Japan's parliament elected Yoshihide Suga as the country's new prime minister on Wednesday. Suga, a close confidante of outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on Monday was elected to lead the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). He won the votes of 314 members of the parliament...

India surpassed the 5 million mark in coronavirus cases Wednesday as the country continues to battle the spread of the disease.    Health Ministry figures showed that 90,123 fresh cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of infections in the country to...

A former gravedigger has given horrific testimony regarding war crimes in Syria to a German court, describing mass killing on a scale reminiscent of Nazi Germany. In his three hour testimony earlier this week, the gravedigger told the court in the German city of Koblenz that he spent...

Spain broke two grim milestones on Tuesday, with coronavirus cases surging to beyond 600,000 and related deaths passing the 30,000 mark. Over the past month, Spain has become the worst-affected European Union country in terms of confirmed cases. France, with the second-highest number of...