Unidentified masked men detained prominent Belarusian protest leader Maria Kolesnikova in central Minsk on Monday morning and drove her off in a minivan, the Belarusian Tut.By media outlet cited a witness as saying.

Julian Assange has resumed his battle in a London court to avoid extradition to the United States to face criminal charges over the activities of his WikiLeaks website, after months of delay due to the coronavirus lockdown.

The European Union aims to impose economic sanctions on 31 senior Belarus officials including the country’s interior minister by mid-September, three EU diplomats said, in response to an August 9 election that the West says was rigged.

China has put its homegrown coronavirus vaccines on display for the first time, as the country where the contagion was discovered looks to shape the narrative surrounding the pandemic.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has given an October 15 deadline for a post-Brexit trade agreement with the European Union, brushing off fears about "no-deal" chaos if talks fail.

Powerful Typhoon Haishen approached South Korea on Monday after slamming southern Japan with record winds and heavy rains that prompted evacuation warnings for millions.

Britain yesterday said Russia had “a very serious set of questions to answer” about the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, suggesting

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas yesterday said that an “unscrupulous” President Donald Trump was trying to sow doubt about the US presidential election by urging his supporters to vote twice, which is illegal.

India added more than 90,000 cases of the novel coronavirus yesterday, a global daily record, according to data from the federal health ministry.

An endorsement from the bin Laden family is hardly the most coveted prize on the campaign trail, but Noor bin Ladin, niece of the 9/11 mastermind, said she is backing President Trump, claiming only he can save Western civilization.

Nearly 100 people were arrested by Hong Kong police yesterday as riot officers swooped on democracy protesters opposed to the postponement of local elections.

Police said they were searching for a man in relation to a two-hour stabbing spree in the city of Birmingham, central England, early yesterday, that left one man dead and seven people injured, two of them critically.

Tens of thousands of people have marched through Minsk calling on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to step down, in mass demonstrations that showed no sign of abating nearly a month after an election his opponents say was rigged.

Philippine police drew criticism from netizens and activists on Sunday for a plan to monitor social media to enforce quarantine rules, with critics accusing the authorities of authoritarianism and double standards.

Police said they were searching for a man in relation to a two-hour stabbing spree in the city of Birmingham, central England, early on Sunday, that left one man dead and seven people injured, two of them critically.

A powerful typhoon began to lash southern Japan on Sunday, with officials warning it could bring record rainfall and winds strong enough to snap power line poles and flip cars.

Australia's coronavirus hot spot state of Victoria on Sunday extended a hard lockdown in its capital Melbourne until September 28, as the infection rate has declined more slowly than hoped.

Facebook has blocked a terminally ill French euthanasia campaigner from livestreaming his own death.

Michael Cohen’s tell-all memoir makes the case that President Donald Trump is “guilty of the same crimes” that landed his former fixer in federal prison, offering a blow-by-blow account of Trump’s alleged role in a hush money scandal that once overshadowed his presidency.

Facebook yesterday said it would block the livestream of a Frenchman suffering from an incurable condition who wanted to broadcast his death on the social media platform.