A sweeping national security law that will soon be imposed on Hong Kong will be "like installing anti-virus software", a top Beijing official said Monday, in a speech that warned democracy protesters had gone "too far". The comments by Zhang Xiaoming, deputy director of the Hong Kong and...

Three leaders have been left dominating the jihadist insurgency in the Sahel, following the death of a top al Qaeda commander in the West African state of Mali this week. French forces killed Algerian national Abdelmalek Droukdel, the head of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), in a...

The total number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 7 million early Monday, according to a running tally by US-based Johns Hopkins University. The university's data showed that the global tally of fatalities had reached 402,730, while the number of recoveries...

A storm causing heavy rain and coastal flooding in the southern state of Louisiana is expected to weaken into a tropical depression in "the next several hours," the US National Hurricane Center said Monday. Tropical Storm Cristobal was packing maximum sustained winds of 50 miles per hour...