In Brazil, health care workers are on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic in more ways than one, treating patients but also volunteering to test some of the most promising experimental vaccines. Brazil is the country with the second-highest number of infections and deaths in the...

President Donald Trump's administration announced Wednesday it is expanding a controversial deployment of federal agents to three more US cities - Cleveland, Detroit and Milwaukee - to tackle a spike in crime. In a statement announcing the move, Attorney General Bill Barr said all three...

Coronavirus cases reached 871,970 in Africa on Wednesday, according to a daily update by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). At least 18,475 people have died of the virus across 54 countries on the continent, the latest figures showed, while 523,475 patients...

Afghans welcomed a three-day ceasefire Wednesday but demanded it be made permanent, after the government and the Taliban said they would observe a truce that could kickstart peace talks as soon as next week. The foes announced a temporary stoppage in Afghanistan's war Tuesday, marking only...

President Donald Trump is painting a dystopian portrait of what Joe Biden’s America might look like, asserting crime and chaos would ravage communities should the former vice president win the White House in November. Left unsaid: A recent surge in violent crime in several American cities...

A half-dozen US states in the South and West reported one-day records for coronavirus deaths Tuesday and cases in Texas passed the 400,000 mark as California health officials said Latinos made up more than half its cases. Arkansas, California, Florida, Montana, Oregon and Texas each...

China reported 101 new coronavirus cases Wednesday, its highest single-day figure in three months, as gyms, bars and museums closed in infection hotspots. Of the new cases, 98 were domestic infections, mostly in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, where a growing cluster first discovered...

The novel coronavirus is neither seasonal, nor does it occur in waves, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday. WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said in answer to questions at the twice-weekly UN press briefing held virtually in Geneva that the COVID-19 virus likes all weathers...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert who has led the country through multiple health crises for decades, defended his work Tuesday to protect Americans' health after the president retweeted a controversial video later removed by social media companies. "I have not...

France called Tuesday for a UN-led observer mission to evaluate the treatment of China's Uighur population and accused Beijing of "indefensible practices" against the Muslim minority. The proposal by Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian comes as tensions rise between France and China after...

Taliban announced Tuesday that they will observe a three-day ceasefire in Afghanistan for the Muslim occasion of Eid al-Adha, starting Friday, the group's spokesman said. "In order for our people to spend the three days of Eid in confidence and happiness, all fighters are instructed not to...

Malaysia's former prime minister Najib Razak was found guilty of corruption Tuesday in the first trial linked to a multi-billion dollar scandal at state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). The case has been widely seen as a test for Malaysia's efforts to stamp out corruption and could...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that Pyongyang's nuclear weapons guarantee its safety, state media reported Tuesday, signalling once again that it will not give up its arsenal. Kim was addressing a conference of veterans on the 67th anniversary of the 1953 armistice that ended Korean...

A fresh coronavirus cluster in a port city in northeast China has spread to other provinces and prompted fresh restrictions, authorities said Monday, as Beijing scrambles to prevent a second wave of infections. China had largely brought the virus under control since it first emerged in the...

President Donald Trump's national security advisor, Robert O'Brien, has tested positive for COVID-19, the White House said Monday. O'Brien, who holds a key role in the administration, "has been self-isolating and working from a secure location off site," the White House said in a statement....

The new coronavirus pandemic that has infected more than 16 million people is easily the worst global health emergency the World Health Organization (WHO) has faced, its director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday. Only with strict adherence to health measures, from wearing...

Everyone in Hong Kong will have to wear masks in public from Wednesday, authorities said, as they unveiled the city's toughest social distancing measures yet to combat a new wave of coronavirus infections. "The epidemic situation in Hong Kong is remarkably severe," Chief Secretary Matthew...

China on Monday reported its highest number of coronavirus cases in three months, part of a worrying swell of second and third-wave infections that are hitting Asia and Europe. Australia has been rocked by its deadliest surge since the start of the pandemic, Hong Kong is experiencing record...

Australia on Monday posted its highest number of new coronavirus cases since the pandemic began, even as officials expressed hope outbreaks in locked-down Melbourne may have peaked. A day after Australia reported its highest daily death toll, authorities confirmed at least 549 new COVID-19...

Protests took a violent turn in several U.S. cities over the weekend, with demonstrators squaring off against federal agents outside a courthouse in Portland, Oregon, forcing police in Seattle to retreat into a station house and setting fire to vehicles in California and Virginia. A protest...