During one of the most politically divisive years in recent memory, the number of active hate groups in the U.S. actually declined as far-right extremists migrated further to online networks, reflecting a splintering of white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups that are more difficult to track....

WUHAN, China (AP) — A World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited two disease control centers on Monday that had an early hand in managing the outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. The WHO investigators arrived in Wuhan, the...

MOSCOW (AP) — The Moscow police plan to stifle an opposition protest by clamping down on the center of the city backfired — not only did the massive demonstration take place, but it was spread throughout a wide swath of the city. Moscow police always come out strong for unauthorized protest...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A member of the Afghan government's peace negotiating team Sunday warned the Taliban that if they don't resume peace talks in Qatar soon, the government could recall the team before a deal is reached. Government negotiator Rasul Talib said in a news conference the...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic has been hard on both kids and adults. But what about those who are in between? Demographic shifts during the last century have given rise to a distinct developmental stage called “emerging adulthood.” Spanning the late teens and early 20s, it’s...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The abstract figures of naked women gyrating to the rhythms of a five-piece band had shocked many people almost 60 years ago as they eyed the artwork for the first time on the walls of a popular restaurant-nightclub in Cyprus. The valuable and very rare concrete relief...

Two car bombs went off two hours apart in the northwestern town of Azaz and another village some 50 kilometers (30 miles) away. The explosions in the areas controlled by Syrian opposition fighters allied with Turkey killed six civilians, including one child in Azaz, and six fighters at...

One Syrian was killed on Sunday and four injured after Kurdish security forces opened fire at pro-regime demonstrators in a northeastern city, state media said. The state news agency SANA said the Kurdish forces opened fire at demonstrators protesting the siege on their neighborhood in...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis on Sunday thronged the funeral of a prominent rabbi in Jerusalem, flouting the country's ban on large public gatherings during the pandemic. The funeral procession for Rabbi Meshulam Soloveitchik, who died at age 99, wended its way...

Israel has agreed to transfer 5,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine to the Palestinians to immunize front-line medical workers, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz's office announced Sunday. It was the first time that Israel has confirmed the transfer of vaccines to the Palestinians,...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government has privately told Biden administration staffers its embattled Tigray region has “returned to normalcy,” but new witness accounts describe terrified Tigray residents hiding in bullet-marked homes and a vast rural area where effects of the fighting and...

While millions of Americans wait for the COVID-19 vaccine, hospital board members, their trustees and donors around the country have gotten early access to the scarce drug or offers for vaccinations, raising complaints about favoritism tainting decisions about who gets inoculated and when....

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Biden administration considers whether it should pull remaining U.S. troops out of Afghanistan in the coming months, some fear for the fate of an American who could be left behind: an abducted contractor believed held by a Taliban-linked militant group. On the...

At least five people have been killed and more than 20 wounded when a car bomb detonated in the northern Syrian town of Afrin, according to the Turkish defence ministry. The ministry said in a statement the explosion took place on Saturday in an industrial site at the centre of the town...

If Armenia joins a six-country regional platform, she will benefit from regional opportunities, reach economic stability and its dependence on the West will decrease, which will be favorable for Russia, experts said Friday.  Countries in the region supported Turkish President Recep...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged India and Pakistan to “come together” and solve their problems as any military confrontation would be a disaster.  “Our good offices are always available [for mediation] and we will insist within it… finding peaceful solutions for problems...

France will not enforce a new lockdown but will close borders for non-European Union countries beginning Sunday in a bid to control rising coronavirus infections, the prime minister announced late Friday.  Jean Castex announced the border decision after a last-minute health defense...

UN General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir stressed common ground between nations Friday as he stressed the need for working together to overcome global crises like the coronavirus pandemic.  "We must work together to overcome this devastating pandemic and its impacts to provide...

A Russian court ordered house arrest Friday for the brother and aides of jailed Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny.  At Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, a hearing was held on grounds that the rules of sanitary and epidemiological were violated during unauthorized...

In a last-minute bid to try to solve Italy’s political impasse, the nation’s leader asked the Lower House speaker to explore the possibility to revive the collapsed ruling coalition, mediating between the conflicting parties. After three days of consultations with Italian party leaders,...