There are currently 65 reporters held as hostages around the world, all but one of them in the Middle East, according to the annual round-up by Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) of journalists detained, killed, held hostage and missing. Of those held, 44 are in Syria, 11 in Iraq and nine in...

At least 27 people were feared killed on Friday when a fire broke out in a commercial building in a shopping district in the Japanese city of Osaka. Police were investigating the cause of the fire on the fourth floor of the eight-storey building for suspected arson, Kyodo News reported,...

LONDON (AP) — Spiraling infections in Britain driven in part by the new omicron variant of the coronavirus rattled many in Europe on Thursday, fueling a familiar dread that tighter restrictions will scuttle holiday plans again this year. Much remains unknown about omicron, but increasingly...

With more cases of the omicron coronavirus variant are being reported across Europe, countries are bracing for a new wave and weighing additional measures. “There is a tidal wave of omicron coming,” UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday warned, urging citizens to receive COVID-19...