Britain’s government announced Wednesday that it will open a new special pathway to obtaining UK citizenship for eligible Hong Kongers from January 2021, taking another step toward solidifying a policy denounced by China. In a statement, the Home Office said holders of the British National...

 Democratic candidate Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by eight percentage points in support among registered voters, and the former vice president appears to have a significant advantage among voters who are undecided, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll. The July 15-21...

The coronavirus death toll in the United States has spiked again with Donald Trump conceding the pandemic crisis will get worse, as record infections in Australia underscored second-wave dilemmas globally. Nearly 15 million cases have been confirmed and 615,000 lives lost since the virus...

Mexico on Tuesday passed 40,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus pandemic as the country, which has the fourth-highest Covid-19 death toll in the world, struggles to contain the disease. A daily technical report recorded a total of 40,400 deaths from the virus, after adding 915 more...

The World Health Organization said Tuesday it is facing a "serious funding gap" to battle the new outbreak of Ebola in remote corners of northern Congo amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. The $1.75 million raised so far will only last for a few more weeks, the WHO warned, adding that the...

Brazil reported 632 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus over the past day, according to statistics from the Health Ministry released on Tuesday. The total count of coronavirus-related deaths rose to 80,120 in the country. A total of 20,257 more infections were confirmed across...

An armed man seized a long-distance bus and took people in it hostage in northwestern Ukraine Tuesday launching an hours-long standoff with police, Ukrainian authorities said. About 10 people are currently being held hostage, Ukraine's Security Service said in a Facebook statement. Police...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo holds talks with one of America’s closes allies Tuesday as growing tensions with China dominate international affairs. Pompeo is set to meet with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Domnic Raab just hours after Britain suspended its...

Democrat Joe Biden urged Muslim Americans Monday to join him in the fight to defeat President Donald Trump as he addressed an online summit hosted by the advocacy organization Emgage Action to mobilize Muslim voters ahead of the presidential election. "I want to earn your vote not just...

With monikers as divergent as the "Professor" and the "Destroyer", the Islamic State group's new head has a reputation for brutality, but otherwise remains largely an enigma. Amir Mohammed Said Abd al-Rahman al-Mawla replaced Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after his death in a raid by US special...

South Korea's first-ever military communications satellite has been successfully launched by private operator SpaceX, Seoul said Tuesday, as it looks to build up its defence capabilities. The ANASIS-II is intended to enhance the South's ability to defend itself against the nuclear-armed...

President Donald Trump changed his tune in favor of face masks as a tool to combat the coronavirus in the United States, as European leaders on Tuesday agreed on a massive aid package for their pandemic-ravaged economies. The virus has infected more than 14.6 million people and killed over...

 Investigators examining the black boxes from the Ukrainian jet accidentally shot down by Iran have recovered its cockpit voice data, France's BEA accident investigation bureau said. Iranian forces say they brought down the Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) jet, a Boeing 737, on...

German biotech firm BioNTech and US drugmaker Pfizer Monday reported additional data from their experimental COVID-19 vaccine that showed it was safe and induced an immune response in patients. BioNtech's US shares gained 12 percent, while Pfizer's stock rose 3.6 percent in early trading....

The coronavirus pandemic threw tens of millions of Americans out of work, ended the longest US economic recovery on record and undermined a key argument for President Donald Trump's re-election. Now, the Republican president and his Democratic opponent in the Nov. 3 election, Joe Biden,...

US rapper Kanye West broke down in tears Sunday at the chaotic launch of his unlikely campaign to oust Donald Trump as president in November elections. Wearing a bullet-proof jacket marked "security," West gave a rambling speech in which he claimed he had wanted his wife, Kim Kardashian, to...

Afghans shared accounts of violence linked to the Taliban on social media with the hashtag phrase 'don't redeem the Taliban' with anxiety growing as the United States prepares to withdraw troops and attempts to usher peace talks with the militant group. The accounts of alleged violence and...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un berated officials for their "careless" construction of a flagship hospital in Pyongyang and ordered those responsible to be sacked, state media reported Monday. The North has long used giant infrastructure projects to try to burnish the government's...

Britain and China issued new salvos of criticism against each other Sunday, with the U.K. foreign secretary hinting that he may suspend the U.K.’s extradition arrangements with Hong Kong over China's moves against the city-state.  Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also accused Beijing of...

President Donald Trump is refusing to publicly commit to accepting the results of the upcoming White House election, recalling a similar threat he made weeks before the 2016 vote, as he scoffs at polls showing him lagging behind Democrat Joe Biden. Trump says it's too early to make such an...