held town on Monday, and Turkey said it would keep hitting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s troops after ram...
BEIJING (Reuters) — Tens of thousands of ethnic Uighurs were moved to work in conditions suggestive of “forced labor” in factories across China supplying 83 global brands, an Australian think t...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong, grappling with months of sometimes violent anti-government unrest, is to spend about 500 million Hong Kong dollars (U.S.$64.3 million) on police protective equipmen...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States on Monday said it was slashing the number of Chinese nationals permitted to work at the U.S. offices of major Chinese state-owned media outlets to retaliate...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Russia has developed unique offense weapons without the intention of starting a war with anyone but to maintain “strategic balance” and ...
VATICAN CITY (AFP-Jiji) — Historians will begin combing the archives of the world’s most contentious pope on Monday, hoping to glean why Pius XII stayed silent during the Nazi extermination of Je...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles into its eastern sea on Monday as it begins to resume weapons demonstrations after a months-long hiatus that could have been forced by th...
TEHRAN (AFP-Jiji) — The new coronavirus claimed another 11 lives in Iran, bringing the country’s overall toll to 54, according to official figures released on Sunday that showed the virus was spr...
SEOUL (Jiji Press) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Sunday called on Japan to work together to overcome a crisis, apparently referring to the ongoing spread of the new coronavirus in the two...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister-designate announced his withdrawal from the post Sunday night after failing to secure parliamentary support for his Cabinet selection, prolonging the politica...
SEOUL (Reuters) — The government of Seoul asked for a murder investigation into leaders of a Christian sect at the center of the country’s deadly coronavirus outbreak, saying the church was liabl...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s peace deal with the Taliban opens the door for an initial American troop withdrawal that Defense Secretary Mark Esper sees as a step toward the broade...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign said Sunday that it raised more than $46.5 million in February, a show of financial strength after the Vermont senator finished a ...
PARIS (Bloomberg) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to push through a controversial pension reform without a vote in the lower house of Parliament sparked protests among opposition la...
BRATISLAVA (AP) — Slovakia’s center-right populist opposition claimed victory Sunday in the country’s parliamentary election, ending the reign of the long-dominant but scandal-tainted leftist p...
BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela (AFP-Jiji) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said he could have been killed during a shooting attack on a protest march in the country’s west that wounded a teena...
SYDNEY (AFP-Jiji) — Australian summers are lengthening by a month or more while winters are getting shorter due to climate change, according to an analysis by a leading think tank released Monday. ...
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md., (Reuters) — Conservative activists are enthusiastically taking up Republican U.S. President Donald Trump’s reelection rallying cry that his Democratic adversaries are pursuin...
Pandemics come and pandemics go.
In the grip of a new infection spreading around a planet with no natural immunity, it can feel like the sky is falling. Over the coming months, it’s likely that a ...
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that his “journey” in the nation’s highest office would have been a failure had he not be able to rid the government of people ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s quest for a second term received a boost on Saturday from a deal with the Taliban for a troop pullout from Afghanistan, but it could take time ...
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Veterans of America’s longest war are finding themselves torn as the U.S. signs a potentially historic peace accord with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
For many, the U.S. is l...
TEL AVIV (AFP-Jiji) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Benny Gantz were wrapping up another bitter election campaign on Saturday, before voters cast their ballots for the third t...
DUBAI (AP) — Iran is preparing for the possibility of “tens of thousands” of people getting tested for the new coronavirus as the number of confirmed cases spiked again Saturday, an official sa...
LONDON (Reuters) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds announced on Saturday they are expecting their first child together and are engaged to be married.
The cou...
ANKARA (AP) — Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country’s borders with Europe were open Saturday, making good on a longstanding threat to let refugees into the continent as thousa...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had asked President Vladimir Putin for Russia to stand aside in Syria and let Turkey fight Syrian government forces a...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP) — Malaysia’s king on Saturday appointed seasoned politician Muhyiddin Yassin as the country’s new leader, trumping Mahathir Mohamad’s bid to return to power after a week of ...
MILAN (AP) — Italian tourism officials fear a new virus could do more damage to the industry than the Sept. 11 terror attacks as the number of confirmed cases in the country shot up past the 1,000 ...
TAIPEI (Reuters) — Taiwan’s foreign minister on Saturday accused giant neighbor China of waging cyber “war” on the island to disrupt its fight against the coronavirus by using fake news, as t...
PARIS (Bloomberg) — One of France’s dearest touchy-feely customs is running up against the coronavirus. Health Minister Olivier Veran urged his compatriots to avoid greeting each other with a ch...
It’s not often these days that Germany’s Social Democrats have good economic ideas. But a forthcoming initiative by one of them makes eminent sense, and deserves more support than it’s likely to...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Joe Biden scored a thundering victory Saturday in South Carolina’s Democratic primary on the strength of African American support, a decisive win that could force moderate r...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Travelers entering the United States from Italy, South Korea and Iran will face new restrictions as part of efforts to curtail the spread of the coronavirus, President Donald...
SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw military drills on Friday, state media KCNA said, a rare public outing amid efforts to prevent an outbreak of the coronavirus in the isolat...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. public health officials said they have identified four “presumptive” coronavirus cases believed to have emerged from community transmission of the infection, signalin...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States has decided to postpone a meeting with leaders of Southeast Asian countries it had planned to host on March 14 due to worries about the coronavirus outbreak,...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — The first detected case of coronavirus in Africa highlights the vulnerability of the world’s poorest continent to outbreaks of contagious diseases.
Much of Africa struggles wi...
BEIRUT (AP) — An airstrike by Syrian government forces killed 29 Turkish soldiers in northeast Syria, a Turkish official said Friday, marking the largest death toll for Turkey in a single day since...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. intelligence agencies are monitoring the global spread of coronavirus and the ability of governments to respond, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday, warning t...
VACAVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Public health officials were retracing the steps of a Northern California woman on Thursday believed to be the first person in the U.S. to contract the highly contagious co...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that a widespread U.S. outbreak of the new respiratory virus sweeping the globe isn’t inevitable even as top health authorities at his s...
TAIPEI (Reuters) — Taiwan on Thursday raised its epidemic response level to the highest as it readied a $2 billion package to cushion the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on its export-reliant ec...
ROME (AP) — Italy reported a 45% one-day increase in people infected with the coronavirus as other countries in Europe recorded their first cases Tuesday, producing evidence that travelers are carr...
ANKARA/AMMAN (Reuters) — Syrian rebels backed by the Turkish military have seized the town of Nairab in northwest Syria’s Idlib Province, Turkish and rebel officials said on Tuesday, the first are...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Donors and aid groups are planning to suspend humanitarian aid to areas of Yemen controlled by the Houthis in the coming months if the group does not stop hindering the deliv...
NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 20 people were killed in three days of clashes in New Delhi apparently sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump’s first state visit to India, with the death toll expected ...
CAIRO (AFP-Jiji) —Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak, who ruled for three decades before he was ousted amid the Arab Spring protests in 2011, died Tuesday at age 91.
The once burly autocrat...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Afghanistan’s government has agreed to postpone President Ashraf Ghani’s inauguration for a second term, the United States said on Tuesday as it declined to recognize com...
OSLO (Reuters) — A vault in the Arctic built to preserve seeds for rice, wheat and other food staples contains 1 million varieties with the addition on Tuesday of specimens grown by Cherokee Indian...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Bernie Sanders has spent much of his career on the political margins, an outsider looking in. Now, the protest politician is learning what it’s like to be the front-runner ...
OTTAWA/TORONTO (Reuters) — Protesters in Canada blocked train lines, Vancouver’s port entrance and at least one highway on Tuesday in response to the arrest of 10 indigenous activists when police...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday barred a lawsuit against a Border Patrol agent for fatally shooting a 15-year-old Mexican boy on Mexican soil from across the border in Texa...
LESBOS, Greece (AP) — Riot police and residents clashed for several hours on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios on Tuesday, as protesters tried to prevent authorities from bringing excavating ma...
LONDON (Reuters) — Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg met Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai at Britain’s University of Oxford on Tuesday and posed for a photo together.
Yousafzai, wide...
CARACAS (Reuters) — Armed assailants murdered the captain of an oil tanker after boarding his ship while it was anchored off the coast of eastern Venezuela, according to a local union leader and a ...
Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. voters will cast ballots this year on devices that look and feel like the discredited paperless voting machines they once used, yet leave a paper record of the vote. But computer se...
SEOUL (AP) — China and South Korea on Tuesday reported more cases of a new viral illness that has been concentrated in North Asia but is causing global worry as clusters grow in the Middle East and ...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — China on Monday declared an immediate and “comprehensive” ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals, a practice believed responsible for the deadly coronavirus outbre...
GENEVA (Reuters) — The coronavirus outbreak can still be beaten, the World Health Organization said Monday, insisting it was premature to declare it a pandemic even though it had the potential to re...
Due to the spread of infections with a new coronavirus, the decision has been made to postpone the holding of the National People’s Congress in China. What has brought about this extraordinary situa...
RIYADH (Reuters) — Finance officials from the world’s 20 biggest economies (G20) on Sunday referenced climate change in their final communique for the first time in U.S. President Donald Trump’...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ commanding Nevada caucus victory made him a top target for his Democratic rivals and a growing source of anxiety for establishment Democrats worr...
MOSCOW (AP) — Bus drivers in Moscow kept their WhatsApp group chat buzzing with questions about what to do if they spotted passengers who might be from China riding with them in the Russian capital...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — China decided Monday to postpone its annual parliament session for the first time since the Cultural Revolution, as the country battles the coronavirus outbreak. Top Communis...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States has seen no uptick in Islamic State activity in Iraq and northeastern Syria, U.S. special representative for Syria James Jeffrey said on Thursday, weeks aft...
BERLIN (AP) — As Germany’s president expressed his sympathy and shock during a candlelight vigil for nine people killed by an immigrant-hating gunman, a woman called out from the crowd, demanding ...
BERLIN (Reuters) — Germany faced calls to toughen gun ownership laws and step up efforts to track far-right sympathizers after the suspect in one of its worst mass shootings since World War II was f...
Given Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s penchant for political gamesmanship, it is hard to know how seriously to take Turkey’s request for U.S. Patriot missile-defense batteries to be deplo...
DUBAI (AP) — Iran’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that voter turnout in last week’s parliamentary elections stood at 42.57%, the lowest in decades, in a possible sign of widespread dissatisfacti...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday he’s ready to sign a peace deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan if a temporary truce holds in America’s longest war. “Time to come ho...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Naval forces from the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen on Sunday foiled an “imminent terrorist” attack by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in the southern Red Sea, a majo...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Nine people were killed and buildings collapsed across southeastern Turkey on Sunday when a magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck near the border with Iran, injuring more than a hund...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israel military said early Monday that it struck Palestinian militants targets in Gaza and Syria in response to rockets fired toward southern Israel on Sunday evening, hours af...
LOME (AFP-Jiji) — Togo President Faure Gnassingbe has won a fourth term in power, the national electoral commission declared on Monday, as his main rival accused authorities of fraud. The incumbe...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A burn-it-down candidate is topping a splintered field of more moderate contenders and setting the party’s establishment wing on edge.
It’s how Donald Trump began his unlikely...
BARSTOW, Calif. (AP) — A California man who said he wanted to fly to the edge of outer space to see if the world is round has died after his homebuilt rocket blasted off into the desert sky and plu...
DENVER (Bloomberg) — Pete Buttigieg welcomed a 9-year-old boy on stage at a rally in Denver on Saturday night after the young boy asked the Democratic presidential candidate for help coming out as ...
BERLIN (Reuters) — Voters handed German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives their worst-ever result in Hamburg on Sunday, punishing them for flirting with the far-right in an eastern state a...
KUALA LUMPUR (AP) — Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad tendered his resignation to Malaysia’s king Monday while his political party quit the ruling alliance in a shocking political upheaval less tha...
BANGKOK (Reuters) — Hundreds of students and supporters held a protest in Bangkok on Saturday against a court decision dissolving Thailand’s second-largest opposition party, less than a year after...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — Thousands of Russian-linked social media accounts have launched a coordinated effort to spread alarm about the new coronavirus, disrupting global efforts to fight the epidemi...
SEOUL (AP) — South Korea reported an eight-fold jump in viral infections Saturday with more than 400 cases mostly linked to a church and a hospital, while the death toll in Iran climbed to six and a...
ALGIERS (AFP-Jiji) — Algerian riot police used water cannons to disperse demonstrators who on Saturday marked the first anniversary of a protest movement that seeks an overhaul of the political syst...
NEW YORK/GENEVA — The United States and Japan, among other countries, are increasingly concerned about top posts of several specialized bodies of the United Nations being filled by Chinese officials...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Pro-democracy protesters have all but vanished from the streets of Hong Kong over the past month as residents avoid the new coronavirus, but the outbreak has broadened disconte...
WASHINGTON/LAS VEGAS (Reuters) — U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders warned Russia on Friday to stay out of 2020 White House elections after U.S. officials had told him Moscow was...
TEHRAN (AP) — Iranians voted for a new parliament Friday, with turnout seen as a key measure of support for Iran’s leadership as sanctions weigh on the economy and U.S. pressure isolates the coun...
In early February, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab took a post-Brexit tour of some key Indo-Pacific countries, reflecting London’s desire to attract alternative commercial relationships so it...
BERLIN (Jiji Press) — A British movie featuring Minamata disease, a serious illness caused by mercury poisoning and named after the Japanese city where it was first discovered, will premiere at the...
TOKYO (Reuters) — Newly released data from a Japanese research institute appears to back the government’s case that its quarantine strategy for the Diamond Princess cruise ship was successful in s...
BRUSSELS (AFP-Jiji) — The EU’s 27 leaders on Friday condemned Syrian government attacks on the city of Idlib, the country’s last rebel enclave, warning of humanitarian disaster. “The renewed...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli prosecutors on Thursday announced the opening of a criminal investigation into the failed start-up of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s challenger, shaking up the final...
ADDIS ABABA (AP) — A rare and looted crown from the 18th century was returned to Ethiopia on Thursday after it was discovered in the Netherlands two decades ago.
The Dutch government facilitated ...
ANKARA (AP) — Two Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday in an airstrike in northwestern Syria, Turkey said, after an attack by Ankara-backed opposition forces that targeted Syrian government troops...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of U.S. President Donald Trump, was sentenced to more than three years in prison Thursday for obstructing a congressional investigation in a case ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has made an unconventional pick to oversee America’s spy agencies: an unusually undiplomatic ambassador who has had little intelligence experience.
...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States blacklisted five Iranian officials on Thursday, accusing them of preventing free and fair elections a day before a parliamentary vote that it branded a “s...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — More than 150 historians and researchers have signed up to access the soon-to-open Vatican archives of Pope Pius XII, evidence of the intense scholarly interest into the World W...
TBILISI/LONDON (Reuters) — Britain and the United States joined Georgia on Thursday in blaming Russia for a large-scale cyber-attack last year that knocked thousands of Georgian websites offline an...
HONG KONG (AP) — Volunteers from a Hong Kong theater group are turning their backstage skills to helping fight the new virus, sewing reusable protective face masks for those who can’t access or a...
HANAU, Germany (AFP-Jiji) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the “poison” of racism Thursday after a shooter with apparent far-right beliefs killed nine people at a shisha bar and a caf...
SYDNEY (Reuters) — Two people were killed and 12 others were injured when an Australian interstate train derailed outside Melbourne on Thursday evening, police said.
The train, which was travelin...
BRUSSELS (AFP-Jiji) — Europeans could include the issue of stolen cultural artifacts, especially Greek or Roman antiquities, in negotiations on their future relationship with Britain, according to ...
TEHRAN (AFP-Jiji) — Two people have died in Iran after testing positive on Wednesday for the new coronavirus, the health ministry said, in the Islamic republic’s first cases of the disease. Acco...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, are breaking free of the royal family starting March 31, the couple’s office said Wednesday.
The announcement comes as Buckingham Pal...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his public attacks on the Justice Department on Wednesday, there was little outward worry from either end of Pennsylvania Avenue that At...
PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors are turning up the heat on disgraced car industry executive Carlos Ghosn, opening a judicial inquiry into alleged money laundering, fraud and misuse of company asset...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing a Russian-backed Syrian offensive are being squeezed into ever smaller areas near Turkey’s border “under horrendous conditions” i...
VIENTIANE (Reuters) — China called for solidarity on Thursday in a special meeting to discuss the coronavirus outbreak with Southeast Asian nations as it faces criticism for its handling of the epid...
BEIJING (Reuters) — China has revoked the press credentials of three journalists with the Wall Street Journal after the newspaper declined to apologize for a column with a headline calling China th...
SYDNEY (AFP-Jiji) — Australia set up a national inquiry Thursday into its five-month bushfire crisis that affected three in four Australians and prompted widespread criticism of the government for ...
GENEVA/CAIRO (Reuters) — The United Nations sought to salvage talks over a ceasefire for Libya on Wednesday, after the government based in Tripoli announced overnight that it was pulling out after ...
LONDON (Reuters) — Britain will prioritize access for high-skilled workers from around the world in its post-Brexit points-based immigration system, the government said on Tuesday, setting out its ...
NAJAF, Iraq (AP) — When Iraq’s top Shiite cleric underwent surgery for a fractured bone last month, it sent shivers around the country and beyond. “May God heal Iraq,” read a photo of Grand Ay...
ANKARA/AMMAN (Reuters) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday a military operation by his forces to push back a Syrian government offensive against rebels in northwest Syria was...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday dismissed a veteran, once close adviser who until recently managed Moscow’s relations with war-torn Ukraine. Putin fired Vladislav ...
SEOUL (AP) — Nearly a year after he was bailed out of jail while facing corruption charges, former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak was taken back into custody on Wednesday after an appeals cou...
BERLIN (AP) — Russia will temporarily ban Chinese nationals from entering the country due to the virus outbreak centered in China that has infected more than 73,000 people worldwide, Russian author...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Trump administration said Tuesday it will begin treating five major Chinese state-run media entities with U.S. operations the same as foreign embassies, requiring them to...
KABUL (Reuters) — An agreement between the Taliban and U.S. forces to reduce violence will come into force within the next five days, Afghanistan’s acting interior minister said on Tuesday, amid ...
SEOUL (Reuters) — Despite North Korea’s ban on foreign tourism over coronavirus fears, the isolated nation has announced plans to stage its “Mass Games,” featuring thousands of dancers, gymna...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A roadside bombing targeted a police vehicle in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing a policeman and wounding three others, officials said.
The police were assigned ...
KARACHI (AP) — A gas leak in the southern port city of Karachi has killed 14 people and sickened hundreds more, Pakistani health officials said Tuesday. The leak that started Sunday has set off ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) — The Canadian government aims to evacuate nationals aboard a virus-hit cruise ship quarantined off Yokohama on either Thursday or Friday, Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champa...
JERUSALEM (AFP-Jiji) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial will open on March 17, just two weeks after the embattled leader tries to secure reelection, officials said Tue...
TEHRAN (AFP-Jiji) — Iran said Tuesday that a German held in Iran has been released as part of a prisoner swap for an Iranian held in Germany on suspicion of violating U.S. sanctions. “We announ...
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.-supported government in Libya said Tuesday it has suspended its participation in talks in Geneva aimed at salvaging a fragile ceasefire in the North African country following...
KIEV (AP) — Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists blamed each other for an outbreak of fighting in the country’s rebel-held east on Tuesday.
The fighting erupted on the fifth anniversary of the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — For Mike Bloomberg, the one-way conversation with Democratic voters is about to end.
By spending more than $400 million of his own money and largely bypassing his opponents by s...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) — China’s government is enlisting the help of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. to expand color-based systems for tracking individuals affected with the coro...
BEIJING (AP) — China reported 1,886 new virus cases and 98 more deaths in its update Tuesday on a disease outbreak that has caused mild illness in most people, an assessment that promoted guarded op...
BEIJING (AP) — For decades, the Uighur imam was a bedrock of his farming community in China’s far west. On Fridays, he preached Islam as a religion of peace. On Sundays, he treated the sick with ...
BEIJING (Reuters) — Chinese authorities have arrested a prominent rights activist and legal scholar who had called on President Xi Jinping to step down over his handling of crises including the cor...
PHNOM PENH (AP) — The feel-good story of how Cambodia allowed a cruise ship to dock after it was turned away elsewhere in Asia for fear of spreading a new disease took an unfortunate turn after a p...
DAMASCUS (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad congratulated his forces Monday for recent gains in northwestern Syria that led to his troops consolidating control over Aleppo Province, pledging to pr...
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union foreign ministers agreed Monday to end Operation Sophia, the bloc’s naval mission in the Mediterranean Sea, and launch a new maritime effort focused more on enforci...
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — India’s top court ruled on Monday that women could serve as army commanders, dismissing the government’s stance that male soldiers were not ready to acc...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former South African President FW de Klerk on Monday apologized and withdrew his statement that the country’s former harsh system of racial separation known as apartheid was n...
KABUL (Reuters) — Taliban fighters attacked Afghan government forces overnight, and militant commanders said on Monday insurgency operations would go-ahead until they receive fresh instructions bas...
KABOBAYAN CAMP, Pakistan (AP) — Hukam Khan isn’t sure how old he is, but his beard is long and white, and when he came to Pakistan 40 years ago fleeing an earlier war in Afghanistan, his children...
The once little-known former mayor of a midsize Midwestern city vaulted over a former vice president and several U.S. senators in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire presidential primary. The 38-year-...
RICHMOND, Calif. (Reuters) — Democratic White House contenders Bernie Sanders and Michael Bloomberg stepped up their attacks on each other on Monday, with Sanders accusing the media mogul of trying...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The killing of a 7-year-old girl on the southern outskirts of Mexico City has stoked rising anger over the brutal slayings of women, including one found stabbed to death and skin...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Britain’s chief negotiator on Monday set out a clashing course in trade talks with the European Union, saying the 27-nation bloc has totally missed the point of Brexit if it think...
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — More than 300 American cruise ship passengers, including 14 who tested positive for coronavirus, were being quarantined at military bases in California and Texa...
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities on Monday reported a slight upturn in new virus cases and 105 more deaths, as the military dispatched hundreds of additional medical workers and extra supplies to ...
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump took a loop around the Daytona 500 racetrack on Sunday in his presidential limousine, drawing cheers from fans at NASCAR’s most prestigi...
Two months after suffering its worst general election result for 84 years, Britain’s Labour Party continues to pick up the pieces. While Boris Johnson’s Conservatives govern with an 80-seat majori...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — China’s government is purging unpopular local officials and commandeering heroic stories of doctors on the frontline as it tries to shield itself from public rage over the han...
MUNICH (AFP-Jiji) — Global defense spending saw its biggest jump in a decade in 2019, driven by the U.S. and China as rivalries and conflicts stoke military investment. The International Institute...
CARACAS (AP) — Venezuela’s armed forces and civilian militias took the streets in cities, beaches and border regions on Saturday for drills ordered by President Nicolas Maduro, amid tensions betw...
MUNICH (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday that a truce agreement between the United States and the Taliban that could lead to the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan ...
JUBA (AFP-Jiji) — South Sudan’s president said on Saturday he would return to a system of 10 states, a key opposition demand, paving the way for a unity government and an end to the country’s ci...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — It was a case that tore a family apart — and exposed the faultlines in an increasingly bitter global row over the rights of a child to define their own gender...
SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in 22 days amid an outbreak of coronavirus, state media reported on Saturday, to visit a national mausoleum and mar...
PARIS (AP) — France on Saturday reported the first death outside Asia of a person infected with the new virus from China, an 80-year-old Chinese tourist who two French hospitals initially turned aw...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — The foreign ministers of China and the Vatican have met in the first high-level encounter between the sides — a new sign of improving relations between two states with no dipl...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — When the Bernie Sanders for President campaign set up shop in Las Vegas last July, its first move was to open an office in the city’s east side, the heart of the Latino community....
MUNICH (AP) — A Turkish delegation will travel to Russia on Monday to discuss the situation in Syria’s Idlib Province amid mounting fears of a humanitarian disaster there, Turkey’s foreign mini...
MUNICH (Reuters) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended on Saturday his nation’s global role despite misgivings in Europe, vowing that Western values would prevail over Russian and Chinese...
MUNICH (AP) — Europe needs to strive for better relations with Russia in the long term, French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday, adding that while he isn’t proposing lifting sanctions, the...
MUNICH (Reuters) — French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday he would allow North Macedonia and Albania to begin talks on joining the European Union if the bloc’s executive gave them a po...
Twitter said Saturday that an official Twitter account of the Olympics and the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) media Twitter account had been hacked and temporarily locked. The accounts w...
TEHRAN (AFP-Jiji) — Iranians vote this week in a crucial parliamentary election that is widely expected to herald the return of conservatives and heap pressure on beleaguered President Hassan Rouhan...
KUALA LUMPUR/SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (Reuters) — An 83-year-old American passenger from a cruise ship that docked in Cambodia after being shunned by other countries has tested positive for the new ...
SANAA (AP) — Strikes killed more than 30 civilians in a mountainous northern Yemeni province Saturday, the U.N. humanitarian chief for the country said, calling the attack “shocking.” The Yem...
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) — China must make every effort to maintain economic and social control as it battles the coronavirus epidemic, and avoid causing panic that could lead to secondary “dis...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — The number of new cases from China’s coronavirus epidemic dropped for a third consecutive day on Sunday, as the World Health Organization chief warned it was “impossible”...
HONG KONG — The Chinese authorities have been mobilizing technology to contain the further spread of the coronavirus, with measures including identifying the travel routes of those infected to quar...
Shortly after Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq, the Tehran-backed Lebanese organization Hezbollah urgently met with Iraqi militia leaders, seeking to unite ...
SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (AP) — Hundreds of cruise ship passengers long stranded at sea by virus fears cheered as they finally disembarked Friday and were welcomed to Cambodia by the nation’s auth...
YOKOHAMA (AP) — Fear. Surprising moments of levity. Soul-crushing boredom.
Life on the Diamond Princess, the cruise ship quarantined in a Japanese port with scores of cases of a new virus, means e...
Moscow, Feb. 13 (Jiji Press)—Russian President Vladimir Putin called on experts Thursday to examine a proposal to have a new constitution include a clause banning the cession of Russian territory. ...
BEIJING (AP) — China on Friday reported another sharp rise in the number of people infected with a new virus, as the death toll neared 1,400.
The National Health Commission said 121 more people h...
BEIRUT (AP) — Throughout Syria’s civil war, Maad al-Khalaf helped other Syrians find shelter in the opposition enclave in the northwest as they fled government military advances around the country...
SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (Reuters) — A cruise ship that spent two weeks at sea after being turned away by five countries over fears that someone aboard might have the coronavirus arrived in Cambodia ...
DENVER (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders’ robust start in the race for the presidential nomination is triggering alarm among congressional Democrats, with many warning that a ticket headed by the self-d...
KABUL (Reuters) — In downtown Kabul, a robotic waitress named “Timea” rolls across a restaurant to serve a pizza and fries to a customer.
Zahra Barakzai, 30, cheerfully receives her meal from th...
JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N. human rights office on Wednesday released a list of more than 100 companies it said are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights by operating in Israeli settlements...
LONDON (Reuters) — Britain’s Big Ben tower at the Houses of Parliament was more badly damaged by German bombs during World War II than originally thought, experts said on Thursday, as the bill for...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party was given a stunning defeat by a regional party Tuesday in elections in the national capital that were seen as a refe...
KABUL (AP) — A suicide bomber targeting a military academy in the Afghan capital on Tuesday killed at least six people, including two civilians and four military personnel, the Interior Ministry sa...
BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) — Syrian government forces seized control of a highway in northwest Syria for the first time since 2012 on Tuesday as they pressed their campaign to eradicate the last rebel...
CAIRO (AFP-Jiji) — Egypt’s population has passed 100 million, its statistics agency said Tuesday, highlighting the threat of overpopulation in a poverty-stricken country where many live in crowde...
TEHRAN (AP) — Hundreds of thousands across Iran marked the anniversary of its 1979 Islamic Revolution on Tuesday amid some of the highest tensions ever between Tehran and the United States in the p...
DUBLIN (AFP-Jiji) — Sinn Fein called on the European Union on Tuesday to back its bid for a united Ireland after a surge in support saw it become the second largest party in Parliament at weekend el...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will shake up his top team on Thursday in his first Cabinet reshuffle since taking Britain out of the European Union, his office said on Tue...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — Queen Elizabeth’s oldest grandchild Peter Phillips and his wife Autumn have separated and will divorce, a spokesman said Tuesday, piling more misery on Britain’s most famous...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s capital of Baghdad awoke on Tuesday to a sight not seen in over a decade — their city covered in snow.
It was a rare moment of respite during which residents took selfies...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — NATO is considering an increase to its training mission in Iraq to relieve the burden on the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State, senior officials and diplomats said on Tu...
CAPE TOWN (AFP-Jiji) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from jail with an address from the spot where the anti-apartheid ...
CARACAS (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido returned home Tuesday, arriving on a commercial flight to the nation’s main airport near Caracas without any major incidents after a risky ...
BERLIN (AP) — Global energy-related emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide remained steady last year, with declines in rich countries balancing out a rise in poor nations, according to data publ...
BEIJING (AP) — China on Wednesday reported another drop in the number of new cases of a viral infection and 97 more deaths, pushing the total dead past 1,100 even as the country remains largely clos...
GENEVA (Reuters) — China’s coronavirus outbreak poses a “very grave threat for the rest of the world” and should be viewed as “Public Enemy Number 1,” the head of the World Health Organiza...
MANCHESTER, N.H (Reuters) — Bernie Sanders narrowly won New Hampshire’s Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday, solidifying his front-runner status in the White House race and dealing a setba...
BERLIN (Reuters) — The woman who had been expected to become Germany’s next chancellor said on Monday she would not run for the top job, succumbing to a scandal involving the far-right and blowin...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a $4.8 trillion election year budget plan on Monday that recycles deep, previously rejected cuts to domestic programs like food stamps, Medica...
BEIJING (AP) — China’s daily death toll from a new virus topped 100 for the first time and pushed the total past 1,000 dead, authorities said Tuesday after leader Xi Jinping visited a health cente...
BEIJING (Reuters) — Chinese President Xi Jinping warned top officials last week that efforts to contain the new coronavirus had gone too far, threatening the country’s economy, sources told Reute...
SEOUL (AP) — A high-profile North Korean defector said Tuesday he’ll run in upcoming parliamentary elections in South Korea as part of his efforts to help South Koreans understand the true nature...
MANILA (Reuters) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has given formal notice to the United States of his decision to scrap a bilateral Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), officials said on Tuesday,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four members of the Chinese military have been charged with breaking into the computer networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency and stealing the personal information of tens...
North Korea continued to enhance its nuclear and ballistic missile programs last year in breach of United Nations sanctions, according to a confidential U.N. report seen by Reuters on Monday. The co...
TAIPEI (Reuters) — Taiwan’s Air Force scrambled for a second day in a row on Monday to intercept Chinese jets that approached the island claimed by Beijing as its own, as tensions between the two...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) — India is set to give final approval to a $2.6 billion deal for military helicopters from U.S. defense firm Lockheed Martin ahead of a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump thi...
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday that a passenger jetliner in Syria was endangered by Israeli fighter jets that used it as a shield while striking the suburbs of Damascus the ...
ANKARA (AP) — Turkey said it retaliated Monday after “intense” shelling by Syrian forces killed five of its soldiers and wounded five others in Syria’s northern Idlib province, a marked escala...
NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AP) — Authorities in northeastern Thailand began releasing bodies to relatives Monday after security forces cornered and killed a soldier who carried out the country’...
BAGHDAD (AP) — The United States has signaled to Iraq its willingness to extend sanctions waivers enabling the country to continue importing vital Iranian gas and electricity imports, three Iraqi o...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. military on Monday disclosed a more than 50% jump in cases of traumatic brain injury (TBI) stemming from Iran’s missile attack on a base in Iraq last month, with t...
MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) — For the past year, Democratic voters have been anxious to settle on a savior capable of defeating President Donald Trump.
The first week of primary balloting was suppos...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s public image in the United States and France worsened sharply last year, according to a Pew Research Center study, after U.S. Preside...
NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (Reuters) — A soldier angry over a property deal gone sour killed at least 29 people and wounded 57 in a rampage that spanned four locations in and around the northeaste...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Subtitle this: “Parasite” is the first non-English language film to win best picture in the 92-year history of the Academy Awards.
Bong Joon Ho’s masterfully devious clas...
BEIJING (AP) — China reported a rise in new virus cases Monday, possibly denting optimism that disease control measures including isolating major cities might be working, while Japan reported dozens...
BEIJING (Jiji Press) — A Japanese man in his 60 who died in Wuhan on Saturday had been infected with the new coronavirus, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Monday. In China, 27 f...
HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — Thousands of people stranded aboard a cruise ship in Hong Kong for five days were allowed to disembark Sunday after its 1,800 crew tested negative for the deadly new coronavir...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — At an Oscars ceremony nearly devoid of acting nominees of color and lacking any women among the contenders for best director, it fell to an Asian filmmaker and his cast to b...
SHANGHAI (AP) — For weeks after the first reports of a mysterious new virus in Wuhan, millions of people poured out of the central Chinese city, cramming onto buses, trains and planes as the first w...
SINGAPORE (AFP-Jiji) — Scientists from the United States to Australia are using new technology in an ambitious, multi-million-dollar drive to develop a vaccine in record time to tackle China’s co...
LONDON/MADRID (Reuters) — A British man who contracted the new coronavirus while attending a conference in Singapore may have led to seven other people catching the disease when he stopped off at a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronted with the threat of trillion-dollar-plus deficits for as far as the eye can see, U.S. President Donald Trump is offering a $4.8 trillion budget plan for the upcoming fis...
At 11 p.m. GMT on Jan. 31, Britain left the European Union, ending its 47 years of membership. To mark the moment, red and blue lights evoking the colors of the United Kingdom’s flag illuminated a...
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) — A Chinese doctor who tried to warn the world about a new coronavirus died of the disease on Friday, prompting an outpouring of sorrow as the death toll passed 630 and B...
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had a spectacularly insensitive reaction to China’s coronavirus epidemic during a recent interview: “I think it will help to accelerate the return of jobs to ...
Drugmakers racing to find a vaccine or effective treatment for the deadly new coronavirus in China cautioned that they have a long way to go.
That runs counter to reports of a supposed “breakthrou...
GENEVA (Reuters) — The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday it was too early to say that China’s coronavirus outbreak was peaking, but noted that the country had recorded its first da...
CHICAGO (AP) — Activist Hoda Katebi rarely takes a break from organizing. As tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalated in recent weeks, she became even busier.
On a recent Sunday afternoon, the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump is over, but it’s far from case closed on Ukraine. A full accounting of Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, stemming in large part fr...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) — A Pegasus Airlines plane flying into Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport skidded off the end of a wet runway and broke into three pieces after landing on Wednesday, killing three...
BANGKOK—To help Southeast Asia address a growing problem with marine pollution from plastic waste, a Japanese research group is planning to launch a full-fledged investigation into the issue in Apr...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate is so far cleaving neatly along party lines in advance of Wednesday’s virtually certain votes to acquit U.S. President Donald Trump on two impeachment charges, wi...
Recently released emergency 911 phone calls about the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant showed witnesses were concerned about the poor visibility due to fog and revive the tragic moment that r...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Nigeria has begun working on the security and information sharing requirements for the lifting of a U.S. travel ban on prospective immigrants from the African nation, Nigeria...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — One person died and 81 others were injured on Tuesday when a truck crammed with Central American migrants flipped over in Southern Mexico on a highway that leads to the Unit...
LONDON (Reuters) — Up to 45 million children in seven developing countries will be immunized against measles in a series of major vaccination campaigns to try to halt a global surge in the viral di...
LA PAZ (Reuters) — Bolivia’s 2020 presidential election will be contested by eight candidates who registered by a Monday deadline to compete in the rerun of a fraught October ballot that sparked ...
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — The top U.S. commander for the Middle East slipped quietly into Iraq on Tuesday, as the Trump administration works to salvage relations with Iraqi leaders and ...
LONDON (Reuters) — The British government will ask the public whether the non-payment of the £154.50 ($198) annual BBC license fee on television-watching households should stop being a criminal of...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that a nationwide vote on constitutional changes he proposed wouldn’t be used to extend his current term in office, but remained tight-...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) — Flash floods and incessant torrential rains in New Zealand’s South Island have left several hundred tourists stranded for days and forced many residents to evacuate their h...
DRANCY, France (AP) — The girls and boys in the room were just a little older than Victor Perahia was when he was finally freed in 1945, his body wracked with tuberculosis and typhus, his mind angu...
DES MOINES, Iowa/LACONIA, N.H. (Reuters) — Pete Buttigieg took a narrow lead on Tuesday in the first batch of long-delayed results from the chaotic Iowa Democratic Party caucuses, and former Vice P...
BEIJING (Reuters) — The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in China rose to 425 as of the end of Monday, up by 64 from the previous day, the country’s National Health Commission said on Tuesd...
TEHRAN (AFP-JIji) — Iranians must have the “right to choose” between different political movements, President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday, as controversy grows over the disqualification of thousa...
TASHKENT (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday pressed Kazakhstan to be wary of Chinese investment and influence, urging the Central Asian nation and others to join calls demanding a...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia has barred an Iranian delegation from an Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Jeddah on Monday, where U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peac...
CAIRO (AP) — Al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen claimed responsibility Sunday for last year’s deadly shooting at the Naval Air Station Pensacola by an aviation student from Saudi Arabia.
The shooter,...
DUBLIN (Reuters) — Irish nationalists Sinn Fein surged ahead of the governing Fine Gael party to draw level at the top of an opinion poll a week before an election that looks set to be a major brea...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. presidential advisor Jared Kushner said Sunday that if Palestinians are unable to meet the conditions of the new Middle East peace plan he crafted, Israel should not ta...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States has taken decisive action to protect Americans from the threat of a fast-moving coronavirus while offering help to China, President Donald Trump said on Sund...
KHAR, Pakistan (AFP-Jiji) — A mortar shell fired from Afghanistan hit a house in a border village in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing seven people who were members of the same family, official...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — France said Sunday it was boosting its military presence in the Sahel by adding a further 600 troops to its 4,500-strong operation in Mali and four other countries in the region....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Standing before lawmakers in the grand-domed Capitol, where his impeachment trial is still underway, U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday night will declare the state of the unio...
ANKARA (AP) — Turkey hit targets in northern Syria, responding to shelling by Syrian government forces that killed at least four Turkish soldiers, the Turkish president said Monday. A Syrian war mo...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Democratic presidential candidates hustled across the state trying to fire up voters and make a last appeal to those struggling to make a fi...
LONDON (Reuters) — The man shot dead after stabbing two people on a busy street in south London on Sunday in what police described as a terrorist incident is Sudesh Amman, a former convict who was r...
MONTREAL (AFP-Jiji) — A clear majority of Canadians feel their country does not have to pay for security for Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle, who have settled in British Columbia. Seventy-...
BEIJING (AP) — The first patients arrived Monday at a specialized hospital built in just 10 days as part of China’s intensive efforts to fight a new virus.
Huoshenshan Hospital and a second faci...
CANBERRA (AP) — Dozens of homes were destroyed overnight in Australia’s southeast but the wildfire threat had diminished by Sunday across New South Wales state and around the national capital Can...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg on Saturday proposed major tax hikes on wealthy Americans and corporations, including a new tax aimed at people earnin...
TEHRAN (AFP-Jiji) — Iran is preparing to launch a new scientific observation satellite in the “coming days,” the head of the country’s national space agency told AFP on Saturday. Manufacture ...
BAGHDAD (AFP-Jiji) — Iraq’s president named former communications minister Mohammad Allawi as the country’s new prime minister on Saturday after an 11th-hour consensus among political blocs, but...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A flurry of newly released emails from scientists and top officials at the federal agency responsible for weather forecasting clearly illustrates the consternation and outright al...
AZAZ, Syria/BEIRUT (Reuters) — Syrian insurgents carried out two suicide car bomb attacks in an assault on pro-government forces in Aleppo on Saturday and opened a new front northeast of the city, ...
NORTH LIBERTY, Iowa (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates promised voters in Iowa on Saturday they would unify the party to take on U.S. President Donald Trump even as they kept up their critici...
MINSK (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday that the United States is willing and able to provide Belarus with 100% of its oil and gas, taking a slap at Russia, which recently cu...
CAIRO (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas threatened Saturday to cut security ties with both Israel and the U.S. in a speech at an Arab League meeting in which he denounced the White House pl...
Vientiane residents who love the natural world and are in the mood for adventure on a getaway weekend should put the Rock Viewpoint on their bucket list. This new visitor attraction is located in the...
A total of 122 people were killed in traffic accidents, while 150 others were injured, during the Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays between January 24 and 29 nationwide. The number of deaths represented ...
At the two-day meeting on South Asia Religious Leaders’ Platform for Children in Paro on Jan. 28, 45 religious leaders of various faiths from the region committed to working with United Nations Chil...
GUJRANWALA, Pakistan (AP) — Terror attacks in Pakistan plummeted by more than 85% over the last decade. It’s a welcome statistic for the country, but one that risks being overshadowed by internati...
KUWAIT CITY (AFP-Jiji) — Some people like them baked, others prefer them dried. Locusts are surprisingly nutritious and considered a delicacy by many in Kuwait, but not everyone is enamored by the ...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — China has asked couples to delay their nuptials from a popular wedding date and families to scale down funeral services to help slow the spread of the country’s viral outbrea...
BEIJING (Reuters) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping offering condolences about the coronavirus outbreak in China, North Korean state news agency KCNA r...
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AFP-Jiji) — The masked woman nervously approaches her target, shuffles into position and then unleashes a flurry of lashes — proving herself as the newest member of the firs...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — Britain on Friday ended almost half a century of European Union membership, making a historic exit after years of bitter arguments to chart its own uncertain path in the world.
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At the Davos meeting, participants interacted and expanded their networks both inside and outside the venue. That may explain why leaders from all over the world travel all the way to the Swiss resort...
LONDON (Reuters) — The United Kingdom finally cast off from the European Union on Friday for an uncertain Brexit future, turning its back after 47 years on the post-World War Two project that soug...
Samsung Electronics Co.’s earnings report and outlook reflect doom and gloom. Many are surprised. Positive signs from chip rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and smartphone stalwart Apple ...
When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his second term in May, I’d hoped for a reset of his government’s fraught relationship with domestic business and global capital. Eight months later,...
BEIJING (AP) — The death toll rose to 170 in the new virus outbreak in China on Thursday as foreign evacuees from the worst-hit region begin returning home under close observation and world health ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Parliament gave final approval to Britain’s divorce from the European Union on Wednesday, paving the way for the country to quit the bloc on Friday after nearly ...
The first flight bringing home Japanese from Wuhan, China, due to the spread of the infectious new type of coronavirus arrived at Haneda Airport on Wednesday. But now the government is in a bind: Whi...
BEIJING (AP) — Countries began evacuating their citizens Wednesday from the Chinese city hardest hit by an outbreak of a new virus that has killed 132 people and infected more than 6,000 on the main...
DAVOS, Switzerland — On Jan. 24, the last day of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, a heated discussion over the use of plastic bottles and alternative materials took pla...
The commander of U.S. Forces in Japan, Lt. Gen. Kevin Schneider, described China’s military expansion as a strategy aimed at “rewriting or changing the international rules-based order” and stre...
TAIPEI — The Taiwan presidential election ended on the night of Jan. 11, when Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu of the Kuomintang party conceded with a phone call to congratulate Tsai Ing-wen of the Democr...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) — A new strain of virus spreading across China has claimed its first victim in Beijing, officials said on Tuesday, as the death toll climbed to 106, the United States warned citiz...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out in anger Saturday at an NPR reporter who accused him of shouting expletives at her after she asked him in an interview about Ukraine...
LONDON (Reuters) — The heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, would like to make an official visit to Iran, he said in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper. Charles, however, declined...
CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) — NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash on a steep hillside in dense morning fog in Southern California on Sunda...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Derek Tai was arrested outside Hong Kong’s Legislative Council building last June, early in the city’s anti-government protests, which have seen millions join demonstration...
MUSCATINE, Iowa (Reuters) — The Des Moines Register newspaper endorsed Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the crowded race for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination late on Saturday,...
BEIJING (AP) — A new virus that started in China and is popping up around Asia and the world hung over the first day of the Year of the Rat.
Lunar New Year festivities were canceled across mainlan...
BEIJING (AP) — China’s most festive holiday began in the shadow of a worrying new virus Saturday as the death toll surpassed 40, an unprecedented lockdown that kept people from traveling was expan...
DUBAI (AP) — Cybersecurity experts said Thursday there were still many unanswered questions from an investigation commissioned by Jeff Bezos that concluded the billionaire’s cellphone was hacked...
The new virus from China has the world on edge because it’s a close cousin to viruses that killed hundreds in separate outbreaks. While it’s too early to tell if this latest threat will prove as ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Teresa Zhan, a pharmacist in Manhattan’s Chinatown, had not seen protective face masks sell out in her 10 years as an employee until last week, when China’s coronavirus arr...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon disclosed on Friday that 34 U.S. service members suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iran’s missile strike this month on an Iraqi airbase, and although half have r...
CHICAGO/LONDON (Reuters) — When a newly organized vaccine research group at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) met for the first time last week, its members had expected to be able to eas...
BEIJING (AP) — As a viral outbreak spread from the central Chinese city of Wuhan this week, the ruling Communist Party’s central political and legal affairs commission issued a stern warning: “W...
China’s happiest city isn’t so happy these days. Wuhan, which branded itself as a Chinese version of Phoenix, is now the epicenter of a SARS-like virus that has sickened hundreds. It’s worth ask...
LONDON (Reuters) — In Davos on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump pledged the United States to a major global project to plant a trillion trees worldwide in the next decade. In almost any previous...
The World Economic Forum’s 50th annual meeting has started in Davos in eastern Switzerland. More commonly known as the Davos conference, this gathering brings together prominent business leaders, h...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Brexit bill passed its final hurdle in Parliament on Wednesday after the House of Lords abandoned attempts to amend it, leaving Britain on course to leave the European Uni...
BEIJING (Reuters) — China is putting on lockdown a city of 11 million people considered the epicenter of the new coronavirus outbreak that has killed 17 and infected nearly 600 people, as health aut...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is coming out Thursday with new visa restrictions aimed at restricting “birth tourism,” in which women travel to the United States to give birth so th...
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.N. experts have demanded an immediate investigation by U.S. and other authorities into allegations that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was involved in a plot t...
YANGON (Reuters) — In a muddy field in western Myanmar, hundreds of Chinese shipping containers fitted with single narrow windows stand in neat lines, empty of the refugees they were designed to hos...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — A new virus that has killed nine people, infected hundreds and already reached the United States could mutate and spread, China warned Wednesday, as authorities scrambled to co...
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) — The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) kicked off on Tuesday in the ski town of Davos.
Greta Thunberg and U.S. President Donald Trump dominated as they...
About 650,000 Vietnamese people were working in more than 40 countries and territories worldwide, according to statistics from the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids ...
TAIPEI (AFP-Jiji) — Taiwan should not be blocked from international bodies such as the World Health Organization, its president said Wednesday, a day after the island confirmed its first case of a ...
She had to leave her home in Laos and travel thousands of miles to the United States when she was just eight years old, so her knowledge of the war that had engulfed Laos many years before was practic...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — Republicans and Democrats battled over summoning high-level White House witnesses Tuesday in a marathon first day of arguments in U.S. President Donald Trump’s trial for a...
SEATTLE (AP) — The United States on Tuesday reported its first case of a new and potentially deadly virus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who returned last week from the ou...
DAVOS, Switzerland — The state minister of culture and sports promoted the government-hosted Japan Cultural Expo (Nihonhaku) at the World Economic Forum annual meeting being held at the Swiss resort...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — An outbreak of a mysterious virus has not deterred millions of people in China from packing into crowded trains as they head home for the Lunar New Year — but some are donning...
VANCOUVER (AP) — The first stage of an extradition hearing for a senior executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei started in a Vancouver courtroom Monday, a case that has infuriated Beijing, caused a ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping have established themselves as the world’s most powerful authoritarian leaders in decades. Now it looks like they want to hang on t...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — China reported 17 new cases of the mysterious SARS-like virus on Sunday, including three in a severe condition, heightening fears ahead of China’s Lunar New Year holiday when ...
TEHRAN (AP) — Iran will send the black box flight recorders from the Ukrainian jetliner that it accidentally shot down to Ukraine for further analysis, an Iranian official said Saturday. Hassan R...
BEIRUT (AP) — Police fired volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets in Lebanon’s capital Saturday to disperse thousands of protesters amid some of the worst rioting since demonstrations against the ...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran’s supreme leader threw his support behind the elite Revolutionary Guards in a rare sermon on Friday after their belated admission that they had accidentally downed an airlin...
BEIJING (Reuters) — Chinese health authorities said on Saturday they had discovered four more cases of pneumonia following an outbreak of what is believed to be a new coronavirus strain in the cent...
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday his government will give 25,000 Canadian dollars (U.S.$19,122) to the families of each of the 57 citizens and 29 permanent resident...
SEOUL (Reuters) — The U.S. ambassador to South Korea drew criticism from the highest levels of government in Seoul on Friday for suggesting that Seoul consult with Washington about the possibility o...
MOSCOW (AFP-Jiji) — With the shock replacement of his government and plans for a constitutional overhaul, President Vladimir Putin has set in motion sweeping changes to Russia’s political order.
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MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Vladimir Putin is putting his trust in an obscure technocrat with little political experience to be prime minister and revive Russia’s flagging economy, as he prepares the co...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — As London’s police try to manage a rise in non-violent street protests aimed at spurring action to tackle climate change, they face a quandary, human rights e...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign policy chief on Friday blamed what he described as “aggressive” U.S. policies for growing global tensions, noting Washington’s reluctance to extend a key nucl...
There are voices lamenting division all over the world — division in Europe and America where populism prevails; in Hong Kong and the Arab world where protests continue; between rich and poor. Japan...
MONTREAL/KUALA LUMPUR/PARIS (Reuters) — Why was the Ukrainian airliner mistakenly shot down near Tehran by Iranian forces last week for the loss of 176 lives even allowed to take off from a country ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate opened the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump with quiet ceremony Thursday — senators standing at their desks to swear an oath of “impartial jus...
LONDON — As the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division departed for the Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran, their divisional commander gave a simple order. All personnel ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on two North Korean entities that it said are involved in sending North Koreans to work abroad in violation of United Nations s...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran said on Tuesday it had arrested people accused of a role in shooting down a Ukrainian airliner and had also detained 30 people involved in protests that have swept the nation...
TAGAYTAY, Philippines (AP) — A volcano near the Philippine capital spewed lava into the sky and trembled constantly Tuesday, possibly portending a bigger and more dangerous eruption, as tens of tho...
GENEV (Reuters) — There may have been limited human-to-human transmission of a new coronavirus in China within families, and it is possible there could be a wider outbreak, the World Health Organiz...
Streaming video service Netflix Inc. will have another chance to snatch the movie industry’s top prize from Hollywood’s traditional film studios at next month’s Academy Awards.
Two Netflix mo...
BOSTON (AP) — A U.S. cybersecurity company says Russian military agents have successfully hacked the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the scandal that led to President Donald Trump’s impeac...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Republican members of the U.S Senate, poised to begin an impeachment trial against U.S. President Donald Trump in the coming days, voiced opposition on Monday to any attempt ...
SANDRINGHAM, England (Reuters) — Queen Elizabeth has reluctantly agreed to her grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan’s wish for a more independent future after the British royal family held cr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump fueled controversy on Monday over his decision to kill Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani by saying “it doesn’t really matter” whether Solei...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia will withdraw 21 cadets receiving military training in the United States following a U.S. investigation into a Saudi officer’s fatal shooting of three American...
PAU, France (AP) — French and West African heads of state vowed to boost their military efforts under a joint command in Africa’s Sahel region, which has seen a surge of deadly violence. They als...
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s first coalition government in the four decades since the return of democracy took shape Monday as 22 Cabinet ministers took their oaths of office.
Questions though remaine...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Protesters took to the streets of Iran to denounce the country’s clerical rulers and riot police deployed to face them in a third day of demonstrations on Monday after authoriti...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli lawmakers on Monday approved the formation of a committee to consider Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request for legal immunity, a major setback for the embattled le...
MOSCOW/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) — Libya’s warring leaders made some progress at indirect peace talks in Moscow on Monday but failed to agree on an open-ended ceasefire to end a nine-month war ov...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleged Monday that Iraqi leaders have told him privately they support the U.S. troop presence, despite public appeals for them to leave....
BANGKOK (AP) — A Chinese visitor to Thailand has been confirmed to be infected with a new strain of coronavirus that has been linked to a pneumonia outbreak in central China, health officials said ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on seven Venezuelan politicians it said led a bid by President Nicolas Maduro to wrest control of the country’s congress from ...
LAHORE (AP) — A Pakistani court on Monday overturned the death sentence given to the country’s former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, a former close U.S. ally in the war against terror.
The L...
HARARE (AFP-Jiji) — Chinese Foreign minister Wang Yi on Monday wrapped up a five-nation Africa tour after talks in Zimbabwe in which he pledged to strengthen cooperation despite a spat over aid fig...
What was going on at Nissan for the last two decades?
With all his complaints about Nissan subordinates and the “depth of deprivation” he endured at the hands of the Japanese justice system, Carl...
A huge plaza, covered almost entirely by a glass roof and capable of holding 2,000 people, will open around the base of the Shinjuku Sumitomo Building, a skyscraper in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on June 1...
DUBAI (Reu-ters) — Iranian protesters and newspapers piled pressure on the country’s leadership and riot police stepped up their presence in Tehran on Sunday after Iran’s military admitted that ...
TAIPEI (AP) — Tsai Ing-wen was reelected as Taiwan’s president by a landslide Saturday in a victory that signaled strong support for her tough stance against China among voters determined to defe...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo congratulated Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on her election on Saturday and lauded her for seeking stability with China “in the face o...
TAIPEI (AP) — Tsai Ing-wen was reelected as Taiwan’s president by a landslide Saturday in a victory that signaled strong support for her tough stance against China among voters determined to defe...
TAIPEI (AP) — Early results from Taiwanese television networks and the Election Commission showed President Tsai Ing-wen leading her closest challenger, Han Kuo-yu of the Nationalist Party, in Sat...
TEHRAN (AP) — Iran announced Saturday that its military “unintentionally” shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed last week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly den...
Australia’s bushfires have given officials plenty of cover to do what they should be doing anyway: ramp up fiscal spending. A lot hinges on whether they can get comfortable with the idea.
An area ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — West Virginia reported unusual cyber activity targeting its election systems. The Texas governor said the state was encountering attempted “attacks” at the rate of “10,000 ti...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — The Pentagon accused the Russian Navy on Friday of aggressive actions in the Arabian Sea after one of its ships very nearly collided with a U.S. Navy destroyer.
The Russia...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronted by persistent questions about his military action in the Middle East, U.S. President Donald Trump and his top officials offered a string of fresh explanations Friday, w...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) — A 61-year-old man has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan after an outbreak of a yet-to-be-identified virus while seven others are in critical condition, t...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) — A 61-year-old man has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan after an outbreak of a yet-to-be-identified virus while seven others are in critical condition, t...
SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korea has received birthday greetings to its leader Kim Jong Un from U.S. President Donald Trump, but their personal relationship is not enough for a return to talks, accord...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Army plans to deploy two specialized task forces to the Pacific capable of conducting information, electronic, cyber and missile operations against Beijing, a Pentag...
BAGHDAD (AP) — For months, Iraqis have watched with deepening anxiety as tensions between Iran-backed militias and U.S. forces soared, fearing their long-beleaguered country would turn into a battl...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — Prince Harry and wife, Meghan, say their retreat from the royal family will give them “financial independence” — but they will retain many benefits while being free to cap...
TAIPEI (AP) — Further deadlock and heightened pressure from China is the likely outcome if Taiwan’s independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen wins a second term this weekend, as is widely predi...
EDEN, Australia (AP) — Thousands of people fled their homes and helicopters dropped supplies to towns at risk of nearby wildfires as hot, windy conditions Friday threatened already fire-ravaged sou...
TEHRAN (AP) — Iranian newspapers proclaimed the country’s attack on U.S. forces in Iraq to be “a dark night for Americans,” and Washington’s “first admission of failure in history.” On ...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — The British monarchy scrambled Thursday to find urgent “workable solutions” for Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, after their bombshell decision to quit front-line duties c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a dramatic rollback of environmental oversight, U.S. President Donald Trump took action Thursday to clear the way and speed up development of a wide range of commercial project...
For months now, Venezuelan politics has been trapped in toxic stalemate. Two men claim the same job — congressionally-appointed interim president Juan Guaido, with all the street cred, and de facto ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) — The window is closing on the chance to avert a pension meltdown that will slash the retirement benefits of more than a million U.S. workers.
Lawmakers in Washington have been wo...
TRIPOLI (AFP-Jiji) — Europe and North Africa have launched a diplomatic offensive to try to prevent Libya, with the increased involvement of international players in its conflict, from turning into...
WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) — The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to stop President Donald Trump from further military action against Iran as the Middle East remained tense after t...
MADRID (Reuters) — Spain’s Supreme Court said on Thursday it had told the European Parliament that Catalan separatist leader Oriol Junqueras will not be released from prison to claim his seat as ...
SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI (Reuters) — Foreign diplomats visited India-ruled Kashmir on Thursday for the first time since New Delhi stripped the region of special status in August, but some European nation...
SEOUL (AFP-Jiji) — A former prosecutor who was tried following groping allegations that fueled South Korea’s #MeToo movement walked free on Thursday after his conviction was quashed by the countr...
BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s Vice Premier Liu He, head of the country’s negotiation team in Sino-U.S. trade talks, will sign a “Phase 1” deal in Washington next week, the commerce ministry s...
JAKARTA/LONDON (Reuters) — As Indonesia celebrated its National Heroes’ Day last year, official military social media accounts lavished praise on Corporal Yunanto Nugroho for the “myriad awards ...
WASHINGTON/MONTREAL (Reuters) — Several major airlines said on Wednesday they were rerouting flights to avoid airspace over Iraq and Iran after the Federal Aviation Administration banned U.S. carri...
After a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani last week, America braced itself for the unexpected: The Department of Homeland Security issued an advisory warning that Iran may launch...
TEHRAN (AP) — Iran struck back at the United States early Wednesday for killing a top Revolutionary Guards commander, firing a series of ballistic missiles at two military bases in Iraq housing Amer...
DUBAI/KIEV (Reuters) — A Ukrainian airliner crashed soon after taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport on Wednesday, killing all 176 people aboard, Iran’s state television and Ukraine’...
BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — At least 56 people were killed in a stampede in Iran on Tuesday as tens of thousands of mourners packed streets for the funeral of an Iranian military commander whose...
BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States has no plans to pull its troops out of Iraq, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday, following reports by Reuters and other media of an Am...
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping lauded Kiribati on Monday for “standing on the right side of history” during his first meeting with the Pacific island nation’s leader since it sev...
BUSHEKELI, Rwanda (AP) — It was something, the silence. Nothing but the puff of her breath and the scuff of her slip-on shoes as Madeleine Mukantagara walked through the fields to her first patient ...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran announced on Sunday it would abandon limitations on enriching uranium, taking a further step back from commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with six major powers, but it would c...
CHICAGO/DIMMITT, Texas (Reuters) — Across snow-covered North Dakota, U.S. farmers are stuck with fields full of weather-damaged corn — a crop they planted after the U.S.-China trade war killed th...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran announced on Sunday it would abandon limitations on enriching uranium, taking a further step back from commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with six major powers, but it would ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States has targeted 52 Iranian sites that it would strike if Iran attacks Americans or U.S. assets in response to a U....
DUBAI (Reuters) — The body of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. military strike, was returned to Iran on Sunday and driven through thousands of mourners,...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) — The United States-led military coalition fighting Islamic State said early on Sunday that there were two attacks near Iraqi bases housing its troops on Saturday night but that n...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) — China has replaced the head of its Hong Kong Liaison Office, the most senior mainland political official based in the Chinese-controlled territory, following more than six mon...
LONDON (Reuters) — As a new decade begins, the first century of the new millennium will already be a fifth over. The last 10 years have seen the world’s most powerful states increasingly at logger...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A tragic airline crash with far-reaching consequences, cataclysmic cyclones that may be a harbinger of the future, the death of an African icon and a new leader who won the Nobel...
BEIRUT (AFP-Jiji) — Former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, who skipped bail in Japan and fled to Beirut, is due to be summoned by Lebanon’s public prosecutor this week, an official said Friday....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States is sending nearly 3,000 additional troops to the Middle East from the 82nd Airborne Division as a precaution amid rising threats to American forces in the r...
