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The coronavirus and the restrictions that have coincided with the pandemic are pushing millions worldwide to the brink of starvation.

While coronavirus cases increase in Europe, Sweden continues a downward trend after a much-debated approach kept large parts of society open.

China has issued new guidelines targeting the Christian faith, filmmakers claim, banning content such as miracles and healing in movies.

A large fleet of some 260 Chinese fishing vessels has been spotted in the waters surrounding the Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador, according to the country’s navy.

A Syrian-born woman who charged employees at a tire shop in Canada, attempting to carry out an attack inspired by ISIS, was denied parole on Monday after prosecutors said she continues to threaten to commit another attack if she is released. 

For decades, the Chinese Communist Party depended on executed prisoners to bolster its organ transplant trade. Then it emerged that government leaders were relying on persecuted minorities to boost their bank.

China announced Tuesday that Hong Kong will suspend extradition treaties with Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom after the group of countries took similar measures in response to its controversial new security law. 

A fox with an affinity for fashion is believed to have stolen over 100 shoes in Berlin, Germany.

A British-Australian academic detained in Iran has been transferred to Qarchak prison, the country’s notorious desert jail, officials said Tuesday.

The U.S. ambassador to South Korea has shaved his mildly controversial mustache, saying it was too uncomfortable to keep while wearing a coronavirus mask during South Korea’s notoriously hot summer.

The man who sparked a recent coronavirus scare in North Korea after crossing its border reportedly fled the South because he was facing a sexual assault investigation, it has emerged. 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has defended the decision to effectively ban travel to Spain following a rise in coronavirus cases in part of that country, calling it the government’s “duty” to protect the U.K. as signs of a second wave of coronavirus begin to bubble up in Europe.

The U.S. military has acknowledged killing a civilian and wounding three others with an airstrike in Somalia earlier this year.

The devastating wildfire season in Australia that stretched from last July through March impacted far more animals than previously estimated, scientists said Tuesday in a new report.

TEHRAN, Iran  — Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard fired a missile from a helicopter targeting a replica aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, state television reported, an exercise aimed at threatening the U.S. amid tensions between Tehran and Washington.

The women were also fined nearly $19,000 each

Europe’s tourism revival is running into turbulence only weeks after countries reopened their borders.

Idil Baydar had gone to the police eight times over death threats she received, and each time they closed her case without doing anything. Now an explosive claim suggests police had links to the death threats she faced.

Chinese students in Australia have been coerced by phone scammers into staging their own kidnappings in order to extort millions from their families back home, Australian authorities said Monday.  

About 80,000 people, mostly local tourists, are being evacuated from the popular Vietnamese beach city of Da Nang after more than a dozen people there were confirmed to have COVID-19, the government said Monday.