With U.K. roads clogged to pre-pandemic levels and ridership on London’s subway soaring, many people are acting as if the pandemic is over - even though there are now 40,000 new COVID-19 cases a day...

David Lavery's private security company in Kabul is credited with rescuing more than 100 Afghans with ties to Canada.

Hong Kong police on Thursday raided the premises of the closed June 4th Museum, dedicated to the victims of China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Squar...

One of the largest Confederate monuments in the U.S. came down Wednesday as workers removed a figure of Gen. Robert E. Lee that towered over Virginia's capital city for more than a century and became ...

A former nurse who co-founded and once ran the cult-like NXIVM group, where prosecutors say women were brainwashed, branded like animals and coerced into sex, was sentenced Wednesday to 42 months in p...

Canada's diplomats and development officials praised this country's progress on the effort to promote gender equality in Afghanistan in the months before the Taliban swept to power. Experts now questi...

The Taliban's appointment of hardline veteran figures to top cabinet positions in Afghanistan was widely seen as a signal Wednesday that the group was not looking to broaden its base and present a...

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said on Wednesday that the organization had helped around 100 members of the "Olympic community" in Afghanistan to leave the country on humanitari...

With a heavy security presence, the trial of 20 men accused in a series of co-ordinated attacks on Paris in 2015 that spread fear across Europe and transformed France opened Wednesday in a custom-buil...

Countries in the Americas should prioritize pregnant and lactating women in distribution of COVID-19 shots, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday, hailing the ability of the va...

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro got a rousing reception from tens of thousands of people gathered in the capital Tuesday in an Independence Day show of support for the right-wing leader embroiled in...

A powerful earthquake struck southwestern Mexico near the beach resort of Acapulco on Tuesday night, killing at least one man who was crushed by a falling post, and causing rock falls and damaging b...

A massive fire raged through an overcrowded prison near Indonesia's capital early Wednesday, killing at least 41 inmates and injuring 80 others.

El Salvador became the first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender Tuesday, but President Nayib Bukele said the digital wallet used for transactions wasn't functioning. Meanwhile, the value of the ...

North Korea was formally suspended from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics by the IOC on Wednesday as punishment for refusing to send a team to the Tokyo Games citing the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

The Taliban on Tuesday announced an all-male interim government for Afghanistan stacked with veterans of their hard-line rule from the 1990s and the 20-year battle against the U.S.-led coalition, a mo...

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an elections overhaul into law Tuesday that adds more voting restrictions in the booming state, after Democrats spent months protesting what they say are effor...

Mexico's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion, unanimously annulling several provisions of a law from Coahuila — a state on the Texas border — that had made a...

U.K. raising taxes on workers, companies and dividends in attempt to fill health service funding gap. The move is part of an attempt to fix a health and social care funding crisis after the governm...

The U.S. Justice Department said Monday that it will not tolerate violence against anyone who is trying to obtain an abortion in Texas as federal officials explore options to challenge a new state law...