December 31, 2020
Hong Kong’s highest court has revoked media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s bail after prosecutors succeeded in asking the judges to send him back to detention…
December 31, 2020
A humanitarian aid organization says more than 300,000 children in war-ravaged Afghanistan face freezing winter conditions that can lead to illness and death without proper winter clothing and heating…
December 31, 2020
The premier of Canada’s most populous province says he’ll be having a “tough conversation” with his finance minister on Thursday after he ordered him back to Canada after it became public that he was on a Caribbean vacation in the French Island of St. Barts during the pandemic…
December 31, 2020
Many South Africans have swapped firecrackers for candles to mark New Year’s Eve amid COVID-19 restrictions including a nighttime curfew…
December 31, 2020
“Hopefully, 2021 will be easier on all of us,” one Australian official said as Sydney and Melbourne scaled back celebrations.…
December 31, 2020
Disease, mutinies and uncharted waters nearly sabotaged the global circumnavigation launched by Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan…
December 31, 2020
Yemen’s prime minister has renewed accusations that the country’s Shiite rebels and Iran were responsible for the deadly explosion at the airport in the southern city of Aden the previous day…
December 31, 2020
Here are just a handful of significant events that occurred across the globe — some in the shadow of the coronavirus.…
December 31, 2020
President Vladimir Putin is wishing Russians a brighter new year as he praises the nation for its courage and resilience amid the coronavirus outbreak…
December 31, 2020
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has thanked his people for their trust and support in difficult times and wished them good health in New Year’s Day cards…
December 31, 2020
In a speech that resembled a victory lap, the president brimmed with positivity and nationalist sentiment.…
December 31, 2020
Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has expressed gratitude to medical professionals and acknowledged the hardship caused by the coronavirus in a New Year’s Day message…
December 31, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has triggered “a crisis unlike anything the Champagne region has ever seen.”…
December 31, 2020
The EU medicines watchdog says German company BioNTech has applied for clearance to administer up to six doses of its COVID-19 vaccine from each vial…
December 31, 2020
Rescue workers in Norway continue searching for 10 people, including children, who are missing a day after a massive landslide struck a residential area near the capital…
December 31, 2020
He became one of the most successful jazz musicians in Europe and gained a devoted following across the Atlantic with his pleasing crossover compositions.…
December 31, 2020
Guinea officials said Thursday the government has begun inoculating against the coronavirus with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine on an experimental basis, starting with government officials…
December 31, 2020
From early outbreak to global catastrophe: A coronavirus timeline.…
December 31, 2020
Like a separated couple still living together, Britain and the European Union spent 2020 wrangling and wondering whether they could be friends…
December 31, 2020
The U.K. leaves not with a bang but with a recorded New Year’s Eve light show.…
December 31, 2020
Legal experts say the Canada pension board’s transaction is likely to be scrutinized by U.S. securities regulators, who will try to determine whether the investors withheld information about the possibility of a hack before unloading their stakes in SolarWinds.…
December 31, 2020
New Zealand is seeking to go “predator-free” by 2050. Few countries have waged a battle like this on such a major scale, and what is learned here could offer lessons for others.…
December 31, 2020
In Brazil, some have remained locked inside for months — and months.…
December 31, 2020
Coffee producers say the coronavirus pandemic is threatening Honduras’ coffee harvest by keeping Hondurans who would normally travel for the work at home and preventing foreign harvesters from entering the country…
December 31, 2020
As a result of holiday gatherings, African officials warn of a resurgence of COVID-19 on the continent and urge increased testing to combat it…
December 31, 2020
The move paves the way for a global rollout, but the drugmaker did not provide key details in interim analysis of late-stage trials.…
December 31, 2020
After a U.S.-brokered deal to normalize ties between Israel and the UAE, Israeli revelers seeking relief from monthslong virus restrictions came to Dubai in droves…
December 31, 2020
The Pentagon says it is sending home the only Navy aircraft carrier operating in the Middle East, amid heightened tensions with Iran…
December 31, 2020
Pakistani police say they have arrested 24 people in overnight raids after a Hindu temple was set on fire and demolished by a mob led by supporters of a radical Islamist party…
December 30, 2020
Volcanoes that have been quiet for decades are rumbling to life in the eastern Caribbean…
December 30, 2020
A Dutch aid group says one of its staff members was “murdered” at a refugee camp during the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region…
December 30, 2020
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cheered an “unparalleled mobilization of science” to combat the pandemic.…
December 30, 2020
Representatives of the Indian government and tens of thousands of protesting farmers have met after a hiatus of three weeks and reached agreement on two of the four issues that caused the farmers to blockade highways near the capital…
December 30, 2020
A police report says extremist gunmen ambushed an ambulance carrying a pregnant woman and killed her husband before setting the vehicle ablaze in northern Kenya, as such attacks are again on the rise…
December 30, 2020
The attack was launched just as members of a unity government reached the port city, creating more turmoil in a nation already besieged by war and hunger.…
December 30, 2020
Two strategic U.S. bombers have flown over the Persian Gulf in response to what U.S. officials say are worrying signs that Iran may be planning attacks against American or allied targets in the Middle East in the coming days…
December 30, 2020
Iran says its cabinet has created a compensation fund to pay the families of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane that was shot down by Iranian forces outside Tehran last January…
December 30, 2020
The legislation galloped through Parliament and received royal assent from Queen Elizabeth II.…
December 30, 2020
The U.S. is warning that it won’t allow a Pakistani man who was convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl to evade justice after a provincial court in Pakistan ordered his release…
December 30, 2020
Russia has decided to expand the number of British nationals barred from entering Russia in response to the “unacceptable and unfounded” U.K. sanctions over the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny…
December 30, 2020
German officials are making clear they won’t be able to relax lockdown restrictions in early January as the country recorded more than 1,000 deaths in a day for the first time…
December 30, 2020
Empty beds in an Italian monastery. A community wrenched apart in Wyoming. The year has left countless points of pain, but also perseverance.…
December 30, 2020
A Yemeni health official says the explosion that hit the airport in the southern city of Aden as a government plane landed there has killed at least 16 people…
December 30, 2020
The democracy activists were caught in August while trying to flee to Taiwan by speedboat.…
December 30, 2020
A prominent rights attorney jailed in Uganda over criminal charges has been freed on bail amid intense pressure from the international community and watchdog groups ahead of elections in January…
December 30, 2020
The predominantly Roman Catholic homeland of Pope Francis will be the largest country in the region to legalize the procedure.…
December 30, 2020
The development should help the country to fight a surging outbreak, driven by a highly infectious new variant of the virus.…
December 30, 2020
The hiatus is without precedent in the country’s history.…
December 30, 2020
A series of tremors have jolted central Croatia after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake killed at least seven people, injured dozens and left several towns and villages in ruins a day earlier…