As the novel coronavirus continues to ravage Latin America, the death toll in Brazil topped 34,000 on Friday and passed 12,500 in Mexico. In Brazil, 1,473 more fatalities over the past 24 hours raised the death toll to 34,021, according to the Health Ministry. The total case count in...

The head of Iran's semiofficial ISNA news agency has been convicted over publishing an article that quotes a former ambassador criticizing Tehran's "arbitrary" intelligence operations in Europe, a journalism watchdog group said Friday. It was unclear what sentence was handed down to ISNA...

Australian police on Friday moved to ban a Black Lives Matter protest planned in Sydney, citing the risk of spreading the coronavirus. Around 10,000 people are expected to march in Sydney on Saturday to express solidarity with US protestors and demand an end to frequent Aboriginal deaths in...

At least 194 asylum seekers en route to Europe were returned by the Libyan coast guard to Tripoli, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Thursday.  The asylum seekers included women and children, according to IOM, who noted that “staff were at the disembarkation...

State-backed hackers from China have targeted staffers working on the US presidential campaign of Democrat Joe Biden, a senior Google security official said Thursday. The same official said Iranian hackers had recently targeted email accounts belonging to Republican President Donald Trump's...

A top Twitter executive refused Thursday to rule out suspending Donald Trump's account if the US president continued posting incendiary messages such as those about the George Floyd protests. Trump has relied on Twitter to get out his message without submitting himself to questions from...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared on Thursday that Canada is winning the fight against the new coronavirus, with the latest data showing new cases in decline. But he also warned that the battle is not over yet. "The data shows that we are continuing to make progress in the fight...

Hundreds of mourners Thursday attended the funeral of Nabil Hasan al-Quaety, a Yemeni videographer who contributed to AFP, two days after he was killed in the southern city of Aden. Raising his portrait and describing him as a "martyr", angry crowds shouted slogans calling for freedom of...

 Lebanon will agree next week on unified figures for losses in its financial system, the presidency said, seeking to reconcile different approaches taken by the government and central bank that have complicated IMF negotiations. The U.N. special coordinator for Lebanon, Jan Kubis, said...

 Egyptian authorities have said they will prosecute the father of three girls who they say were tricked into undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) and the doctor who performed the surgery. The public prosecutor's office said the girls, who were all minors, had been told the doctor...

Jordan said Thursday it would reopen hotels and cafes, allow sporting events without spectators and shorten a night curfew as of Saturday, further easing its coronavirus lockdown that has hit the aid-dependent economy. But Prime Minister Omar al-Razzaz told reporters that while Jordan had...

 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged allies Thursday to step up funding to defeat Daesh (ISIS), despite a budget crunch caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The United States and Italy led a meeting of 31 nations on fighting the extremists, held virtually due to precautions to stop the...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday warned that coronavirus could further weaken sub-Saharan Africa's ability to adapt to climate change, as measures to contain the pandemic stretch limited resources. A recent study on the impact of rising temperatures and extreme weather...

US Navy veteran Michael White has been freed and left Iran nearly two years after his arrest, his mother said Thursday, following the US release of an Iranian scientist. "I am blessed to announce that the nightmare is over, and my son is safely on his way home," Joanne White said in a...

Libya's UN-recognised government said Thursday it was back in full control of Tripoli and its suburbs, capping a string of victories against eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar and vowing to take the whole country. "Our heroic forces have full control of Greater Tripoli right up to the city...

Tunisians returned to mosques and cafes Thursday as the country ended most lockdown restrictions after largely containing the spread of the novel coronavirus for now. Sitting with friends at the Brazil coffee shop in the Ibn Khaldoun district of Tunis, schoolteacher Nizar Jamal said he was...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called for a "new era of global health co-operation" as he prepared to host a vaccine fundraising summit on Thursday under the shadow of coronavirus. The virtual meeting aims to raise $7.4 billion for immunisation programmes stalled by the pandemic, and...

Iran announced 3,574 new coronavirus infections Thursday, its highest daily count since the outbreak began in February. It was the fourth straight day that the daily caseload had topped 3,000. The previous high was 3,186, recorded on March 30, at the height of the initial outbreak....

France said Thursday it will not hold the Bastille Day military parade due to social distancing norms, replacing it with a ceremony to pay tribute to health workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Rather than the traditional march of soldiers and display of military hardware down the...

Rohingya refugees infected with coronavirus are fleeing quarantine in their Bangladesh camps because they fear being transferred to an isolated island in the Bay of Bengal, community leaders said Thursday. At least two infected refugees have gone missing since testing positive for the virus...