Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro shocked even his staunchest supporters this week with an expletive-filled tirade against the COVID-19 vaccine, despite 7.1 million cases of the virus in the country and over 185,000 deaths.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was vaccinated against the coronavirus on live television Saturday, becoming the first Israeli and one of the world's leaders to be inoculated.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo mocked France's Public Service Ministry last week after being fined for promoting too many women to senior positions in the city’s government.
News about the coronavirus-related death of a Chinese doctor who had warned the public about the virus set off a massive propaganda and censorship effort to help the Chinese government regain control of the narrative inside the country about the rapidly growing crisis, according to a report.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday imposed a new round of restrictions for London and much of southern England after officials said they have identified a new COVID-19 strain that can spread more quickly and is believed to be linked to a rise in infections across those areas.
A Georgia college student jailed for four months in the Cayman Islands for neglecting to follow novel coronavirus-related quarantine guidelines faces stringent consequences because local officials "needed to make a statement," her grandmother told Fox News on Friday.
Amid revelations about massive hacking of government and private sector systems since March and Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) probably behind it, Putin's words seemed to turn reality on its head.
The annual tradition endures, 71 years later, with 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th ID coming together Dec. 4 at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, to donate and wrap gifts to send to the Holy Family Home in Japan.
Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo amid tensions with the U.S. over its atomic program, satellite photos obtained Friday by The Associated Press show.
The British government on Thursday criticized the U.N.’s children’s fund (UNICEF) for what it described as a “political stunt of the lowest order" after the organization pledged money to fund food boxes in the U.K.
An 18-year-old student from Georgia and her watersports-athlete boyfriend were sentenced to four months by a Cayman Island court after she slipped out of her wristband monitor to watch him compete at a local race instead of quarantining after arriving from the U.S., according to local reports.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday rejected allegations that the Kremlin was behind the poisoning of his top political foe, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and accused U.S. intelligence agencies of fomenting the claims.
The top U.S. general held unannounced talks with Taliban peace negotiators in the Persian Gulf to urge a reduction in violence across Afghanistan, even as senior American officials in Kabul warned that stepped-up Taliban attacks endanger the militant group's nascent peace negotiations with the Afghan government.