Despite a statewide death toll of over 5,000 from COVID-19 as of Saturday, California started this weekend to reopen most retail businesses that can prove th

A fire that raged for 14 hours on one of France's nuclear submarines did not lead to an atomic accident as steps were taken to protect its reactor, the defens

Starting from Monday it would be possible for France to "turn the page on the first act of the crisis" that had forced France into nearly two months of anti-

Greece is ready to welcome visitors again with health safety as the top priority in the new COVID-19 era, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Saturday

Italy registered a total of 236,305 coronavirus cases on Friday, as the number of active infections dropped below 30,000 for the first time since March 18, ac

A rocket attack late Saturday north of Baghdad hit an Iraqi base but missed US-led coalition troops stationed there, Iraq's military and a coalition official sa

Over 100 people were arrested during Saturday's far-right protests in central London, which turned violent later and left six police officers with minor inju

Israel started on Sunday preparations for building a new settlement in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights named after US President Donald Trump, Israeli Pri

The brother of George Floyd, the African American man whose death in police custody inspired protests across the country, urged lawmakers in a congressional hea

The World Health Organization (WHO) hopes to work "side by side" with the US to contain an outbreak of Ebola in Congo, its chief said on Wednesday, despite the

As racial justice protests have swept the US, leading retailers have taken to social media to proclaim their commitment to equality.


But such statements decry

Colombia's capital Bogota, one of the oldest bullfighting cities in the Americas, is set to outlaw the mistreatment and killing of the animals in a move aimed

A statue of Christopher Columbus in Boston has been beheaded, police said Wednesday, as calls to remove sculptures commemorating colonizers and slavers sweep A

In this era of social distancing and depressing news, we could all do with a good hug. Now scientists have analyzed what makes the perfect cuddle - just don't s

The United States has reported 941 additional fatalities from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing nationwide death toll to 113,774, according to a tally by

Brazil's total confirmed COVID-19 cases topped 800,000 and the death toll surpassed 40,000 on Thursday, local media quoted data from the country's health minis

Protests and riots across the US sparked by the death of George Floyd have developed into a new stage - America's Cultural Revolution, a broader social movement

The British Museum might not have expected its "Black Lives Matter" tweets to be greeted with derision by global netizens, who asked the museum to return the e

An autopsy was carried out Wednesday on a young brown bear discovered dead in the Pyrenees mountains with gunshot wounds, in a bid to identify its killer, local

Russian investigators on Wednesday detained three staffers of a power plant over a huge fuel spill in the Arctic, as response teams warned a full cleanup would

The European Commission will later this week put forward an approach for the gradual and partial lifting of the Schengen zone's external travel restrictions as

US fighter jets intercepted Russian bombers twice on Wednesday off the coast of Alaska, US air defense command said in a statement.

The intercepts come less t

Poland will reopen its borders to other European Union (EU) countries on June 13, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Wednesday.

The announcement