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Jul 15, 2020
An appeals court crimped the E.U.'s aggressive antitrust enforcement effort against the tech giant.
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Jul 15, 2020
It's been five months — a bit more than half the length of an average pregnancy — since the WHO declared the coronavirus a pandemic.
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Jul 15, 2020
A seafarers organization says an oil tanker sought by the U.S. over allegedly trying to cirvcuvent sanctions on Iran was hijacked on July 5 off the coast of the United Arab Emirates
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Jul 15, 2020
Members of Poland's LGBT community say they are feeling angry and afraid after President Andrzej Duda won re-election in a divisive and bitter campaign that cast their rights movement as a dangerous "ideology."
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Jul 15, 2020
As India's coronavirus caseload approaches 1 million, lockdowns are being reimposed in parts of the country as governments try to shield the health system from being overwhelmed
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Jul 15, 2020
Cars have become mobile markets in Zimbabwe where enterprising residents are selling goods from their vehicles to cope with economic hardships caused by the coronavirus
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Jul 15, 2020
The New York Times says it will transfer some of its staff out of Hong Kong because of the uncertainties about practicing journalism in the Chinese territory under its new security law
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Jul 15, 2020
The best referees are largely invisible, keeping order unobtrusively and letting the players decide the game
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Jul 15, 2020
Virus restrictions once lifted are being reimposed, shutting businesses and curbing people's social lives as communities try to curb a disease resurgence before it spins out of control
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Jul 15, 2020
Nissan is rolling out an electric crossover vehicle, the Japanese automaker's first major all-new model since getting embroiled in the scandal surrounding its former chairman, Carlos Ghosn
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Jul 15, 2020
Young activists and localist candidates dominated Hong Kong's unofficial pro-democracy primaries in which hundreds of thousands of people voted despite warnings the elections could violate the new security law
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Jul 15, 2020
Rescuers are searching for 23 people still missing after heavy rains in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province swelled rivers and send floodwaters, mud and debris across roads and into thousands of homes
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Jul 15, 2020
The city government of the South Korean capital will launch an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct surrounding late Mayor Park Won-soon, who was found dead after one of his secretaries filed a complaint claiming yearslong abuse
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Jul 15, 2020
"These election results are a death blow to Poland's liberal democracy."
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Jul 15, 2020
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is traveling to three of Mexico's most violent states this week to combat what many have seen as a "hands-off" strategy toward drug cartels that has exacerbated tensions with state governors
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Jul 14, 2020
A flash flood in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province left at least 16 people dead and 23 are still missing
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Jul 14, 2020
On Tuesday, the government said face coverings would be mandatory in all shops — and shirkers could be fined $125.
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Jul 14, 2020
Soon after arriving in Mexico in 2000, British journalist Jo Tuckman reported on what many Mexicans could scarcely have imagined: the election defeat of the political party that had governed autocratically for 71 years
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Jul 14, 2020
On Tuesday, the government announced masks would be mandatory in shops.
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Jul 14, 2020
A top Canadian government health official says a longer stretch of home games might help the Blue Jays to get approval to play in Toronto amid the pandemic
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Jul 14, 2020
A Taliban car bombing and gun attack in northern Afghanistan left 11 Afghan intelligence workers dead and at least 60 civilians wounded.
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Jul 14, 2020
Thousands of Israelis have demonstrated outside the official residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling on the embattled Israeli leader to resign as he faces a trial on corruption charges and grapples with a deepening coronavirus crisis
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Jul 14, 2020
Britain and France have moved to make face coverings compulsory in more places as they both try to get their economies going while at the same time seeking to prevent further outbreaks of the coronavirus pandemic
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Jul 14, 2020
Hungarian lawmakers have passed a resolution calling on Prime Minister Viktor Orban's populist government to ensure that the European Union's economic stimulus plan fairly distributes funds among richer and poorer countries and doesn't tie allocations to rule-of-law provisions
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Jul 14, 2020
Ethiopia is entering its third week without internet service for almost everyone after days of deadly unrest
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Jul 14, 2020
The move comes amid a broader deterioration in relations between Beijing and Washington.
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Jul 14, 2020
The British action is a major win for the Trump administration, which has been pressing allies to shun the Chinese firm over security concerns.
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Jul 14, 2020
Officials say six more people have died in floods and mudslides in northeastern India's Assam state, taking the death toll to 77 from more than two weeks of heavy rains that caused one of Asia's largest rivers to overflow
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Jul 14, 2020
Israel's Justice Ministry has confirmed there is no footage of the shooting of an autistic Palestinian man who was killed by Israeli police, saying security cameras in the area were not operating properly at the time
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Jul 14, 2020
A Somali official says a United Nations cargo plane carrying humanitarian aid has crashed at an airport in central Somalia and the three crew members survived
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Jul 14, 2020
A flash flood in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province has left at least 15 people dead and an unknown number missing
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Jul 14, 2020
The move, whose impact is expected to be minimal, comes amid a broader deterioration of relations between Beijing and Washington.
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Jul 14, 2020
Japan's defense minister says officials have discovered "a number of problems" with U.S. military measures to guard against the coronavirus among service members stationed in Japan after 95 Marines tested positive at several bases on the southern island of Okinawa
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Jul 14, 2020
Heavy flooding is worsening in parts of Bangladesh, with over 1 million villagers marooned or leaving their homes for higher ground along with their cattle and other belongings
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Jul 14, 2020
Pakistan says it will resume a nationwide anti-polio campaign next week, months after the drive against this crippling children's disease was halted because the coronavirus overwhelmed the country
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Jul 14, 2020
Britain's government is demanding people wear face coverings in shops as it has sought to clarify its message after weeks of prevarication amid the COVID-19 pandemic
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Jul 14, 2020
Authorities in Thailand are urging almost 1,900 people to quarantine themselves and get tested for the coronavirus after a breakdown in screening allowed two foreigners with the disease to pose a risk to public health
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Jul 14, 2020
Maduro's government says Franklin Durán was working with the U.S. and Colombia to overthrow him. The opposition suggests he was Maduro's plant.
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Jul 14, 2020
The liftoff of the United Arab Emirates' Mars orbiter has been postponed until Friday due to bad weather at the Japanese launch site
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Jul 14, 2020
New satellite imagery shows the reservoir behind Ethiopia's disputed hydroelectric dam beginning to fill, but an analyst says it's likely due to seasonal rains instead of government action
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Jul 14, 2020
Security law sharply alters the environment in the Asian financial center, as companies weigh whether to pull out or compromise on free speech principles.
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Jul 14, 2020
Hundreds of thousands of foreign residents of the United Arab Emirates are struggling to return to the country after a lockdown over the coronavirus
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Jul 14, 2020
Politicians and public health leaders have publicly committed to equitably sharing any coronavirus vaccine that works, but the top global initiative to make that happen may allow rich countries to reinforce their own stockpiles while making fewer doses available for poor ones
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Jul 14, 2020
New details have emerged of a possible 25-year-long strategic pact between Iran and China.
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Jul 14, 2020
Duda, an ally of Trump, won 51 percent of the vote.
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Jul 14, 2020
Japan's government says China is pushing harder to make territorial claims in the regional seas and even using the coronavirus pandemic to expand its influence and take strategic superiority
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Jul 14, 2020
New details have emerged of a possible 25-year-long strategic pact between Iran and China.
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Jul 14, 2020
The announcement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo came hours after China imposed sanctions on four U.S. officials, including Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, for "interfering in China's internal affairs."
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Jul 13, 2020
The measures open another front in the tit-for-tat hostilities.
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Jul 13, 2020
Suriname's newly elected parliament has chosen a former police chief as the country's president to replace Desiree "Desi" Bouterse, who faces a murder conviction at home and a drug smuggling sentence abroad
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Jul 13, 2020
A lawyer for the alleged victim said she filed a complaint against Mayor Park Won-soon last week.
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Jul 13, 2020
Brazil's government has fired an official at the national space agency Inpe whose department is responsible for satellite monitoring of the Amazon rainforest, just three days after the release of June deforestation data reflected a continued increase in degradation
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Jul 13, 2020
After 35 years of civilian-led democracy, President Jair Bolsonaro has created the most militarized Brazilian government since the fall of the country's army-led dictatorship
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Jul 13, 2020
The official toll of people who have vanished during a 14-year epidemic of criminal violence includes hundreds of Americans.
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Jul 13, 2020
The Trump administration is escalating its actions against China by stepping squarely into one of the most sensitive regional issues dividing them and outright rejecting nearly all of Beijing's significant maritime claims in the South China Sea
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Jul 13, 2020
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has apologized for not recusing himself from a Cabinet decision to award a contract to a charity his family did paid work for
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Jul 13, 2020
Andrzej Duda, an ally of U.S. President Trump, won 51.2 percent of the vote.
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Jul 13, 2020
A lawyer for the victim said she filed a complaint against Mayor Park Won-soon last week. Park's death ended any police scrutiny of him. The lawyer, nevertheless, called for "a proper investigation to find the truth."
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Jul 13, 2020
Health authorities in Thailand are seeking to trace the local contacts of two recent foreign arrivals in the country who were infected with the coronavirus and may have violated quarantine rules
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Jul 13, 2020
Final preparations for the launch from Japan of the United Arab Emirates' first Mars mission are underway, but there is a chance of a delay because of bad weather
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Jul 13, 2020
Sudanese activists say security forces violently broke up a protest camp in the war-scarred Darfur region, killing at least protester and wounding a dozen others, including four children
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Jul 13, 2020
Somalia's police say the country's army chief has survived an assassination attempt which took place when a suicide car bomber targeted his convoy in the Somali capital Monday
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Jul 13, 2020
The United Nations says the ranks of the world's hungry grew by 10 million last year and warns that the coronavirus pandemic could push as many as 130 million more people into chronic hunger this year
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Jul 13, 2020
The International Monetary Fund says the Middle East's energy producers are expected to earn $270 billion less in oil revenue compared to last year
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Jul 13, 2020
Bahrain's Court of Cassation has reinstated two death sentences it had previously overturned after evidence of torture in extracting confessions came to light.
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Jul 13, 2020
The retaliation opens up another front in the tit-for-tat hostilities between Washington and Beijing.
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Jul 13, 2020
The CEO of BT has warned it may take a decade to remove Huawei equipment from Britain's telecom infrastructure if the UK government caves in to US pressure to dump the telecom provider from its networks
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Jul 13, 2020
With an economy based on globalization, Dubai has been hit in a way that oil-rich Abu Dhabi has not.
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Jul 13, 2020
Israeli police and Jerusalem municipal officials have scuffled with protesters and dismantled tents set up by demonstrators outside the prime minister's residence
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Jul 13, 2020
Malaysia's top court has heard a rare contempt charge by the attorney general against a popular online news portal for publishing readers' comments that criticized the judiciary, a move slammed by media groups as a clampdown on press freedom
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Jul 13, 2020
Brexit moved back to the front-burner of British politics on Monday with the government launching a new public information campaign to prepare the nation for departure
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Jul 13, 2020
Indians are the second-largest group of international students in the United States.
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Jul 13, 2020
The organizers of a vigil commemorating China's bloody 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square have appeared in a Hong Kong court on charges of inciting others to participate in an unlawful assembly
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Jul 13, 2020
Police say a French man accused of molesting over 300 Indonesian children has died after apparently trying to kill himself in detention
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Jul 13, 2020
Duda, an ally of Trump, won 51.2 percent of the vote.
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Jul 13, 2020
A Facebook group created to let Italian families mourn their coronavirus dead has turned into an activist group that is providing testimony and evidence to prosecutors investigating whether any crimes contributed to Italy's COVID-19 toll
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Jul 13, 2020
More than 100 allegations of sexual harassment, assault and rape against a former student at a top university have roiled Egypt for the past two weeks
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Jul 13, 2020
Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South African anti-apartheid figures Nelson and Winnie Mandela, has died aged 59
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Jul 13, 2020
"Its conversion into a mosque is an all too appropriate symbol for the rise of right-wing nationalism and religious chauvinism around the world today."
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Jul 12, 2020
"Racism won't be tolerated," British police said, after Crystal Palace's Wilfried Zaha revealed an attempt by an Aston Villa fan to upset him before a match.
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Jul 12, 2020
Protesters have ransacked an office belonging to President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's political party
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Jul 12, 2020
If reelected, Duda could help Poland's right-wing ruling party to continue its hard-line policies.
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Jul 12, 2020
Taliban commanders and fighters in eastern Afghanistan speak not of peace but of toppling the Afghan government in Kabul, and they boast of a hard-fought "military victory" over American forces in the country.
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Jul 12, 2020
The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have agreed on an agenda for face-to-face talks in Brussels on Thursday aimed at ending the deadlock in negotiations on normalizing their relations
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Jul 12, 2020
All 176 passengers were killed in the Jan. 8 incident. Iranian authorities took days to admit its forces had fired an antiaircraft missile at the plane shortly after it took off from Imam Khomeini International Airport.
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Jul 12, 2020
Kosovo's president is going to The Hague to prove to the prosecutors investigating war crimes allegedly committed amid a 1998-1999-armed conflict in Kosovo between ethnic Albanian separatists and Serbia he has broken no international law
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Jul 12, 2020
Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has formally dissolved the country's constitutional court, meeting a key demand of protesters who have taken to the streets in recent days
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Jul 12, 2020
Standing on the podium to celebrate his latest win, Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton raised a clenched right fist
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Jul 12, 2020
Countries in Eastern Europe are facing rising waves of coronavirus infections, leading to riots in Serbia, mandatory face masks in Croatia and travel bans or quarantines imposed by Hungary
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Jul 12, 2020
After the Civil War, thousands of defeated Southerners came to Brazil to self-exile in a country that still practiced slavery. For decades, their descendants have thrown a massive party that now attracts thousands.
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Jul 12, 2020
The U.N. migration agency says Libya's coast guard has intercepted a boat with 83 Europe-bound migrants overnight
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Jul 12, 2020
A British official has suggested that people in England won't have to wear masks in shops
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Jul 12, 2020
Confronted by surging hospitalizations due to COVID-19, South Africa is considering a return to tighter restrictions to combat the disease, which officials say may soon overwhelm the country's health system
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Jul 12, 2020
Pandemic clampdowns hobble protests seeking greater police accountability.
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Jul 12, 2020
Pandemic clampdowns hobble protests seeking greater police accountability.
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Jul 12, 2020
The family members who tested positive include husband-and-wife actors Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, and their 8-year-old daughter.
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Jul 12, 2020
Countries in Eastern Europe are facing rising waves of coronavirus infections, leading to new restrictive measures such as the mandatory use of face masks in Croatia and travel bans or quarantines to be imposed by Hungary
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Jul 12, 2020
All 176 passengers were killed in the Jan. 8 incident. Iranian authorities took days to admit its forces had fired an antiaircraft missile at the plane shortly after it took off from Imam Khomeini International Airport.
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Jul 12, 2020
The Philippines has renewed its call for compliance with a 4-year-old arbitration ruling that invalidated China's vast claims in the disputed South China Sea on historical grounds "without any possibility of compromise."
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Jul 12, 2020
Before covid, Japan's matchmakers arranged events and meetings for mate seekers. It's now video chat windows.
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