French authorities deployed about 1,000 firefighters, four military helicopters and troops Sunday to help search for at least eight people still missing in a mountainous southeastern region after devastating floods. Storm Alex killed at least two people in neighboring Italy.
Authorities in northwest Mexico are searching for gunmen who ambushed a convoy carrying security forces, killing six police officers. At least two other people died.
The fallout from the coronavirus – officially termed COVID-19 – pandemic has come with a dizzying array of direct and indirect repercussions. More than 34 million people have been infected, over 1.2 million lives have been lost, economies have crumbled, children's education has primarily halted, unemployment has debauched all parcels and planet.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un offered his sympathies and well wishes on Friday to the president and first lady each tested positive for the coronavirus.
A new migrant caravan of around 2,000 Hondurans is now passing though Guatemala in hopes of reaching the U.S.-Mexico border, despite the risks posed by the coronavirus pandemic and threats from the country’s president to “detain all those who entered illegally.”
The love child of former Belgian King Albert II on Thursday won a seven-year-long battle over her royal rights — and can now officially call herself a princess.
President Trump has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, and in doing so, he joins a growing list of world leaders who have previously contracted the virus.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will likely have to spend another three months in a British prison cell before finding out whether he can be sent to the U.S. to face espionage charges, the judge in his extradition trial said Thursday.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is recovering in Germany after being poisoned in Russia by a nerve agent, accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being behind the attack in comments released Thursday.
For almost 10 years, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has presided over a country that has been brought bitterly to its knees. More than half a million people have died, half the 17 million population has been displaced, the number of those rendered disabled, disappeared and dispossessed is countless and the economy has been crushed to almost nonexistence.
The European Union announced Thursday that it is launching legal action against Britain over their plans to pass trade legislation that would constitute a “breach of the obligation of good faith laid down in the Withdrawal Agreement” hashed out between the two sides last year.
The Vatican announced Wednesday that they had denied U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s request to meet with Pope Francis during his visit to Rome this week.
Islamic State-affiliated terrorists have reportedly formed a base hub of operations in Northern Mozambique, killing more than 1,500 people, and displacing more than 250,000, according to the European Union.
After a lull in the busy 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, forecasters on Wednesday are monitoring an area of disturbed weather over the Caribbean that may become the next named storm.
