Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cabinet met on Saturday as medical experts warned the virus is spreading at a rate that will soon overwhelm hospitals if the ...
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering a month-long national lockdown across England. New York will require all visitors, except from neighboring ...
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly considering implementing new national lockdown restrictions as early as next week amid worsening coronavirus ...
The earthquake's worst effects are reported in Turkey, where officials say at least 12 people died and more than 600 were injured. The city of Izmir suffered ...
Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) At least 27 people were killed in Turkey and Greece when a powerful earthquake hit the Aegean Sea on Friday afternoon, sending ...
NICE, France — When the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo republished caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in early September, it triggered a chain of ...
Once more, France has been struck by tragedy. A knife attack on Thursday at a church in Nice — by a man who later reportedly shouted “Allahu akbar” at police ...
France is under attack by “Islamist and terrorist madness,” President Emmanuel Macron warned after the country saw yet another terror attack — two men knifed ...
LYON, France (AP) — A Greek Orthodox priest was shot Saturday while he was closing his church in the French city of Lyon, and authorities locked down part of ...
A Greek Orthodox priest has been shot and injured at a church in the centre of the French city of Lyon by an assailant who then fled, a police source and ...
MANILA — Emergency response teams backed by the Philippine police and military scrambled on Saturday to prepare for Typhoon Goni, which officials expect ...
Philippine officials on Saturday ordered the evacuation of thousands of residents in the southern part of the main Luzon island, as the world's strongest storm this ...
MANILA — The Philippines is bracing for a harrowing Halloween night as Typhoon Goni, the strongest storm in the world this year, is set to pass over its largest ...
Nearly a million people in the Philippines were evacuated from their homes Saturday as the most powerful typhoon of the year so far barrelled towards the ...
Dallas County reported 832 new coronavirus cases Friday, the most new cases since mid-August. Six new COVID-19 deaths were also reported. Labs either...
The country voted to allow assisted dying for the terminally ill but no to legalizing marijuana. Two separate referendums were held along with the general ...
Citizens across New Zealand voted to legalize euthanasia for the terminally ill but collectively opted against allowing recreational marijuana use, according to ...
Voters in New Zealand have approved a referendum legalizing euthanasia for terminally ill adults, according to preliminary results from the country's Oct. 17 ...
New Zealand will join a small number of countries that have legalized euthanasia after its citizens voted overwhelmingly in favor of it in a referendum this month.
Huge crowds turned out to protest in the Polish capital, Warsaw, on Friday against a court decision to ban nearly all abortions, making it one of the largest ...
Outraged by a court decision to ban nearly all abortions, hundreds of thousands have taken part in demonstrations over the past week. The action in Warsaw on ...
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Warsaw, protesting a ruling by a top court that made one of Europe's strictest abortion laws even tighter.
Expect to see a lot more of the same if there's a second Trump administration. President Donald Trump has consistently pointed to tax cuts and regulatory relief ...
Democratic nominee Joe Biden will reverse a number of President Trump's policies on immigration if elected to the White House -- something that supporters ...
Stephen Miller, a prominent immigration hawk and senior adviser to President Trump, previewed that the White House would take a tougher stance on allowing ...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The head of the Department of Homeland Security ordered border agents to stop asylum-seekers from stepping on U.S. soil at official ...
President Trump has at times spoken favorably of immigrants during the past four years, echoing conventional Republican praises for those who arrive in the ...
England could enter a second national lockdown in the coming days, as surging coronavirus infections across Europe trigger strict new rules and violent ...
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Shops and businesses were shut in several parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday as separatists challenging Indian rule ...
Shops and businesses were shut in several parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday as separatists challenging Indian rule called for a general strike to ...
Shops and businesses are shut in several parts of Kashmir to denounce new laws by India that allow any of its its nationals to buy land in the disputed region.
The ongoing military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan is prompting hundreds of Armenians living abroad -- as far away as Germany, Argentina and the ...
YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Armenia's leader urged Russia on Saturday to consider providing security assistance to end more than a month of fighting over ...
Armenia has formally asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss defense assistance to the country if the military conflict with Azerbaijan spills over into ...
Emboldened by Turkish support, Azerbaijan has the upper hand in the bloodiest fighting in more than 25 years in the South Caucasus. In just over a month, ...
CLAYTON — About 150 people from the area's Armenian community rallied in downtown Clayton on Friday to call attention to a crisis many Americans know ...
BERLIN (AP) — Nine years late and far above its original budget, Berlin's new airport is finally opening Saturday with little ceremony and, thanks to the ...
The chief negotiators of the U.K. and European Union may have hatched a plan to give a post-Brexit trade deal one last shot, but one man could yet stand in ...
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrapped up a five-nation, anti-China tour of Asia in Vietnam on Friday with a call for regional unity ...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wound up a visit to Asia in Vietnam on Friday after a tour marked by his repeated calls for help for the United States in ...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ended an Asian tour focused on criticism of Beijing with a last-minute stop in Vietnam, which is tangled in disputes with its ...
China has warned that the United States is pursuing another Cold War in its talks with India, which Pakistan also protested as a result of a longstanding territorial ...
A 430-mile traffic jam clogged up Paris Thursday night just hours before the city was placed under a new lockdown amid a *fresh* wave of COVID-19 cases.
Disneyland Paris has shut down for the second time this year as France enters its second national lockdown to fight a new wave of coronavirus infections.
France's Paris region faced traffic jams with a combined length of 730 kilometers (454 miles) Thursday evening, as the approach of a new nationwide lockdown ...
Disneyland Paris is temporarily closing again as France enters a second nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The closure, which took ...
PARIS (AP) — Parisians fleeing for the countryside jammed the roads ahead of France's lockdown to slow the spread of resurgent coronavirus infections, and ...
TAOYUAN, Taiwan — Two lesbian couples tied the knot in a mass wedding held by Taiwan's military on Friday in a historic celebration with their peers. Taiwan ...
'Coming out bravely' Two same-sex couples tied the knot in a mass wedding held by Taiwan's military Date: October 30, 2020 Location: Taoyuan, Taiwan ...
Military same-sex couples married for the first time in Taiwan on Friday, marking another first step for Taiwan after decades of LGBTQ restrictions.Two lesbian ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — An estimated 130,000 people attended Taiwan LGBT Pride on Saturday, making it the world's biggest in-person celebration of gay rights ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A huge and festive crowd marched in Taiwan's capital on Saturday in an annual LGBT Pride event. Turnout was down from last year, but ...
The government called the invasive examinations of women on 10 flights at Doha's airport this month “wholly inconsistent with Qatar's culture and values.”
Qatar says several airport officials have been referred for prosecution after forced gynaecological exams were carried out on women flying to Sydney. The group ...
Police in France have arrested a third suspect in connection with a deadly terror attack in Nice, CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab reports. The country has raised its ...
SFAX, Tunisia (AP) — A third suspect is in French custody Saturday in connection with an Islamic extremist knife attack that killed three people in a Nice church, ...
French police on Friday arrested a third person in connection with Thursday's knife attack at a church in Nice in southern France that left three people dead.
These days, it is rare that a piece of political news can make your jaw drop. But the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from Britain's Labour Party lit up social ...
Britain's Labour Party suspended Jeremy Corbyn, its former leader, on Thursday in the fallout of a highly critical watchdog report on anti-Semitism in the party.
Corbyn's suspension following the inquiry and other recent rows are masking a genuine desire to fight antisemitism, says Sienna Rodgers, editor of LabourList.
It isn't yet light when Alexander Tschugguel and his cameraman sneak into Rome's Santa Maria in Traspontina Church to steal the statues. A lone elderly ...
Pope Francis said in an interview published on Friday that he is determined to root out corruption in the Catholic Church but that he is not overly optimistic ...
He calls himself after his role model, St Francis of Assissi and strictly follows his edict “where there is despair, let me bring hope…” He is also a Jesuit who ...
Pope Francis is certain of this and is repeating it to everyone: we will emerge either better or worse after the pandemic The global crisis requires ...
When the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic started to emerge over the summer, Europe's leaders pulled out out the scalpel, launching local lockdowns in an ...
European countries are reimposing nationwide limitations aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 amid a second wave of the pandemic, as health systems ...
Germany is heading into a partial lockdown. Berlin already imposed closing hours to its nightlife for the first time in decades as Germany's leader asked youth to ...
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In the last year, Bolivia's democracy suffered as partisan clashes filled its streets and mistrust in government grew. And yet it pulled off a calm, uncontested ...
Bolivia's Congress, controlled by the socialist party of the former indigenous President Evo Morales, approved on Thursday night a report that recommends a ...
Bolivia's outgoing interim government will not invite Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro to the inauguration of new socialist leader Luis Arce, the foreign ...
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Assailants shot and killed three politicians from India's ruling party in Kashmir late Thursday, police said, blaming militants fighting ...
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Assailants shot and killed three politicians from India's ruling party in Kashmir late Thursday, police said, blaming militants fighting ...
SRINAGAR, India — Assailants shot and killed three politicians from India's ruling party in Kashmir late Thursday, police said, blaming militants fighting against ...
President Donald Trump's administration has notified Congress of its intent to sell 50 Lockheed Martin F-35 II joint strike fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates, ...
The State Department notified Congress Thursday that it backs the proposed sale of as many as 50 F-35A fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates for $10.4 ...
The Trump administration is moving ahead with a planned F-35 fighter jet sale to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), potentially tipping the scales of military power ...
The U.S. State Department notified Congress it approved the sale of 50 Lockheed Martin Co F-35 jets to the United Arab Emirates in a deal that could be worth ...
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Thursday that the Trump administration has informally notified Congress of its intent to move forward ...
Jordan Goudreau, a central figure in the foiled military incursion that was supposed to topple Nicolás Maduro, says he plotted at Trump properties and was ...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia has announced it will spend 500 million Australian dollars ($351 million) to secure COVID-19 vaccines for the Pacific ...
ROME -- Premier Giuseppe Conte says his government is deciding if more restrictions are needed to rein in the spread of coronavirus infections. “The contagion ...
A Saudi man in a speeding car crashed into the outer gates of Mecca's Grand Mosque late Friday night, the country's state-run news agency reported. The crash ...
Belgium is enforcing a strict lockdown starting Sunday amid rising coronavirus infections, hospital admissions and a surge of deaths, Prime Minister Alexander ...
Belgium was in effect put into a second national lockdown on Friday as scientists and officials directing efforts to control coronavirus said the government's ...
Two men have been arrested in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh for allegedly duping a doctor into buying an "Aladdin's lamp" that they promised would bring ...
At least 140 migrants trying to reach Europe drowned off the coast of Senegal when their boat caught fire and capsized, a U.N. agency said on Thursday.
UN refugee and migration agencies have called for renewed efforts to tackle people-smuggling and trafficking gangs, and to protect those they exploit, after at ...
Talk about good camouflage! Scientists say they have found an elusive chameleon species that was last spotted in Madagascar 100 years ago. Researchers ...
As much of the world struggles to contain new waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, Taiwan just marked its 200th consecutive day without a locally transmitted case ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan hit 200 days without any domestically transmitted cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, highlighting the island's continued success at ...
France and Germany are going back into lockdown, while coronavirus cases in the U.S. surging to new highs, but at the other end of the world Taiwan has ...
While many countries around the world are hitting new highs in coronavirus cases, Taiwan has achieved a different kind of record — 200 days without a locally ...
It has now been 200 days since Taiwan last recorded a domestic case of coronavirus, prompting local health officials to thank the public for participating in efforts ...
Hundreds of protesters waving Armenian and American flags gathered outside SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne Thursday, calling on Elon Musk to nix the ...
A former birdkeeper who stole a pair of penguins from a British zoo and sold them on Facebook was sentenced Friday to 32 months in prison. Bradley Tomes, 25 ...
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Bradley Tomes received a jail sentence of two years and eight months at Preston Crown Court for stealing exotic birds worth £53,000 from South Lakes Safari ...
Shanghai residents passing through the city's eastern Huangpu District earlier this month might have stumbled upon an unusual sight: a 'walking' building.
Samuel Gilbert visited four distinct wilderness areas near the new border wall, which is fragmenting protected habitats and threatening endangered species.
A manhunt is on for a man who is supposed to be serving a life sentence in a Canadian prison but somehow escaped, crossed the border and hitched a ride to ...
Roderick Muchikekwanape, who was serving a life sentence for a first-degree murder, escaped from prison in Mission, B.C., and was seen Friday in Bellingham.
A convicted murderer in BC who escaped a prison facility in Mission, has now been reportedly spotted in Bellingham, WA, according to local authorities.
Shocking video has emerged of a Canadian cop body-slamming a woman in a judo-like move that sent her face-first onto the floor at a Calgary police station ...
A judge in Canada released the video of Constable Alex Dunn slamming a handcuffed woman into the ground. A stunning new video released by a judge at a ...
