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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 outbreak since the start of the pandemic two…

Civilians trapped inside Mariupol desperately scrounged for food and fuel as Russian forces kept up their bombardment of the port city Thursday, while satellite photos showed that a massive Kremlin convoy that had been mired outside the…

Scott Morrison faces protests in the flood-wrecked city of Lismore for its slow response to the worst flooding in decades.

UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet says the Belarusian government is continuing its crackdown on opponents, media, and others.

While most of the world is shunning President Vladimir Putin over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, one of the few leaders keeping an open line of communication is French President Emmanuel Macron.

The official global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed 6 million on Monday — underscoring that the pandemic, now entering its third year, is far from over.

Russia announced yet another cease-fire and a handful of humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to flee Ukraine starting Monday, although the evacuation routes were mostly leading to Russia and its ally Belarus, drawing withering…

Russian troops Friday seized the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe after a middle-of-the-night attack that set it on fire and briefly raised worldwide fears of a catastrophe in the most chilling turn yet in Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

The US Supreme Court has re-imposed the death sentence for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, reversing an earlier appeals court ruling to void it.

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that France and its partners will propose in the coming hours a set of concrete measures to boost the safety and security of Ukraine's five main nuclear energy sites, based on the…

Thirty-two of the 47 UN Human Rights Council members voted in favour of the resolution brought by Ukraine.

African bloc says all people have the right to cross international borders during the conflict as the Ukraine-Russia war continues.

Most who died were security guards or staff who were on overnight duty at the La Mirada Mall in Damascus.

Ukraine has appealed to Turkey to block Russian warships from passing through the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits which lead to the Black Sea.

President Joe Biden has nominated the United States appeals court judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman to serve on the US Supreme Court, the White House said.