Government airstrikes in the north of Afghanistan killed 24 civilians, including children, and wounded six others, witnesses told The Associated Press Sunday. The two witnesses contacted by the AP said that most of those killed in Saturday's airstrikes, which struck the village of Sayed...

Tens of thousands of opposition supporters marched in the Belarusian capital of Minsk Sunday despite authorities deploying a heavy police presence. The protest came a day after officers detained hundreds of demonstrators at a women's march in the capital. The opposition movement has...

As the coronavirus pandemic began bearing down on the United States in March, President Donald Trump set out his expectations. If the US could keep the death toll between 100,000 to 200,000 people, Trump said, it would indicate that his administration had "done a very good job." In the...

Nearly a million Madrid residents were bracing Sunday for a partial lockdown as Spanish authorities seek to put a brake on a second wave of Covid-19. The restrictions, which kick off Monday for two weeks, affect 850,000 people living mainly in densely-populated, low-income neighbourhoods in...