MADRID (AP) — A powerful explosion apparently caused by a gas leak ripped the facade off a residential building in central Madrid on Wednesday, killing two ...
At least three people were killed and several injured Wednesday in an explosion caused by a suspected gas leak in the heart of the Spanish capital, Madrid, ...
At least three people have been killed and several injured after a gas explosion tore through a parish building in the centre of Madrid, raining masonry on the ...
At least three people died when an explosion ripped through a building in the center of Madrid, the city's Emergency Information Office said in a tweet ...
A powerful gas explosion tore through a residential building in central Madrid on Wednesday, killing at least three people and ripping the facade off the structure.
Even locked up in a detention center on the outskirts of Moscow, Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny continues to be a thorn in Russian President Vladimir Putin's side.
A new video from Alexei Navalny's FBK foundation accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of building a private palace with $1 billion raised through ...
MOSCOW — A team led by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny published a sprawling investigation on Tuesday describing a secret palace built ...
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR Putin of Russia put on a show of arbitrary power this weekend in the airport seizure of Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader who was ...
To understand the events of Russian dissident Aleksei Navalny's near-fatal poisoning and his Jan. 17 return to Russia, you must know that there are two ...
In the latest surreal development before next month's Australian Open, tennis players and members of their entourages were accused of feeding mice in their ...
After reportedly asking for a shortened isolation period and private housing options with tennis courts, Novak Djokovic posted a statement to Instagram saying ...
Australian Formula One star Daniel Ricciardo says he admires Australian Open bosses for taking up the "bold challenge" to host the grand slam during a ...
A "growing controversy" is brewing Down Under as the tennis world gears up for the Australian Open. The BBC reports three people have tested positive for ...
India has begun exporting COVID-19 vaccines to neighboring countries with the first batches being shipped Wednesday to Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh, ...
HONG KONG—Chinese health authorities have ramped up their efforts to contain a resurgence of coronavirus cases, as the country faces its worst flare-up since ...
China is rushing to build a massive quarantine camp that can house more than 4000 people, after an outbreak of Covid-19 this month that has left tens of ...
Beijing has imposed a lockdown of 1.7 million people in part of the Chinese capital as officials race to prevent a Covid-19 resurgence in the country's northern ...
BEIJING (AP) — China's capital, Beijing, recorded seven more coronavirus cases on Wednesday amid a lingering outbreak in the country's north. Another 46 ...
CNN reports a massive quarantine camp that can hold 4,160 people is currently being constructed just outside Shijiazhuang, the capital of the Hebei province.
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE built the case that their Covid-19 vaccine will protect against the new variant of the coronavirus that emerged in the U.K. with results ...
Italy's virus czar is pressing ahead with plans to take legal action against Pfizer after the U.S. pharmaceutical company announced delays in delivering ...
A study by Israeli scientists of preliminary data from 200,000 people who have received the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine has confirmed “really good ...
A study by South African scientists into the new coronavirus variant driving a resurgence of cases in the country raises concern about the efficacy of vaccines ...
Previous infection with the coronavirus may offer less protection against the new variant first identified in South Africa, scientists said on Monday, although they ...
Viruses mutate all the time, including the novel coronavirus that's caused the global Covid-19 pandemic. Most of the changes have no apparent effect. But recent ...
Forty-three people died and 10 were rescued after a boat carrying West African migrants capsized off the Libyan coast on Tuesday, the International ...
The country had been embroiled in *fresh* political uncertainty over the past week. The bond market has shown some concerns during this period, with Italian ...
Italy's prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, has managed to cling to power, but he will plough ahead with an even more fragile government as the country battles to ...
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is set to get broad parliamentary backing for 32 billion euros of extra spending for the COVID-hit ...
ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte worked to solidify his majority in parliament Wednesday after narrowly winning a Senate confidence vote after a ...
Baptist Health announced Tuesday that due to restraints on the COVID-19 vaccine supply, all first-dose vaccinations booked for Jan. 20 and later are canceled.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced he will offer Venezuelan exiles protection from deportation, a move he has considered for years but refused to ...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered a halt to removal of certain Venezuelans from the United States for 18 months, citing conditions in the South ...
Donald Trump's last-minute move to extend Deferred Enforced Departure to Venezuelans drew elation and speculation about a possible Ivanka Trump U.S. ...
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that Germany is extending its pandemic restrictions, including the closure of schools and stores, until ...
Supporters of the man who may become Germany's next leader raced to defend him, after his unorthodox foreign policy views raised questions about his ...
Germany has extended and tightened its national lockdown despite slowly declining case numbers and the Netherlands and Denmark are expected to follow ...
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel is holding a virtual meeting Tuesday with the governors of Germany's 16 states to discuss the country's pandemic ...
Chancellor Angela Merkel extended and tightened coronavirus restrictions, intensifying Germany's efforts to check the disease as deaths rose by the most since ...
Two more Australian Open players have tested positive for the coronavirus, authorities revealed Wednesday, taking to the number of cases linked to the tennis ...
A day after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny returned from Germany to Moscow, he was subject to an extraordinarily fast court hearing in which a judge ...
Jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny urged Western governments to sanction key allies of President Vladimir Putin as Russia ignores U.S. and European ...
MOSCOW — A Russian judge on Monday ordered opposition leader Alexei Navalny jailed for 30 days, after the leading Kremlin critic returned to Russia from ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attempted to execute a “Hail Mary” decision to legalize dozens of illegal settler outposts deep in the West Bank one ...
A candidate COVID-19 vaccine known as EpiVacCorona, Russia's second to be registered, proved "100% effective" in early-stage trials, Russian consumer ...
MOSCOW: A candidate COVID-19 vaccine known as EpiVacCorona, Russia's second to be registered, proved “100 percent effective” in early-stage trials, ...
(Reuters) - Russia's sovereign wealth fund RDIF has filed for registration of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in the European Union and expects it to be ...
Secretary of State designee Antony Blinken said President-elect Joe Biden intends to join Covax, the World Health Organization-led effort to develop and ...
For months, the World Health Organization has called on countries to come together to ensure a fair distribution of Covid-19 vaccines among rich and poor ...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A growing groundswell of youth unrest, tapping into a well of economic frustration, is sweeping Tunisia and worrying its leadership all the ...
TUNIS, Tunisia — It felt like an echo of the wildfire protests that brought down Tunisia's dictator, leading to a series of revolts that ripped across the Middle East ...
TUNIS — It felt like an echo of the wildfire protests that brought down Tunisia's dictator, leading to a series of revolts that ripped across the Middle East 10 years ...
A *fresh* generation of Tunisian youth is protesting economic woes, social inequality, political corruption and other problems, driven by the unfulfilled expectations ...
Tunisia saw another night of anti-government protests after the prime minister acknowledged “legitimate” anger at the North African nation's economic malaise ...
Local and federal officials in Brazil were warned of looming oxygen shortages nearly a week before crisis struck in the city of Manaus, the country's Solicitor ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Amazonian city of Manaus began administering vaccines against the coronavirus, providing a ray of hope for the rainforest's ...
The country has relatively few doses and is paying a price for its leader's slow pursuit of vaccines early on. That lapse may hinder Brazil's ability to fight ...
Venezuela's strongman president, Nicolás Maduro, has sent an emergency shipment of oxygen to his country's border with Brazil in a politically charged gesture ...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has authorized the dispatch of oxygen to Brazil to help its South American neighbor treat ...
BALTIMORE (AP) – The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed 400,000 on Tuesday in the waning hours in office for President Donald Trump, whose ...
As the United States surpassed 400000 deaths on the eve of his inauguration, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. assumed the role of mourner-in-chief at a ...
TORONTO — Canadian officials say the country won't be getting any Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine next week and 50% less than expected over the next ...
President-elect Joe Biden's incoming White House press secretary says his administration does not intend to lift coronavirus travel restrictions for Europe, the ...
Scottish fishermen parked their trucks near UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office at 10 Downing Street on Monday to protest post-Brexit red tape they say has ...
On his way out, President Donald Trump claimed credit for things he didn't do and twisted his record on jobs, taxes, the coronavirus pandemic and much more.
Amazon wants India to play a key role in its ambitions to conquer streaming video. But the company now faces a political backlash over one of its new original ...
Frustration visibly boiled over with some Canadian leaders Tuesday as Pfizer told Canada that it would not receive any vaccine doses next week due to the ...
French President Emmanuel Macron hoped on Tuesday that U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will show a greater military commitment to fight against Islamic ...
The 22 miners stuck 2000 feet underground have been sent medicine and other basics, and now their requests are getting more specific as the rescue drags on.
LONDON—The global coronavirus pandemic has intensified the rivalry between the U.S. and China, increasing future instability in international diplomatic ...
The coronavirus has exposed the “catastrophic effects” of ignoring long-term risks such as pandemics, and the economic and political consequences could ...
A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.
About one in eight people in the community in England would have been expected to test positive for coronavirus antibodies in December, data suggests, ...
President-elect Biden plans to end the Trump administration's travel ban on Muslim-majority countries on Day 1. But immigrant advocates say the lasting effects ...
Bangkok (CNN) A 43-year prison sentence given to a woman by a Thai court for insulting the monarchy could be seen as a "warning shot" to protesters ...
A court in Thailand on Tuesday sentenced a former civil servant to a record prison term of 43 years and six months for breaching the country's strict law on ...
Thai officials have filed criminal charges against a popular former politician, accusing him of defaming the monarchy by broadcasting criticism of government ...
A former civil servant in her 60s identified only as Anchan was sentenced in Thailand on Tuesday to 43 years in prison for criticizing the country's monarchy.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — With the clock winding down on his term, U.S. President Donald Trump shielded tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants from ...
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck Argentina's west-central province of San Juan on Monday night, according to a preliminary report from the United States ...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck in northwestern Argentina near the border with central Chile, injuring at least three ...
Shaking was felt as far away as Chile's capital of Santiago after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck northwestern Argentina on Monday night. Several injuries ...
A powerful earthquake struck in northwestern Argentina near the border with central Chile late Monday, shaking people in parts of both countries. There were no ...
Swarms of locusts have reached dangerous levels in parts of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. They're reproducing rapidly in part because of unusual rainfall ...
The precarious situation in the state, which has seen more than 2.1 million cases and 32000 deaths, is a threat to the gradual progress the United States is ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has braved ice-cold temperatures for an Epiphany Dip in a pool outside of Moscow, according to a video and photos posted by ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin, dressed in nothing but a pair of blue swimming trunks, immersed himself in the freezing water of a cross-shaped pool near ...
As the president comes under fire from friends and foes, his secretary of state keeps the faith with the hope of inheriting the president's loyal followers.
As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks to his political future, his turbulent tenure is characterized by investigations into his leadership and ethics.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has spent much of his long career casting Israel's Arab minority as a potential fifth column led by ...
A 17-year-old stranded snowmobiler in British Columbia had the savvy and presence of mind to build himself a snow cave as he awaited rescue, earning kudos ...
After going missing while on a snowmobile, a Canadian teenager managed to survive by building a snow cave to stay in until he was found. A 17-year-old in ...
The search for a missing teenage snowmobile in British Columbia, Canada ended with the teen's safe return home, and a pat on the back from the search and ...
Madrid (AP) -- A powerful gas explosion tore through a residential building in central Madrid on Wednesday, killing four people and ripping the facade off the ...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey on Tuesday slapped advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest over their non-compliance with a controversial new ...
Qatar has urged Gulf Arab nations to enter a dialog with Iran, saying the time was right for Doha to broker negotiations now the neighbors have begun to patch ...
My father, Salman Alodah, is among the thousands of prisoners of conscience in Saudi jails, say researcher Abdullah Alaoudh, writing with commentator ...
A married teacher accused of having sex with a 15-year-old student three times reportedly told a UK court that at 5 feet tall she was “too short” for it to have been ...
A married teacher accused of having sex with a schoolboy says the tryst could not have taken place because she was too short. Kandice Barber, 35, is being ...
Kandice Barber denies three counts of causing or inciting a child aged under 16 years to engage in a sexual act. The unidentified schoolboy claims trysts ...
Antony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden's choice to lead the State Department, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday and ...
By the end of this year, Disney fans will be able to explore every continent on Earth with the kid-friendly brand. Last week, Adventures by Disney announced the ...
