U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock is warning that “a campaign of destruction” is taking place in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray province.

The Biden administration is stepping up its condemnation of the coup in Myanmar, demanding that military authorities stop their brutal crackdown on pro-democracy proteste...

British police say they will not launch a criminal investigation into the journalist Martin Bashir over his 1995 interview with Princess Diana.

Artists at one of Madrid’s best-known flamenco bars have put on a final outdoor show marking its closure after 140 years due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions that have s...

New polling from the Pew Research Center shows strong negative attitudes among Americans toward China, with almost nine out of 10 adults seeing the country as a competito...

A shipment of over a quarter million AstraZeneca vaccines destined for Australia has been blocked from leaving the European Union in the first use of an export control sy...

Footage of a brutal crackdown on protests against a coup in Myanmar has unleashed outrage and calls for a stronger international response.

Regulators in the U.K. and four other countries plan to fast-track the development of modified COVID-19 vaccines to ensure drugmakers are able to move swiftly in targetin...

People in Brussels are craving open spaces in times of pandemic restrictions and often end up in overcrowded parks where social distancing is impossible.

The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar says the generals who have seized power in the Southeast Asian nation indicated they don’t fear renewed sanctions, though they are “ver...

Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires are the two biggest cities in each of the neighboring South American countries and they're headed in opposite directions in the COVID-19 pandem...

Recent satellite imagery indicate North Korea may be trying to extract plutonium to make more nuclear weapons.

Hungary’s governing party has pulled out of its conservative group in the European Union’s legislature following years of conflict over the rule of law and European value...

Pope Francis is pushing ahead with the first papal trip to Iraq despite rising coronavirus infections.

A Paris court held a hearing in a class-action effort to hold French health authorities and companies accountable after thousands of people with the virus died in nursing...

Slow off the blocks in the race to immunize its citizens against COVID-19, Germany faces an unfamiliar problem: a glut of vaccines and not enough arms to inject them into...

Dutch police say an early-morning blast caused by a “homemade device” smashed windows at a coronavirus testing center in a small town north of Amsterdam.

The Indian Ocean island nation of the Seychelles had one of the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine rollouts, and this month it aims to again break ground by reaching so-calle...

Myanmar security forces were seen firing slingshots at protesters, chasing them down and even brutally beating an ambulance crew in video showing a dramatic escalation of...

South Korea’s central bank says the country’s economy shrank for the first time in 22 years in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic destroyed service industry jobs and depres...

Australia’s attorney-general has denied having sexual contact with a 16-year-old who had accused him of raping her 33 years ago and says he will not resign as the nation’...

Guatemala’s Congress has begun reshaping the country’s highest court, selecting a new magistrate and an alternate in decisions that could have grave consequences for the ...

The chief European Union diplomat in Venezuela has left the country, a week after the government of Nicolás Maduro declared her persona non grata and ordered her expulsio...

Italian health officials say the variant of the coronavirus discovered in Britain is prevalent among the country's infected schoolchildren and warn that the curve of cont...