The death toll from a tornado outbreak that ravaged the South rose to at least 34 on Tuesday as Mississippi officials said a 12th person had died there. The storms claimed lives in at least six states, and the National Weather Service said preliminary assessments found evidence that at...

Forest fires raged Tuesday in the contaminated area near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, but officials insisted there is no radiation threat. Hundreds of firefighters backed by aircraft have been battling several forest fires around Chernobyl since last week. They managed to contain the...

Bahrain said Monday that state-owned Gulf Air has begun flying to Iran to repatriate Bahrainis stranded there due to the coronavirus crisis, the first direct flights between the two countries in four years. More than a thousand Bahrainis, most of them pilgrims visiting Shi'ite Muslim...

The coronavirus outbreak could reach its peak in the United States this week, a top U.S. health official said Monday as more signs of stabilization emerged, but political leaders said a reopening of the economy may hinge on more widespread testing. The United States, with the world's...