Hong Kong's police watchdog Friday exonerated officers for their handling of violent democracy protests last year, concluding that public anger towards the city's force was the result of online smear campaigns. The report by the Independent Police Complaints Council (IPCC) into the protests...

Dr. Marwa al-Khafaji’s homecoming after 20 days in a hospital isolation ward was met by spite. Someone had barricaded her family home’s gate with a concrete block. The message from the neighbors was clear: She had survived coronavirus, but the stigma surrounding the disease would be a...

Formula One's Belgian Grand Prix could be raced behind closed doors on August 30, local authorities announced on Friday. Despite a ban on mass gatherings in the country until August 31 due to the coronavirus pandemic, Wallonia's Minister-President Elio Di Rupo said the event could go ahead....

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday rejected German Chancellor Angela Merkel's accusations that Russian hackers had spied on her. "Five years have passed. Not a single concrete fact has been provided," Lavrov said in a live interview with Russia's RBK media group.