Coldplay, Justin Bieber, Jennifer Hudson, David Beckham, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. Megastars of music, film, sport, fashion and regional governance will join online events on Saturday to support the search for a coronavirus vaccine....

German Chancellor Angela Merkel sharply condemned as "abhorrent" a rampage in Stuttgart where hundreds of partygoers brutally attacked police officers, her spokesman said Monday, as concerns grow that law enforcers are increasingly treated with contempt. Hundreds of people unleashed a riot...

The World Health Organization sent out a fresh warning on Monday over the dangers of the new coronavirus even as France returned to life by staging an annual music festival and sending millions of children back to school. In spite of numerous European countries further easing their lockdown...

North Korea has millions of propaganda leaflets ready to send to the South by an aerial armada of balloons, it said Monday, heightening its rhetoric against Seoul after blowing up a liaison office. In recent weeks Pyongyang has issued a series of vitriolic condemnations of Seoul over...

Chinese and EU leaders will hold a video summit Monday amid tensions over new tariffs on Chinese firms and Beijing's actions on Hong Kong as well as concerns that Beijing will buy up European companies weakened by the Covid-19 crisis. The talks come against the backdrop of a rise in bellicose...

The United Nations Sunday released a special report expressing concerns over what it called recent "deliberate attacks" against healthcare workers and facilities in Afghanistan during the COVID-19 pandemic. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA, said it documented...

Chinese researchers have started a second phase human trial of a possible coronavirus vaccine, the Institute of Medical Biology at Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (IMBCAMS) said Sunday, in efforts to further assess effectiveness and safety. About a dozen vaccines are in different stages...

Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India and the Far East witnessed Sunday a dramatic “ring of fire” solar eclipse. So-called annular eclipses occur when the Moon—passing between Earth and the Sun—is not quite close enough to our planet to completely...

China's capital reported 22 new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday after a mass testing effort that has collected more than two million samples in a race to contain a new outbreak. The fresh cluster in Beijing has raised fears of a resurgence of the virus in China, which had largely brought...

Tulsa police say they have arrested a woman who was inside a secure area outside an arena set to host President Donald Trump’s first campaign rally during the coronavirus pandemic. The woman was seen Saturday on live video sitting cross-legged on the ground in peaceful protest when...

Turkey’s largest cities Istanbul and Ankara saw Friday the lowest number of coronavirus cases in the past week, the health minister announced. Without revealing the numbers for the cities, Fahrettin Koca said the tally of coronavirus cases in Turkey hit 185,245 with 1,214 new infections...

Already facing a legally undefined status, climate refugees must now contend with a shortage of decent medical care, as well as closed borders and international travel restrictions, making their lives excessively difficult during the global pandemic. Climate refugees, environmental...

India reported a record daily jump in the number of novel coronavirus cases Friday as the southern city of Chennai locked down following fresh outbreaks there. Given India's high population density, experts have long worried that a sustained COVID-19 outbreak would lead to pressure on its...

The United States is no longer mentioned in a draft resolution before the UN Human Rights Council condemning systemic racism and police brutality, a revised version of the text showed Friday. The UN's top rights body is due to vote Friday afternoon on a draft resolution initially presented...

The Taliban on Friday played down concerns that Afghanistan could be used as a launching ground for future attacks on the West, after the US said it had so far upheld its pledge to reduce its military presence in the country. The top US commander for the region said it cut the number of...

The recent border clashes between India and China in the Western Himalyas that led to the death of 20 Indian soldiers earlier this week, have prompted a hardening of anti-China sentiment in India that the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, cannot ignore. India has traditionally been a non-aligned...

In vowing to pull thousands of American troops from Germany, President Donald Trump is following a pattern of disruptive, sometimes punitive, moves against allies that have dismayed his fellow Republicans and cast doubt across the globe about the future of partnering with the United States....

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Friday accepted the resignation of his point man on North Korea, who had asked to quit after the North destroyed a liaison office while ramping up pressure against Seoul amid stalled nuclear negotiations with the Trump administration. Kim Yeon-chul,...

Facebook Inc said Thursday it took down posts and ads run by the re-election campaign of US President Donald Trump for violating its policy against organized hate. The ads showed a red inverted triangle with text asking Facebook users to sign a petition against antifa, a loosely organized...

John Bolton, the former US national security advisor, is making explosive allegations about President Donald Trump in a new memoir, "The Room Where It Happened." Trump has denounced the book as "pure fiction" -- but his administration has sought to block it on the grounds that it contains...