Ethiopia's military on Thursday said it was responsible for a deadly airstrike on a busy marketplace in the country's Tigray region. Health workers said the attack ...
At least 64 people have been killed and 180 injured in an Ethiopian airstrike on a market in the war-torn Tigray region, according to local health officers, doctors, ...
Ethiopia's military on Thursday took responsibility for a deadly airstrike on a marketplace in the country's Tigray region that killed at least 64 people, including ...
Residents of Gibraltar voted by a wide margin Thursday to ease one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe following an emotional campaign, lifting a near-ban ...
(CNN) Hungary "has no place" in the European Union after passing a controversial new bill banning LGBTQ *content* in schools, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte ...
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Thursday that Hungary should not be part of the EU because of its new law banning LGBT *content* in schools. "For me ...
European Union leaders on Thursday confronted their peer, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, over Hungary's new anti-LGBT law, stressing their commitment to ...
KYIV, Ukraine — When the British destroyer H.M.S. Defender sailed near the coast of Crimea on Wednesday, it was supposed to be quietly demonstrating that ...
Russia is prepared to target intruding warships if they fail to heed warnings, a senior Russian diplomat said Thursday in a tough statement in the wake of a Black ...
Britain did not “unexpectedly” become embroiled in a diplomatic and military dispute with Russia on Wednesday (Royal Navy ship off Crimea sparks diplomatic ...
Visiting Hawaii is about to get easier for vaccinated travelers. Beginning July 8,the state will end its pre-travel COVID testing requirement for visitors from the U.S. ...
July 8 — two weeks from now — should represent a major milestone in the fight against COVID-19 in Hawaii when all counties are expected to ease limits on ...
As Hawaii nears having 60% of the population fully vaccinated for COVID-19, Gov. David Ige announced Thursday the state will relax travel and gathering ...
North Carolina has seen its coronavirus vaccination rate slow to a crawl in recent weeks, so state officials hope President Joe Biden can revive the push for ...
The blame for the country falling short of President Joe Biden's July 4 vaccination goal falls squarely on the shoulders of adults aged 18-24, but the ...
MANILA — Former Philippine president Benigno Aquino III, a scion of pro-democracy leaders who helped topple dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the 1980s and ...
(CNN) The former President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino III died Thursday at the age of 61 after being hospitalized in Quezon City, state media reported.
I know he was not the callous dumbo I thought him to be, and regret not getting a proper interview with him to know what it was like to be President firsthand.
Read the full text of former president Benigno Aquino III's speech upon receiving the Ka Pepe Diokno award for his efforts to assert the Philippines' sovereignty ...
Hong Kong's last pro-democracy newspaper, the Apple Daily, sold out all 1 million copies of its last edition on Thursday as it closed after a crackdown from ...
Indian PM Narendra Modi met politicians from Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday amid speculation that Delhi's three-year direct rule might end with elections.
India's prime minister Narendra Modi has met pro-India politicians from disputed Kashmir for the first time since he removed the region's semi-autonomous status ...
SRINAGAR, India, June 24 (Reuters) - Indian premier Narendra Modi told leaders from Jammu & Kashmir that elections would be held there after the region's ...
JABAL SUBEIH, West Bank — When Israeli settlers took over a windswept hilltop in the West Bank last month, it became the latest of about 140 unauthorized ...
Israel has been trying to influence the Biden administration's approach to the Iran nuclear deal in a series of high-level meetings with U.S. officials, Israeli ...
In a fusion of the modern and the medieval, green laser beams and flaming torches light up the night sky in a remote part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, ...
Leaving the official residence on Balfour Street has become a symbol of an end to Netanyahu's tenure as prime minister, and a change in the direction of public ...
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union countries bordering Russia rejected a Franco-German plan to resume official meetings with Russian President Vladimir ...
Germany and France want European Union leaders to host a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but other allies aren't hearing much justification for a ...
At the recent Geneva Summit, President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a joint declaration containing strong echoes of Ronald Reagan ...
BERLIN — The United States and Germany launched a new initiative Thursday to stem an alarming rise in anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial around the world.
BERLIN — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday began his second trip to Europe in barely a week, part of the Biden administration's determination ...
BERLIN (AP) — The United States and Germany launched a new initiative Thursday to stem an alarming rise in antisemitism and Holocaust denial around the ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron urged fellow EU leaders on Thursday to take a firmer line on travel from countries ...
BERLIN — Germany needs to start showing Central and Eastern Europe more respect, and stop all the lecturing and acting as if it were the Continent's ...
SYDNEY (AP) — Sydney was going through one the “scariest” times of the pandemic as a cluster of the highly contagious delta variant infects more people, ...
Australia's most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), reported a double digit rise in new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 for the third straight day as ...
Sydney's Covid outbreak has worsened but the NSW Premier is still calm. Nobody is rushing to stock up on toilet paper, or wondering how they'll pay the rent.
Iran on Wednesday said the U.S. had agreed to lift former President Trump's sanctions on Iranian oil and shipping that have devastated the country's economy.
The election of Ebrahim Raisi as president of Iran has completed a hard-line conservative sweep of all key political institutions in the country. Raisi won handily ...
Talks will go on … Incoming Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will continue talks on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal.
Medea Benjamin | A restored JCPOA and the end of U.S. sanctions would have left the moderates in a stronger position, and set Iran's relations with the United ...
PALO ALTO, Califorinia – Iran's presidential election on June 18 was the most farcical in the history of the Islamic regime — even more so than the 2009 election ...
A defrocked Greek Orthodox priest was charged Thursday with multiple counts of causing grievous bodily harm over an acid attack that injured seven senior ...
Athens, Greece (CNN) A 37-year-old priest is in custody in Greece after allegedly launching an acid attack that injured 10 people at a meeting of senior bishops.
A Greek Orthodox priest was arrested Thursday and charged with several counts of causing bodily harm after he was accused of attacking seven senior bishops ...
With the delta COVID variant establishing a firm hold in Israel, a Pfizer official says their vaccine is about 90 percent effective against the variant.
TRAVEL ADVISER: I know Israel is supposed to be a light unto the nations, but must we be the only country in the entire world with such draconian demands to ...
Israel announced Wednesday a delay to the renewed entry of individual tourists and said it could take other steps to counter the spread of the Delta variant of ...
LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) - Britain will next month publish plans to allow fully vaccinated people to travel unrestricted to all countries except those with the ...
Britons who have received both doses of a coronavirus vaccine will be given extra freedom to travel around the world, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said, as the ...
Boris Johnson said there is a “real opportunity” to ease travel restrictions for fully vaccinated people, as analysts predict Malta, the Balearic Islands and Madeira ...
SINGAPORE, June 24 (Reuters) - Singapore is drawing up a road map on how to live more normally with COVID-19 on expectations that the virus will become ...
SINGAPORE — All five COVID-19 cases who are in the intensive care unit (ICU) are unvaccinated, a senior Ministry of Health (MOH) official said on Thursday ...
We are continuing with our efforts to control the worrisome Delta variant of Covid-19. Given its high transmissibility, it will be hard to bring infections down to zero.
London (CNN Business) The United Kingdom will fail to meet its "historic climate promises" if the government doesn't urgently put policies in place to reach its ...
LONDON, June 24 (Reuters) - The next round of international climate talks this year must focus on getting more ambitious greenhouse gas emissions cuts and ...
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson risks failure when he hosts key climate change talks this year, unless he delivers on promises to eliminate greenhouse gas ...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has defended the nation's Royal Navy Ship saying it was legally sailing in Ukrainian waters after Russia fired several shots ...
When the news broke, it was hard to believe. Not the fact of there having been an incident involving Russia and a British warship in the Black Sea – that was all ...
JERUSALEM — A prominent critic of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank died in the custody of Palestinian security forces soon after being arrested at his ...
Jerusalem (CNN) A well-known Palestinian critic of the Palestinian Authority (PA) has died in police custody in Hebron, sparking angry condemnation from ...
An outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority (PA) who intended to run in parliamentary elections before they were cancelled earlier this year died during his ...
Nizar Banat, an outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority, died after Palestinian security forces arrested him and beat him with batons, his family said.
HEBRON, West Bank, June 24 (Reuters) - A Palestinian activist who died in the custody of President Mahmoud Abbas's security forces on Thursday took blows ...
A year after the start of student-led protests against Thailand's military-backed government, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is facing growing anger amid a ...
Hundreds of Thai pro-democracy protesters took to the streets on Thursday, calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and constitutional ...
In view of the ongoing parliamentary debate about constitutional revisions, it has become the consensus that the 2017 charter is flawed and in need of change.
Pro-democracy protesters in Thailand have rallied to mark the 89th anniversary of the Siamese Revolution, a bloodless coup that brought an end to the country's ...
Five years ago, on June 23, 2016, Britain voted to leave the European Union. The separation has hardly been smooth, and in some ways the effects have yet to ...
Pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily printed its last edition on Thursday, and its digital *content* was no longer accessible as of 11:59 pm local time ...
HONG KONG (AP) — The final edition of Hong Kong's last remaining pro-democracy paper sold out in hours Thursday, as readers scooped up all 1 million ...
Jimmy Lai started the Apple Daily newspaper in 1995 to defend the Hong Kong way of life before the 1997 handover to China. Its inaugural launch editorial ...
U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called on China to respect the basic freedoms of Hong Kong residents following the arrest of journalists and the closure of ...
LISBON (Reuters) -Stricter COVID-19 rules will be imposed across the Lisbon region and Algarve tourism magnet Albufeira as Portuguese authorities try to ...
Authorities in Portugal's Lisbon region are reintroducing coronavirus restrictions due to a surge driven by the delta variant, which now accounts for more than ...
Two months after Portugal began to ease a prolonged lockdown, the Lisbon region is going into reverse due to a surge driven by the coronavirus' delta variant, ...
The Minister of the Presidency has announced that there are no conditions to continue the easing of lockdown plan in Portugal, taking into account that the ...
Those leaving or entering the Lisbon region each weekend will need a negative coronavirus test or a vaccination certificate, the Portuguese government said on ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — After enjoying nearly four months without any community transmission of the coronavirus, New Zealanders were on edge ...
BRASILIA, June 23 (Reuters) - A Brazilian Health Ministry official alerted President Jair Bolsonaro to internal pressure he was facing to buy a COVID-19 vaccine ...
A Brazilian Health Ministry official alerted President Jair Bolsonaro to internal pressure he was facing to buy a COVID-19 vaccine developed by India's Bharat ...
A Brazilian Health Ministry official has revealed that he alerted President Jair Bolsonaro to internal pressure he was facing to buy a COVID-19 vaccine ...
On Thursday afternoon, Grant Shapps announced that England has added Malta and several other countries to its green list. Those changes include changes to ...
