Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam cheered the city’s “return to stability” during China national day celebrations on Thursday, as hundreds of police in riot gear patrolled the route of a banned anti-government march by pro-democracy activists. Protesters wanted to march against Beijing’s...

President Donald Trump's administration said late Wednesday the United States will admit a record low of no more than 15,000 refugees over the coming year despite surging global displacement, stepping up its hard line one month before elections. The State Department announced the number...

India’s coronavirus cases crossed the 6.3 million mark Thursday as the country recorded more than 86,000 new infections.  The Health Ministry said in its latest update that 86,821 cases were reported in the last 24 hours, taking the country's total to 6,312,584. A total of 1,181...

Dozens of Syrians demonstrated in Idlib, a city in northwestern Syria, to mark five years of Russia’s intervention in the civil war supporting Bashar Al-Assad's regime.  The protesters who stood amid the rubble of houses destroyed by Russian bombing raised slogans such as "the...