Nearly 50,000 people have died from the coronavirus in Brazil, the world No. 2 hotspot, with 1,022 fatalities in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry has said.

A top US federal prosecutor whose office has been investigating President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, on Friday refused to step down after the administration abruptly said it was replacing him.

Britain, France and Germany said they would not back US efforts to unilaterally trigger the reimposition of United Nations sanctions on Iran, but said they wanted talks with Tehran over its ongoing violations of a 2015 nuclear accord.

Thousands marched through US cities on Friday in Juneteenth observances marking the abolition of slavery more than a century and a half ago, an occasion freighted with special resonance this year amid America’s reckoning with its legacy of racism.

Syrian displaced children pose for photo at Atmeh camp, near the Turkish border, Syria, on Friday. On World Refugee Day, Reuters photographer Khalil

Beijing unveiled details of its new national security law for Hong Kong yesterday, paving the way for the most profound change to the city’s way of life since it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

President Donald Trump on Friday signaled he could try again to end the program that has protected so-called Dreamer immigrants who are in the

North Korea is gearing up to send propaganda leaflets over its southern border, denouncing North Korean defectors and South Korea, its state media

Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India and southern China will witness the most dramatic “ring of fire”

A drone carrying weapons in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district was shot down by the Indian Border Security Forces on Saturday.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg yesterday said the Black Lives Matter protests showed society had reached a “tipping point” at which injustices are finally addressed.

India and China on Saturday each traded accusations that the other had violated their shared de facto border, an area that this week became the site of the deadliest clash in half a century between the two nuclear-armed giants.

The World Health Organization warns of a "new and dangerous phase" of the coronavirus pandemic, as infections continued to surge in the Americas, with Brazil registering more than one million cases.

Chinese prosecutors says they have charged two detained Canadians for suspected espionage, indictments that could result in life imprisonment, in a case that has driven a diplomatic wedge between Ottawa and Beijing.

US President Donald Trump threatens unspecified action against any protesters at his weekend re-election rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in a warning that his campaign said was not directed at peaceful demonstrators.

The “Into the Wild” bus is no longer in the wild. Alaska officials on Thursday airlifted from a remote trail outside Denali National Park the wrecked bus

Four portraits of senior 19th century lawmakers who served in the Confederacy were removed from the US Capitol on Thursday in the latest

The United States is no longer mentioned in a draft resolution before the UN Human Rights Council condemning systemic racism and police brutality, a revised version of the text showed Friday.

People who catch COVID-19 but don’t show symptoms may have significantly lower levels of immunity against the virus than those who become severely ill, new research showed.

John Bolton, the former US national security advisor, is making explosive allegations about President Donald Trump in a new memoir, “The Room Where It Happened.” Here are some of the key claims in Bolton’s book, as reported ahead of its publication by The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal: