Police say they are tracking down five fugitives suspected in the killing of President Jovenel Moïse, including a former Senator and an informant for the US government.

US prosecutors accuse Iran of plotting to kidnap exiles, including prominent journalist and Tehran critic Masih Alinejad.

Diubis Laurencio Tejeda, 36, died on Monday during a clash between protesters and police near Havana as thousands demonstrated against food shortages and high prices.

The island, which boasts of being one of the world's most-vaccinated nations, is hoping to curb an upsurge in new cases of COVID-19.

The unrest follows the jailing of former president, Jacob Zuma, on corruption charges.

Hundreds of journalists gathered in Georgia to pay tribute to a cameraman who died after being beaten last week by far-right activists.

Authorities have issued flood warnings with strong rain still forecast.

Lithuania’s parliament has passed new legislation aimed at curbing an influx of migrants crossing its borders, despite criticism from NGOs.

The British parliament voted on Tuesday to cut the aid budget, despite some high profile politicians from the ruling Conservative party voting against the move.

Germany's chancellor said that the country would not make vaccination mandatory for certain professions, as France is doing for healthcare workers.

The Polish Constitutional Court is due to rule on whether the country's national law can take precedence over EU law.

Michèle Rivasi, from the European Greens, is known for her opposition to vaccines and has sparked indignation from other French politicians.

Thomas Bach quickly corrected himself after referring to the “Chinese people” rather than “Japanese people.”

At least 92 people were confirmed to have died in a fire at a coronavirus hospital ward in southern Iraq.

The people of Cuba took to the streets at the weekend to voice their anger at food shortages. The government have responded with fierce crackdowns.

The weekend demonstrations over high prices and food shortages were extremely unusual on an island where little dissent against the government is tolerated.

The arrest of a failed Haitian businessman living in Florida deepened the mystery into an already convoluted plot surrounding the assassination of Haiti’s president.

The British prime minister Boris Johnson asked people to “proceed with caution” as he said lifting all remaining lockdown restrictions in England would go ahead in a week as planned, despite a sharp rise in coronavirus cases.

World Health Organization officials want rich countries to give their extra coronavirus vaccine doses to poor countries that haven’t yet immunised their populations, rather than using them as boosters.

France has moved to restrict restaurants, cafes and shopping centres to those that have been vaccinated or who have recently tested negative for COVID-19.

The resignation of a government representative in Belgium has prompted debate in parliament over the ban on civil servants wearing religious symbols.

The United Nations warned the coronavirus pandemic had likely contributed to a ‘dramatic worsening of world hunger’ in 2020.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has conceded that the Netherlands lifted coronavirus restrictions too soon, as COVID-19 infection rates rise.

Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin has announced he is quitting as head of Moscow's Krasnoselsky district amid ongoing pressure.

The coronavirus measures will remain in place throughout the Tokyo Olympics, with businesses selling alcohol being asked to shut to stop people from drinking and partying.

The World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus did not "take a break" during Sunday's EURO 2020 final.

The EU denied following "a policy of waiting" towards Damascus after a Syrian opposition group accused the bloc of not exerting sufficient pressure on the Assad regime.

The countries ahead on vaccinations, relatively speaking, are those outside the EU, like Serbia and the UK. Hungary is the exception, but Budapest has bought doses from Russia and China to boost its stocks.

It was one of biggest anti-government demonstrations in Cuban history.

Cameraman Alexander Lashkarava was beaten by a mob while covering an anti-LGBT march.

Moldova's president appears to have secured enough seats in parliament to enable her to enact her reform agenda, early polls suggest.

It is Italy's first tournament win since 2006 and comes after the nation was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.

They are the latest to be identified in mass graves at the site of Europe's worst massacre since the Second World War.

The ruling party won 410 seats out of 436 contested in the federal parliament, which will see dozens of other seats remain vacant after one-fifth of constituencies didn't vote due to unrest or logistical reasons.

Forest fires have broken out in Russia's Chelyabinsk region near Kazakhstan and in north-eastern Siberia.

Saturday’s removal of a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee and another of Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson will come nearly four years after violence erupted at the infamous “Unite the Right” rally.

A wide security boundary complete with razor wire had turned the Capitol into a fortress for months.

Finance Ministers meet central bankers at the G20 in Venice with a view to stopping multinational companies from shifting profits into low-tax havens.

“We definitely need assistance and we’ve asked our international partners for help,” Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph said late Friday. “We believe our partners can assist the national police in resolving the situation."

Lula, 75, led the Latin American country between 2003 and 2010 and is now considering mounting a challenge to Bolsonaro for a third and final term after his corruption convictions were overturned.

Biden told Putin during a phone call on Friday that the US reserves the right to "defend its people and its critical infrastructure," the White House said.

Video posted online by the Tour de France shows the British rider, 36, celebrating his win by hugging his teammates.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi's office said she had been a role model for Egyptian women and granted her a national award posthumously.

The installation of some 1200 smart surveillance cameras on the streets of Belgrade has raised concerns both in Serbia's capital and among some European Union institutions. What are they being used for and why are they upsetting digital rights activi...

Lithuania has begun constructing a fence along its border with Belarus to deter third-country migrants from entering the country.

Pfizer has said that a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine could boost immunity.

A train carrying dozens of schoolchildren derailed in the Austrian Alps, causing one carriage to fall on its side into a river.

A skydiving plane crashed outside the Swedish city of Orebro, killing all nine people on board. The dead included the pilot and eight passengers, police said.

Strong thunderstorms accompanied by high winds and torrential rains hit the southern Czech Republic on Thursday, leading to two deaths.

In a speech at the White House, Biden listed his reasons for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, and confirmed the US military mission will conclude on August 31.