Dozens of people have died in Canada amid an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed temperature records.Police in British Columbia have responded to almost 70 sudden...

About 10 million Australians have been ordered into lockdown as Covid-19 spreads across the country, after Brisbane today became the fourth major city to issue...

President Joe Biden will look to sell voters on the economic benefits of the $973 billion infrastructure package while in Wisconsin on Tuesday, hoping to...

Indonesia's Covid-19 surge is on the edge of a "catastrophe" as the more infectious Delta variant dominates transmission and chokes hospitals in Southeast Asia's worst...

Indonesia's government will wait until COVID-19 cases fall significantly before opening Bali to foreign tourists, the country's tourism minister said in an interview.The corona virus...

Chinese pro-democracy students in Australia experience harassment and fear punishment if they speak out on sensitive issues, a new report says.Human Rights Watch found such...

The Ethiopian government has declared a ceasefire in the Tigray region - eight months after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops to oust its leadership.The...

The United Nations Human Rights Council has urged global action including reparations to "make amends" for racism against people of African descent.Its new report also...

Israel has serious reservations about the Iran nuclear deal being put together in Vienna, new foreign minister Yair Lapid told his American counterpart, as he...

All of Italy became a mask-free, "low-risk" zone for coronavirus Monday (Jun 28), marking a dramatic milestone for the first European country to be hit...

Marianela Rojas huddles in prayer with fellow migrants after trudging across a slow-flowing stretch of the Rio Grande and nearly collapsing when she stepped on...

Britain's new health minister Sajid Javid said on Monday he wanted the remaining COVID-19 social restrictions to be lifted as soon as possible. Javid is...

Confronted with a sharp rise in corona virus cases, the Thai capital on Sunday announced a ban on indoor dining and gatherings of more than...

Japan and the United States are making arrangements for First Lady Jill Biden to visit Japan for the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, but President Biden...

Rescuers digging through the rubble of a Florida beachfront condo sought to reassure families that they were doing as much as possible to find missing...

As rescue teams dug through twisted metal and concrete in a desperate search for survivors from a collapsed condominium on Sunday, residents of the beachfront...

Malaysia will extend a national lockdown beyond Monday (Jun 28) to curb the spread of COVID-19, state news agency Bernama reported on Sunday, citing Prime...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Israel's new top diplomat Yair Lapid on Sunday (Jun 27), in the United States' first face-to-face meeting with...

The Australian state of New South Wales has reported 30 new Covid cases on the second day of Greater Sydney's two-week lockdown.An expanded lockdown now...

Colombia's President Ivan Duque has said a helicopter he was on was struck by multiple bullets when flying through the country's Catatumbo region towards metropolis...

U.S. President Joe Biden met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his former political foe, Abdullah Abdullah, on Friday at the White House where he called...

Philippine flags were lowered to half-mast on government buildings Friday as persons prearranged at Manila's Church of the Gesu to pay their last respects to...

Sydney and some surrounding areas will enter a difficult two-week COVID-19 lockdown on Saturday as authorities battle to control a fast-spreading outbreak of the highly...

The death toll in the partial collapse of a high-rise apartment building in Florida has climbed by one to five, an area official said Saturday...

Gunfire has hit a helicopter carrying the president of Colombia since it flew near the border with Venezuela.President Iván Duque was flying toward Cúcuta in...

They tried grocery giveaways and lotteries for new cars and apartments. But an ambitious plan of vaccinating 30 million Russians by mid-June still has fallen...

The world's highest luxury hotel, boasting a restaurant on the 120th floor and 24-hour personal butler service, has opened in Shanghai to guests with deep...

President Joe Biden has announced a hard-earned bipartisan agreement on a pared-down infrastructure plan that could make a start his top legislative priority and validate...

Thai prisoners rolled up their sleeves to get corona virus jabs on Friday (Jun 25) as the kingdom seeks to tackle a mass infection outbreak...

The US white ex-police officer convicted of murdering African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 has been sentenced to 22 years and half...

The Red Cross needed faster vaccine rollouts in vulnerable Pacific island nations Wednesday as an archive COVID-19 surge threatens to overload Fiji's health system. Fiji's...

After enjoying nearly four months without any community transmission of the corona virus, New Zealanders were on edge Wednesday after health authorities said an infectious...

Five years on from Britain's shock decision to give up europe, the wounds opened by Brexit have yet to heal, and analysts say its far-reaching...

The COVID-19 pandemic hit Italy especially hard, killing more than 127,000 people and sending the European Union's third-largest economy right into a devastating tailspin.Yet out...

Hong Kong's pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper will minimize publishing Thursday, following last week's arrest of five editors and executives and the freezing of $2.3 million...

President Joe Biden has unveiled an idea which includes funding more police to combat a nationwide surge in homicides, which he blamed on lax gun...

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that persons who weren't vaccinated against COVID-19 or didn't have immunity will be unable to work in all workplaces in...

Australia's government has lashed out after a US report claimed it hadn't done enough to protect the Great Barrier Reef from climate change.UN body Unesco...

The Philippine president has threatened to order the arrest of Filipinos who refuse COVID-19 vaccination and told them to leave the united states if they...

The administration of US President Joe Biden on Monday announced its plan for the next tranche of 55 million Covid vaccine doses it plans to...

Foreign governments are "beautifying" acts that endanger national security in Hong Kong if they criticize the recent crackdown on a pro-democracy newspaper, the first choice...

Britain is focusing on easing travel restrictions for the fully vaccinated to permit people to take pleasure from a summer holiday on Europe's beaches however...

Colombia's death toll from Covid-19 passed the 100,000 mark on Monday with a new 24-hour record of almost 650 deaths, medical ministry said.After three weeks...

Numerous poorer countries acquiring Covid-19 vaccines through a worldwide sharing scheme don't have enough doses to keep programs, the World Health Organization has said.WHO senior...

The Kremlin said on Monday it didn't expect america to avoid trying to "contain" Russia after a summit of their leaders, and that it had...

A Chinese diplomat in France has expressed concern over the recent shift of military focus of the Europe on the Indo-Pacific region, which is reported...

After not securing a COVID-19 vaccination in the home, Indonesian Muhammad Risqy Putra booked a vacation to america to get inoculated there on his first...

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Monday he believed the Euro 2020 final should not be held in Wembley given the renewed surge in coronavirus...

The colorful former speaker of Britain's House of Commons John Bercow said he has left the conservatives to join the opposition labor party, saying the...

Israel condemned on Sunday (Jun 20) the election of hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi as Iranian president, saying his will be a "regime of brutal hangmen"...