The spread of a deadly new virus is accelerating, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned, after holding a special government meeting on the Lunar New Year ...
The novel Wuhan coronavirus outbreak has been changing on an almost hourly basis. It has been difficult even for infectious disease experts to keep up with a ...
The U.S. government is sending a charter flight to the Chinese city of Wuhan Sunday in an effort to evacuate its citizens and diplomats as the country continues ...
Istanbul (CNN) At least 29 people died and more than 1,400 are injured in eastern Turkey after an earthquake rattled the region on Friday evening, according to ...
At least 29 people have been killed and more than 1,400 injured in a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey. The magnitude-6.8 quake centred on the town of ...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The death toll from a strong earthquake that rocked eastern Turkey climbed to 22 Saturday, with more than 1,000 people injured, ...
Iraqi security forces launched a major crackdown on anti-government protesters on Saturday from Baghdad to cities across the south after an influential Shiite ...
Security forces took back bridges and squares in Baghdad and Basra after the prominent Shiite cleric, Moktada al-Sadr, said he would no longer intervene on ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces fired bullets and tear gas on Saturday in raids on protest camps in Baghdad and southern cities, killing four people ...
Katitika, Kenya – The worst outbreak of desert locusts in Kenya in 70 years has seen hundreds of millions of the bugs swarm into the East African nation from ...
It's the worst locust outbreak to hit Kenya in 70 years. Hundreds of millions of the small bugs are swarming in from neighboring Somalia and Ethiopia with ...
Whether it's Losar in Tibet, Tet in Vietnam, Seollal in Korea or Chinese New Year in China, Lunar New Year is celebrated in vastly different ways all across Asia ...
2020 is the Year of the Rat, inaugurating a new 12-year cycle in the Chinese zodiac, beginning on Saturday, January 25—the Lunar New Year. The Chinese ...
On the eve of Lunar New Year, a time meant for celebration with family and arguably the most important Chinese holiday, many Chinatown residents found ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attacked a National Public Radio reporter in a blistering statement after the network said he berated her using expletives.
An NPR reporter alleged on Friday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out at her after an interview in which she pressed him on the ouster of former ...
As the State Department faces ongoing questions over Marie Yovanovitch's treatment as U.S. envoy to Ukraine, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells NPR, "I've ...
A reporter for National Public Radio said Friday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo screamed obscenities and demanded she prove she could find Ukraine on ...
An audio recording appeared to capture President Donald Trump calling in 2018 for the firing of the then U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, a key figure in the series ...
Washington (CNN) The White House refused to provide documents to a nonpartisan congressional watchdog investigating President Donald Trump's decision ...
By all available accounts, President Trump treated since-ousted Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch abysmally. Lev Parnas likely lied to Trump that ...
New York (CNN) President Donald Trump was captured on tape at a 2018 dinner with Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman demanding the firing of Marie Yovanovitch, ...
European Union officials will be closely monitoring results of local elections in Italy Sunday that are seen as a bellwether for the fate of the national government.
The annual meeting of business and political leaders in Davos wrapped up Friday with two of the world's most powerful people disagreeing over how to address ...
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has brushed off criticism and mockery from the U.S. Treasury chief, saying Friday his ...
Kids — way before they finish high school, let alone college — are looking at the world with clear eyes and hope for a better way, and ideas for taking us there.
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department said Friday that 34 American *service* members have traumatic brain injuries from Iranian airstrikes on Al Asad Air ...
Washington (CNN) Thirty-four US *service* members have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries following the Iranian missile attack on US forces in Iraq ...
The Pentagon has said that 34 US troops were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) following an Iranian attack on their base in Iraq. Seventeen troops ...
CLAREMONT, N.H. – Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden slammed President Trump on Friday for his comments about the injuries suffered by U.S. ...
Ronald S. Lauder is president of the World Jewish Congress, which has just launched the #WeRemember campaign in the lead-up to International Holocaust ...
I write from Jerusalem, where I attended a ceremony Thursday at which Vice President Mike Pence and other international leaders spoke to mark the 75th ...
The Veterans of Foreign Wars is demanding that President Donald Trump apologize for downplaying traumatic brain injuries sustained by US *service* members ...
The US wants to agree a post-Brexit trade deal with the UK this year, the country's treasury secretary has said. After meeting Chancellor Sajid Javid in London, ...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin downplayed his remark that environmental activist Greta Thunberg should go study economics, saying he hadn't meant ...
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Saturday that the Trump administration is “focused” on clinching a trade deal with the United Kingdom by the end of ...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday he had learned the hard way to be guarded in his comments on the dollar after roiling financial ...
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - The bodies of three U.S. firefighters who died in a plane crash earlier this week in Australia's remote bushland while battling a fierce ...
A 43-year-old Florida man is among the three Americans killed when a plane fighting wildfires crashed in Australia. Investigators say the American tanker plane ...
The three Americans killed in a plane crash while battling the wildfires in Australia have been identified. All three of the brave firefighters were also U.S. military ...
The bodies of three U.S. firefighters who died in a plane crash earlier this week in Australia's remote bushland while battling a fierce wildfire have been ...
Snakes -- the Chinese krait and the Chinese cobra -- may be the original source of the newly discovered coronavirus that has triggered an outbreak of a deadly ...
NO ONE yet knows the severity of an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, that causes a pneumonia-like illness that has infected at least 555 ...
LONDON — At the strike of 11 p.m. local time on Jan. 31 — a.k.a. midnight in Brussels — Britain will leave the European Union, more or less. Brexit champion ...
Britain's finance sector is losing hope of securing even basic access to European Union markets from Dec. 31, as talk that the EU wants UK fishing rights in ...
Three and a half years after U.K. voters narrowly approved a referendum to quit the European Union, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal cleared its last ...
Boris Johnson has signed the Brexit withdrawal agreement in Downing Street. The prime minister hailed a "fantastic moment" for the country after he put his ...
Three years after President Trump vowed to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico to stop illegal immigrants, a much more effective obstacle has emerged: ...
MEXICO CITY — For generations, Mexico served as a relatively open thruway for undocumented migrants traveling to the United States. Tens of thousands ...
The Associated Press news agency (AP) has apologized after cropping a Ugandan climate activist from a photograph where she had posed with her white peers ...
Outrage over a photo by The Associated Press at Davos has swept the billionaire's forum as a Ugandan climate activist's picture was cropped out of a photo of ...
A top Pentagon official as recently as last month vowed the department would not tolerate "any act of retaliation" against Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman -- a pledge ...
Marsha Blackburn has it out for Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman. The freshman senator from Tennessee has been on a multi-month, multimedia crusade against ...
A top Pentagon official pledged last month in a letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that "the Department will not tolerate any act of retaliation or ...
Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group, discusses the most important issues on and off the official agenda at the World Economic Forum in Davos ...
For the second year in a row at his annual dinner at the World Economic Forum in Davos, financier and philanthropist George Soros warned of the rise of ...
In the face of ferocious partisan attacks, I will continue to do what I've been doing for 55 years: defending the Constitution and the rights of controversial people.
BERLIN — A 26-year-old German man fatally shot six of his relatives Friday, police said, a rare mass shooting in a country with some of the strictest gun laws in ...
Six people have been killed and two are in serious condition following a shooting in southwestern Germany on Friday, police said, adding that the suspect has ...
A shooting that authorities believe to be linked to a family dispute left six people killed and two wounded Friday in a southwestern German town. Around 1 p.m. ...
A man has shot dead six members of his family - including his parents - in the south-west German town of Rot am See, local police have said at a briefing.
The death toll from China's coronavirus outbreak jumped on Saturday to 41 as the Lunar New Year got off to a gloomy start, with Hong Kong declaring a virus ...
Updated at 6:35 p.m. ET. Construction workers in China were scrambling to build a makeshift quarantine and treatment facility on the outskirts of Wuhan, the ...
As Lebanon marks 100 days of protest, a new kind of government has been dismissed by demonstrators as the country free-falls into a dual political and ...
Lebanon's new government must reassure international donors it is serious about reforms to tackle a financial crisis as it looks initially to secure up to $5 billion ...
Lebanon's new interior minister says he won't permit attacks on security forces amid angry rioting that has gripped the country's capital amid a deepening ...
The vice president's trip to Israel and Italy gave him ample opportunities to counterprogram the news back home. But impeachment is a hard topic to outrun.
ROME — Vice President Pence, in Israel, marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. He slipped a prayer into Jerusalem's Western Wall and ...
The British police accuse an American woman of driving on the wrong side of the road in an accident that killed a teenage motorcyclist. The State Department ...
Brazilian prosecutors filed charges against American journalist Glenn Greenwald Tuesday, alleging he aided in cybercrimes and "helped, encouraged and ...
The most consequential journalism entails working with informants or whistleblowers who engage in illegality to uncover unflattering or corrupt interactions that ...
Brazil's former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says that the nation's widely denounced charges of cybercrimes against journalist Glenn Greenwald are a ...
Journalist Glenn Greenwald is speaking out about the criminal charges made against him by the Brazilian government and slammed its "authoritarian" President ...
The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald acknowledged that he and his family don't leave the house without armed protection amid his feud with the Brazilian ...
The Lunar New Year will arrive on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020 (1/25/2020), marking the beginning of the lunar calendar and the “Year of the Rat” in the Chinese ...
South Coast Plaza's Jewel Court will glitter with traditional red and gold decor the next couple of weeks as the Costa Mesa mall holds its 10th annual celebration ...
The family of an Indiana toddler who fell from her grandfather's arms to her death off a cruise ship is challenging what it calls Royal Caribbean Cruises' "false ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The parents of an Indiana girl who fell to her death from the open window of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico contend it was ...
The parents of an 18-month-old Indiana girl who fell to her death from an open window of a cruise ship docked in Puerto Rico accused the cruise line of “creating ...
The former associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani said through his lawyer that he had given the tape to the House Intelligence Committee for use in the impeachment ...
Lawmakers responded Friday to a recording reviewed by ABC News that appears to capture Trump saying he wanted then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie ...
President Trump told Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle" in an exclusive interview Friday that he did not instruct indicted Rudy Giuliani business associate Lev ...
Explore what's moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Apple Podcast, Spotify or Pocket Cast. U.S. Treasury ...
The United States, the European Union and what will soon be post-Brexit Britain, have all raised the prospect of negotiating and concluding trade deals between ...
The White House has started work on a second round of tax cuts even as the budget deficit continues to grow, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said ...
The Trump administration expects to secure trade deals with the European Union and Britain this year, but not India, top U.S. officials said on Thursday.
London (CNN Business) London's Metropolitan Police has announced controversial plans to use live facial recognition technology to improve officers' ability to ...
LONDON — London's police department said on Friday that it would begin using facial recognition to spot criminal suspects with video cameras as they walk the ...
Scotland Yard will begin using live facial-recognition technology in London to help identify criminal suspects, drawing criticism from privacy advocates who say ...
Police are to start using controversial facial recognition across London, despite concerns over the technology's accuracy and privacy issues. Eight trials carried ...
London police will start using facial recognition cameras to pick out suspects from street crowds in real time, in a major advance for the controversial technology ...
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Saturday her government is raising its response level to the highest level – emergency – and closing schools for two weeks, ...
The spread of a deadly respiratory virus has prompted the authorities to limit travel in cities in central China, including Wuhan, where the disease was first found ...
China's most festive holiday began in the shadow of a worrying new virus Saturday as the death toll surpassed 40, an unprecedented lockdown kept 36 million ...
(CNN) There's a new rule on Wall Street: Goldman Sachs says it won't take companies public anymore unless they have at least one woman (or "diverse" ...
President Trump will sign the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement at the White House on Wednesday, the White House confirmed. The signing will come in the ...
President Donald Trump will sign his signature trade deal with Mexico and Canada on Wednesday, but the three countries still must meet many of their ...
