World

This week Russia reported record numbers of coronavirus deaths for five days in a row, registering 697 Covid-19 fatalities on Saturday.

Much of Japan is currently in its annual rainy season, which lasts several weeks and often causes floods and landslides, prompting local authorities to issue evacuation orders.

Environmentalists criticized Mexicos stateowned oil company Saturday after a gas leak at an underwater pipeline unleashed a subaquatic fireball that appeared to boil the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

The last team to beat England is the next team theyll play: Denmark.

A twoyearold migrant boy found abandoned in Mexico earlier this week had left Honduras with his father, a Honduran consulate official said on Friday.

Cocaptains Shannon Parry and Sharni Williams are among five players returning to the defending champion Australia womens rugby sevens side for the Tokyo Olympics.

Police arrested Javier Tarazona, director of Venezuelan human rights nongovernmental group Fundaredes, two days after he held a news conference in Caracas alleging links between members of the government and illegal armed groups from Colombia.

MEXICO CITY In The Forever Purge, the bloodbath lasts more than 12 hours and takes place on the border between Mexico and the United States. Mexican director Everardo Gout uses the strengths of fellow countrymen actors Ana de la Reguera and Tenoch Huerta...

The Paris local government will buy the Bataclan venue from Lagardere, government official Emmanuel Gregoire on Friday, noting the city's long history with the site, where more than 80 concertgoers were killed during a November 2015 Islamist militant atta...

Slovenian President Borut Pahor said Friday he will travel to Bulgaria next week to try and resolve a dispute holding back European Union accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania.

All US and NATO troops leave Bagram air base in Afghanistan, says US defence official.

The criminal tax fraud charges unsealed against Donald Trumps company Thursday are a blow to a business already reeling from canceled deals following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on hotels and clubs.

President Joe Biden will hold a naturalization ceremony Friday at the White House in which 21 immigrants will become citizens as the administration pushes for more pathways to citizenship.

NORTHWEST-HEAT WAVE-EXPLAINER - Map This digital embed outpoints US locations where their all-time reported temperature records were broken within the last two weeks. Map displays the latest NOAA data available and will be updated weekly until the end of...

In his address, Xi also said that integrating Taiwan with the Chinese mainland is a historic mission of the party.

In the summer of 1921 Mao and a clutch of Marxist-Leninist thinkers in Shanghai founded the party which has since morphed into one of the world's most powerful political organisations.