At least seven people were injured by gunfire in Louisville, Kentucky during protests to demand justice for the death of Breonna Taylor, a black woman killed in police raid in March. Hundreds took to the streets of Louisville Thursday night to demand conviction of police officers involved...

Twitter labeled Friday US President Donald Trump's tweet on Minneapolis with a warning of "glorifies violence." "....These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way....

Russia saw a record rise in coronavirus-related deaths on Friday as 232 fatalities were registered in the country over the past day, raising the death toll to 4,374. Fatalities spiked for a second day in a row, according to data published by the country's emergency task force formed to curb...

Williams revealed on Friday that they are considering selling the Formula One team after a multi-million pound drop in the company's financial results. The William Grand Prix Holdings group reported an adjusted loss of £13 million ($15.9 million) for the year ending 2019. After posting...

Iran on Friday announced its highest number of new coronavirus infections in nearly two months and warned the Middle East's deadliest outbreak was worsening in some regions. The government has largely lifted the closures it imposed after Iran's first cases were confirmed in February but has...

Dozens of scientists have raised concerns over a large-scale study of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine that led to the World Health Organization suspending clinical trials of the anti-viral drugs as a potential treatment for COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine, normally used to treat arthritis,...

Britain cannot run its COVID-19 jobs protection scheme indefinitely and needs to start tapering it down as people slowly return to work, environment minister George Eustice said on Friday. “The furlough scheme has been incredibly important in terms of keeping people on standby and ready to...

Oil prices edged lower on Friday, set to post their first weekly fall in five weeks, after U.S. inventory data showed lacklustre fuel demand in the world’s largest oil consumer while worsening U.S.-China tensions weighed on global financial markets. Brent crude slipped 43 cents, or 1.2%, to...

China said there was no need for a third party to mediate between China and India in an ongoing border dispute, when asked about U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer to mediate. Foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian made the comments a daily briefing Friday.

Turkey's economy grew 4.5% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2020, the country's statistical authority announced Friday. According to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), gross domestic product (GDP) at current prices amounted to 1.07 trillion Turkish liras ($176.1 billion) in...

The Venezuelan navy said it escorted a fourth tanker bringing Iranian fuel through its waters Thursday, while the United States called the shipments to the gasoline-starved country a distraction from problems facing President Nicolas Maduro. The oil industries of Iran and Venezuela are both...

New Zealand had all but eradicated the coronavirus from its shores Friday with just one person in the nation of 5 million known to be still infected, but developments elsewhere were generally grim, with India reporting another record increase in cases and Pakistan a record number of deaths....

The US embassy in Israel issued a security alert for the Palestinian territories Thursday, amid increased tensions over the Jewish state's plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. The embassy advised its citizens living or travelling in the West Bank or Gaza to "maintain a high level...

Hundreds of Tunisians protested Thursday in at least seven cities to demand jobs, heaping pressure on a government facing the worse economic crisis in more than 60 years due to the coronavirus pandemic. In the southern city of Gafsa, a witnesses said hundreds of university graduates...

UN chief Antonio Guterres called Thursday for debt relief to be offered to all developing and middle-income countries amid the coronavirus pandemic and urged the International Monetary Fund to consider boosting global liquidity by issuing a new allocation of its Special Drawing Rights (SDR)...

The Premier League season will restart on June 17, the BBC reported Thursday. A spokesman for the Premier League, which stopped play in March, declined to comment as the meeting of 20 club officials was ongoing. The season will get under way on the Wednesday date with Aston Villa v...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Palestinians living in the Jordan Valley will remain in what he described as an "enclave" after Israel annexes the territory and will not be granted Israeli citizenship. Netanyahu has vowed to press ahead with plans to annex the...

State-owned Kuwait Airways said Thursday it will lay off 1,500 expatriate employees due to "significant difficulties" caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The loss-making national carrier, which has a total of some 6,925 employees, has struggled amid the regional and worldwide downturn in...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned the United States Thursday against its naval presence in the Gulf as they received 110 new combat vessels. The vessels included Ashura-class speedboats, Zolfaghar coastal patrol boats and Taregh submarines, state television reported. "We announce today...

The US coronavirus death toll passed 100,000, as some countries reimposed social distancing rules following a resurgence of cases that raised the specter of a dreaded second wave of infections. The economic fallout from the pandemic was again laid bare Thursday as airlines reported fresh...