On the doorstep of a terraced house in northern England, virus hunter Colin Hutchinson came face-to-face with the new wave of COVID-19, and the obstacles to slowing its spread. A retired surgeon, Hutchinson is part of a local team of “contact tracers” in Halifax, Yorkshire, that aims to...

Twenty-nine people were killed Tuesday by explosives in three separate incidents in parts of north Syria along the border with Turkey, a war monitor said. There was no immediate link between the two car bombings near Al-Bab and in Afrin that killed a total of eight people, or the incident...

Spain suffered its deadliest day since mid-April in the novel coronavirus outbreak on Tuesday, with the Health Ministry reporting another 537 fatalities. Spain's official COVID-19 death toll now sits at 43,668 -- up nearly 2,000 from one week ago. Although deaths continue to mount at...

 The United States pledged $600 million in civilian aid to Afghanistan next year at a key donor conference on Tuesday, but made half of it conditional on progress in U.S.-brokered peace talks underway with the Taliban. Dozens of nations, international institutions and the European...