The government of Spain's Catalonia region on Sunday ordered residents in and around the northeastern town of Lerida to go back into home confinement as cases of coronavirus spiked. "The people must stay at home," regional health official Alba Verges told a news conference. The area,...

Recoveries from the novel coronavirus in Russia crossed half a million on Sunday. Over the last 24 hours, 3,615 people were discharged from hospitals, bringing the number of cured patients to 501,061, the country’s emergency task force said in a daily report. Over the same period,...

Voters in Poland headed to the polls on Sunday for the second round of presidential election after no candidate achieved the 50% needed for an all-out victory in the first round. Poland's President Andrzej Duda topped the first round of voting with 43.5% while his rival Rafal Trzaskowski,...

Russia's forest service said there were nearly 300 wildfires blazing across the vast country's northern wilderness on Saturday, as it attempted to contain them with methods including explosives and cloud seeding. Freakishly warm weather across large swathes of Siberia since January,...