China's new COVID-19 cases Tuesday more than doubled from the previous day as the country faces by far its biggest outbreak since the early days of the pandemic.

An anti-war protester interrupted the main news program on Russia's state TV Channel One on Monday, holding up a sign behind the studio presenter with slogans denouncing the war in Ukraine. ...

China banned most people from leaving a coronavirus-hit northeastern province and mobilized military reservists Monday as the fast-spreading "stealth Omicron" variant fuels the country's biggest outbr...

Britain's government said Monday all remaining coronavirus measures for travellers, including passenger locator forms and the requirement that unvaccinated people be tested for COVID-19 before and aft...

Face to face, U.S. President Joe Biden's national security adviser warned a top Chinese official on Monday about China's support for Russia in the Ukrainian invasion, even as the Kremlin denied report...

Nearly all the world's countries kicked off a UN-backed meeting Monday aimed at preventing the loss of biodiversity — seen as critical to avoiding the extinction of many vulnerable species, the emer...

In less than a month, France will hold its first-round presidential ballot — and while the war in Ukraine is a mounting concern, the issues at the heart of the presidential election are closer to ho...

Squatters have occupied the London mansion suspected of belonging to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska — who was placed on Britain's sanctions list last week — unfurling a Ukrainian flag and ...

William Hurt, whose laconic charisma and self-assured subtlety as an actor made him one of the 1980s foremost leading men in movies such as Broadcast News, Body Heat and The Big Chill, has died. He ...

The U.S. has unleashed weapons of financial destruction against Russia. Now economists are trying to predict the long-term fallout for the U.S. dollar's role as a global reserve currency. It's a sourc...

Brent Renaud, an acclaimed filmmaker who travelled to some of the darkest and most dangerous corners of the world for documentaries, died Sunday after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle in Ukra...

A bus carrying Ukrainian refugees overturned on a major highway in northern Italy at dawn on Sunday, killing a young mother, Italian firefighters and news reports said.

Iran has claimed responsibility for a missile barrage that struck early Sunday near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, saying it was retaliation for an Israeli str...

Tens of thousands of people rallied Sunday in cities across Europe to protest against Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

China instituted new COVID-19 restrictions Saturday that included urging the public not to leave Beijing and closing schools in Shanghai while the leader of Hong Kong warned that its coronavirus outbr...

The U.S. State Department says it's paying more than $2 million US per month to provide 24-hour security to former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and a former top aide, both of whom face "serious and ...

Saudi Arabia executed 81 people on Saturday convicted of crimes ranging from killings to belonging to militant groups, the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom in its modern history...

Croatian officials criticized NATO Saturday for what they said was its slow reaction to a military drone that apparently flew from the Ukrainian war zone through the airspace of three NATO member stat...

A Texas judge on Friday blocked the state from investigating gender-affirming care for transgender youth as child abuse after a directive by the state's governor compelled officials to investigate par...