Tough travel restrictions aimed at keeping dangerous coronavirus variants out of Germany are to apply to the French department of Moselle from next week, in a move that angered France on Sun... Read more

Aya Ezz A group of militants affiliated to the Islamic State has overrun a military base in northeastern Nigeria. This came after Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari changed some senior army... Read more

The Taliban on Sunday called for the withdrawal of all international forces from Afghanistan within the timeline specified in the Doha agreement. The militant group issued a statement to mar... Read more

Looking beyond the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill, President Joe Biden and lawmakers are laying the groundwork for another top legislative priority — a long-sought boost to the nation’s roa... Read more

Security forces in Myanmar made mass arrests and used lethal force on Sunday as they intensified their efforts to break up protests a month after the military staged a coup. At least four pe... Read more

The Security Council, acting unanimously during a videoconference meeting today, adopted a technical rollover resolution reauthorizing deployment of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMI... Read more

A court in Turkey’s southeastern majority-Kurdish province of Diyarbakır is charging Kurdish man M.S.Ö. with terrorist propaganda over a social media post about former U.S. president Donald... Read more

Hong Kong police on Sunday detained 47 pro-democracy activists on charges of conspiracy to commit subversion under the city’s national security law, in the largest mass charge against the se... Read more

Three Turkish military cargo jets landed in the Government of National Accord (GNA) bases in Libya, shortly after the Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah announced that the maritime agr... Read more

The number of babies born in France in January fell by 13 percent, the biggest drop in 45 years, which statisticians have linked to the coronavirus pandemic. The 53,900 babies born in Januar... Read more

Somalia’s president, whose four-year term expired this month, should not take part in talks aimed at resolving a dispute that has caused a delay in choosing a new head of state, two of... Read more

South Korea’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency has allowed health workers to squeeze extra doses from vials of coronavirus vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Pfizer. The decision on... Read more

In a meeting late Thursday, Somalia’s prime minister persuaded opposition leaders to postpone mass anti-government protests and apologized for violence last week that targeted candidat... Read more

Six years after the murder of Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov, the foundation named after him has honoured imprisoned dissident Alexei Navalny for his civil courage. The 44-year-old... Read more

Police in Myanmar’s largest city Yangon fired shots and arrested participants Saturday at several locations where protesters had gathered for rallies against the junta, eyewitnesses sa... Read more