Italy's prime minister Giuseppe Conte resisted pressure to impose a new economically-damaging national lockdown Monday despite spiking virus cases, instead proposing a regional approach that would target the hardest-hit areas. Reports had suggested Conte would push for a nationwide...

Russia's attempt to overturn its four-year ban from international sport got under way in Lausanne Monday, the latest chapter of a long-running and controversial saga over state-sanctioned doping. Global anti-doping body WADA in December last year declared the Russian Anti-Doping Agency...

At least eight people were wounded when gunmen stormed Kabul University Monday during an Iranian book fair, firing shots and sending students fleeing, Afghan officials and witnesses said. "The enemies of Afghanistan, the enemies of education... have entered Kabul University," Tariq Arian, a...

More than 50,000 people took part Monday in the biggest demonstration yet in Bangladesh over French President Emmanuel Macron's defense of the right to publish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The rally which started at Bangladesh's biggest mosque was stopped from getting close to the...