Tokyo is on its highest coronavirus alert level after a spike in new cases, the city's governor warned Wednesday, as experts said the rising infections were a clear "red flag". However, the move to a "red" alert does not mean the city will ask businesses to close or events to be postponed....

A key organiser of primary elections for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy camp said on Wednesday he was stepping down after Beijing said the vote may violate the new national security law and could amount to subversion. Former democracy lawmaker Au Nok-hin helped organise the weekend poll that...

The Libyan army announced Wednesday that a total of 225 bodies have been unearthed from mass graves in the south of the capital Tripoli and in the city of Tarhuna and its surrounding areas in 40 days. The corpses were found in areas liberated from eastern Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar's...

One person was killed and four people wounded in a missile attack by regime forces on northern Idlib province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl.  The attack that targeted the town of Ariha has also wounded a woman and three children. In its turn, Russia's warplanes have pounded...