North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered a tightening of state emergency anti-coronavirus systems in the face of the worldwide pandemic, as he presided over a meeting of the politburo of the ruling Workers Party, state news agency KCNA said on Monday. The meeting came amid economic and...

Peru's interim president, Manuel Merino, resigned on Sunday, less than a week into his new administration, after protests calling for his removal left two dead and dozens injured, plunging the country into yet another political crisis.  "I want to let the whole country know that I'm...

Iranian opposition figure Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife, under house arrest for nearly a decade, have tested positive for Covid-19, an opposition website reported on Sunday. Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard "were examined by a doctor at their home... and their general state of health...

Police in Belarus arrested at least 146 people who took to the streets on Sunday chanting “I’m going out”, the last known written words of an anti-government protester who died last week, a prominent human rights group said. A witness in the capital Minsk said police arrested several...