The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak has climbed to 259, the National Health Commission said Saturday. A total of 11,791 confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the coronavirus (2019-nCoV) have been reported in China. It was reported that 46 people have died in the...

Waad al-Kateab, the director of Oscar-nominated Syrian film "For Sama," demonstrated outside the United Nations headquarters on Thursday to denounce the bombings of hospitals in her war-torn country. "Shame, UN, shame," "Shame, (UN Secretary-General Antonio) Guterres, shame," chanted the...

Thirty-six people have been killed in a suspected militia attack in the eastern DR Congo region of Beni, where hundreds have died in violence since November, a local official said Wednesday. Congolese troops have been carrying out a military operation on an armed group in the east of the...

The death toll in China from the novel coronavirus outbreak has climbed to 170, the National Health Commission said Thursday. Some 7,711 confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the coronavirus, also known as 2019-nCoV, have been reported in China. It was reported that 38 people have died...