Recent confrontational action by China toward regional rivals Taiwan and India are examples of the Communist regime in Beijing challenging the new American ...
The Philippines has protested a new Chinese law that authorizes its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels and destroy other countries' structures on islands it ...
Over the weekend, China sent large numbers of military aircraft into the southwestern portion of the Taiwan air defense identification zone, near the strategic ...
A wreath is laid at the monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, on Jan. 27, 2021, as part of world observances of the 76th anniversary ...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day this year feels a bit like a precipice; a two-way mirror. On one side, a history we must vow to never forget and never ...
Today, we commemorate the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a day designated by the United Nations in 2005 as International Holocaust Remembrance ...
The White House has temporarily stopped arms deals negotiated under the Trump administration with several Middle Eastern nations, including the United Arab ...
Washington (CNN) The Biden administration has paused arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates as it conducts a wider review of agreements ...
Тhe Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is used to getting the benefit of the doubt in Washington, D.C. By virtue of its heft in the global oil market and its 75-year strategic ...
The Biden administration has imposed a temporary freeze on U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia and is scrutinizing purchases by the United Arab Emirates as it ...
LONDON — After Prime Minister Boris Johnson said his government had truly done "everything we could" to save the 100,000 lives taken by the coronavirus so ...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic underlined the benefits of being part of the United Kingdom as he prepares to visit ...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson effectively extended a national coronavirus lockdown on Wednesday after ruling out a return to school for most students ...
England's coronavirus lockdown is set to be extended for at least three more weeks, with schools not reopening until the second week of March at the earliest, ...
In his first news conference since being confirmed as secretary of State, Antony Blinken expressed "deep concern" over the treatment of Alexei Navalny and the ...
Congressional Republicans quietly grumbled for four years that former President Donald Trump's passive rhetoric about Russia didn't match the severity of his ...
Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader who returned to Russia last week after recovering in Berlin from an attempt on his life involving a military nerve agent, ...
Putin is an aggressive cancer requiring decisive intervention. After years of bashing Trump's devotion to him, time for Biden and Democrats to deliver.
The feud between the European Union and AstraZeneca is continuing after AstraZeneca reportedly delayed the delivery of millions of vaccines the two had ...
As the global number of coronavirus cases passed 100 million — a quarter of them in the United States — an increasingly acrimonious battle between the ...
Europe was not prepared for the pandemic, but it must now learn lessons and use all its financial and political resources, says Guntram Wolff, director of the ...
As vaccine-makers struggle to keep up with the E.U.'s demand to vaccinate 450m, supply chain snafus and empty promises have left many fearful they won't get ...
Violence erupted across India's capital city of New Delhi on Tuesday when thousands of farmers protesting the government's agricultural reform bills rode ...
NEW DELHI — The violent outburst had receded, the farmers and their tractors had cleared the streets of New Delhi, but a large security presence still remained ...
As many as 100,000 people are projected to die of the coronavirus in the first month of President Joe Biden's tenure, raising the U.S. death toll above half a ...
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that she doubts the U.S. will return to normal after 100 days of the ...
(CNN) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it does not know if the new Covid-19 variants are causing more cases of a rare ...
Updated at 2:24 p.m. ET. At the first briefing by the Biden administration's COVID-19 response team on Wednesday, the message was clear: Science and ...
Tonight: We have a cold night ahead. Temperatures drop to a few degrees below zero by morning. The usual colder spots like Waterloo will drop to 10 below ...
After yesterday's east flow and persistant drizzle, fog has settled into the region today and will tough to scour out. Eventually the fog will lift and skies will remain ...
Good Evening…. Skies remain mostly cloudy tonight. Additional ocean-effect light snow showers and flurries are possible later Tonight, mainly in eastern MA.
China, along with the rest of the world, is continuing to fight against the spread of the coronavirus, so the country has introduced a new way of detecting the virus.
SEOUL — Months-long lockdowns. Entire city populations herded through the streets for mandatory testing. The people of China could be forgiven for thinking ...
In America, getting citizens to just wear masks—for the love of God—has been an impossibly big ask. As such, the country is now the world leader in just about ...
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam told CNBC she's "optimistic" the new U.S. administration will give her government "a fair hearing" with regards to the city's ...
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam gave backing to HSBC Holdings Plc's presence in the city as the lender has come under increased criticism over ...
The persistence of one vocal group provides Beijing with an argument that the city continues to be an intermediary between China and the democratic world.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper's Phase 3 modified stay at home order, which includes a curfew, was set to expire Jan. 29. Cooper's press briefing on ...
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina's modified stay-at-home order will continue until at least the end of February. Gov. Roy Cooper most recently extended the ...
Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday extended a nightly curfew, a moratorium on evictions and rules allowing restaurants and bars to serve mixed drinks to go as ...
Gov. Cooper is extending the modified Stay-At-Home order until Feb. 28 and plans to keep the eviction moratorium and order allowing to-go mixed drinks in ...
House Speaker Tim Moore (R) wrote an email to members of the health oversight committee urging them to hold another hearing on vaccine distribution "as ...
Jakarta, Indonesia Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano on Java island erupted on Wednesday, sending up a cloud of ash and prompting authorities to warn of the ...
Mount Merapi, Indonesia's most active volcano, erupted Wednesday, emitting a river of lava onto the mountain below and gas clouds into the sky. The eruption ...
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia's most active volcano erupted Wednesday with a river of lava and searing gas clouds flowing 3000 meters (nearly ...
One major concern over emerging coronavirus variants focuses on their impact on the efficacy of existing vaccines. Now, Pfizer and partner BioNTech are ...
Make no mistake: The United States still is at one of its worst spots of the coronavirus pandemic. Daily deaths are near a peak, and other daily stats still are ...
The U.S. needs 500 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine to fully inoculate everyone 16 and older, according to Andy Slavitt, the Biden administration's deputy ...
The Biden administration's Covid-19 team spent its first virtual briefing Wednesday addressing vaccine distribution problems and questions about a vaccine ...
The adaptation of professional sports being played while in the midst of a pandemic has been marveling to witness. But it has been an adjustment, and some ...
Former tennis world No 1 Serena Williams has praised Australia's “insane” quarantine procedures ahead of the Australia Open. In an interview with late night US ...
With a coronavirus-enforced quarantine coming to an end, the world's elite tennis players will go from two of the quietest weeks of their lives in Australia to three ...
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The number of positive COVID-19 tests linked to the Australian Open has been downgraded to eight after authorities reclassified one ...
Wisconsin will become one of only 10 states without statewide mask mandates if the Assembly votes as scheduled Thursday to overturn Gov. Tony Evers' order ...
The Los Angeles Times' fawning coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris has been labeled “inappropriate and disappointing” by critics, some comparing it to ...
Meena Harris, the niece of Vice President Kamala Harris, said that growing up she was taught that ambition was a "good thing" and explained why family is the ...
Antony Blinken, America's new top diplomat took the helm of the State Department after being sworn in ceremonially by Vice President Kamala Harris. Blinken ...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — European and North American cyber cops have joined forces to disrupt what may be the world's largest network for seeding ...
European and North American police on Wednesday took control of the infrastructure behind a massive network used by criminals to conduct cybercrime, the AP ...
U.S. and European law enforcement agencies announced today that through joint efforts and cooperation on Operation Ladybird, computer servers are now out ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's West Bank settler population has grown at a far higher rate than the country as a whole over the last four years, a pro-settler group ...
President Biden has taken steps to reverse Trump-era policies in the Middle East by throwing the administration's support behind finding a two-state solution ...
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will restore diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority, more than two years after President Donald J. Trump ...
Just six days after taking office, the Biden administration took a sharp turn in U.S. policy in the Middle East, announcing it will resume contact with Palestinian ...
Last week, as the more contagious coronavirus variant began to spread within the Netherlands, the government announced a strict lockdown, including a ...
Giuseppe Conte handed in his resignation Tuesday following weeks of political uncertainty and the loss of a coalition partner over his handling of the ...
The resignation of Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has sparked a *fresh* round of back-room plotting and negotiating as the pandemic rages and the ...
While welcoming Malka Leifer's transfer to Australia, activists say a wider problem highlighted by a CBS News investigation still needs to be addressed.
MELBOURNE, Australia — A former teacher extradited from Israel after a six-year legal battle appeared in an Australian court Thursday to face child sex abuse ...
A Jewish charity will offer chaplaincy services to alleged paedophile Malka Leifer when she returns to Australia, a decision that has angered some members of ...
MELBOURNE: A former teacher extradited from Israel after a six-year legal battle appeared in an Australian court Thursday to face child sex abuse charges.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Travelers returning to New Zealand will face stricter rules at quarantine hotels as health authorities investigate how up to three ...
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took a commercial flight hours before announcing he tested positive for COVID-19 last week, raising concerns ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico said Tuesday it is close to granting approval for Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, with lots of spy drama but little public data ...
When Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced on Sunday that he had tested positive for covid-19, he joined a long list of world leaders ...
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador first felt the onset of COVID-19 on Sunday and was tested after returning to the capital on a commercial flight ...
Hundreds of Tunisians are protesting outside parliament as lawmakers prepare to vote on a new government following a week of protests over poverty and a ...
Tunisian lawmakers approved cabinet changes proposed by Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi after riot police blocked protesters from nearing the assembly ...
ByteDance is reducing the size of its TikTok team in India, months after the popular short video app remains banned in one of its most important markets.
Hong Kong (CNN Business) TikTok has been forced to lay off some of its workers in India as the country doubles down on what was already a monthslong ban ...
ByteDance Ltd.'s revenue more than doubled to about $35 billion last year, defying heightened global competition and Trump's attempt to ban its signature video ...
CNN editor-at-large Chris Cillizza raised eyebrows Wednesday by suggesting that "Trumpism" is behind the dramatic surge in the stock price of struggling ...
At the core of Donald Trump's angry populist appeal was -- and is -- this sentiment: The elites think they know better than you. They think they can tell you how to ...
Fifty-three people are dead and 29 seriously injured following a collision Wednesday between a bus and a truck containing flammable liquid in West Cameroon.
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro delivered a profanity-laced attack on the media Wednesday after reports that his administration spent $3 ...
President Jair Bolsonaro and his top economic chiefs warned against more fiscal stimulus this year although his economy minister acknowledged it could be ...
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, a longtime China skeptic, thanked Beijing on Monday for rapidly approving the export of active ingredients for local COVID-19 ...
Saudi authorities said they had arrested seven businessmen and 12 bank employees for a scheme that involved transferring 11.6 billion riyals ($3.1 billion) of ...
Former Ghanaian leader Jerry John Rawlings was buried with full military honours on Wednesday after a state funeral attended by representatives of world ...
The state funeral of Ghana's longest serving leader, Jerry John Rawlings, has taken place in the capital, Accra. During a turbulent career, he led two coups ...
BRUSSELS — Frontex, the European Union agency responsible for monitoring the bloc's external borders, announced on Wednesday that it was suspending ...
The European Union's border control agency is suspending operations in Hungary after the government in Budapest did not comply with a ruling by Europe's ...
The move, which comes as Britain is swamped by a fast-spreading variant of the coronavirus, will require British citizens arriving from 22-high-risk countries to ...
British people arriving home from 22 "high risk" countries will have to undergo a 10-day hotel quarantine at their own expense, as the UK tightens border ...
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has fired the heads of the country's armed forces whom he appointed when he first took office in 2015. In a surprise ...
Rear Admiral AZ Gambo, Air-Vice Marshal IO Amao, Maj-Gen. I Attahiru and LEO Irabor, di Nigerian new *Service* Chiefs hold dia first meeting with President ...
Buhari new *Service* Chiefs; Lucky Irabor, Ibrahim Attahiru, Ishiaka Amao, Awwal Gambo na di tear rubber heads of di Nigerian Armed Forces but wetin dey dia ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — As he seeks reelection, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has turned to a straightforward strategy: Count on the rock-solid ...
New Delhi — An Indian court has ruled that groping a child cannot be deemed sexual assault as long as there is no "skin-to-skin contact" or "sexual intent.
China has administered about 22.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, a health official said on Wednesday, as the country steps up its campaign ahead of next ...
Manaus (Brazil) (AFP). With more than 3,000 burials in January alone, the Amazon rainforest city of Manaus does not remember a deadlier month. Its cemetery ...
A coronavirus variant from Manaus in northern Brazil, first detected in Japan in January, is now the dominant form of the virus in the hard-hit city, a local ...
Sao Paulo (CNN) A Brazilian court has approved an investigation into Heath Minister Eduardo Pazuello's handling of the Covid-19 crisis, after oxygen shortages ...
