Johnson had singled her out for praise. But critics say his government has failed to convey its appreciation with concrete support for the NHS.

One of two candidates running against longtime Syrian ruler Bashar Assad is casting himself as the first opposition representative to vie for the country’s top post

The famed Darwin’s Arch in the Galapagos Islands has lost its top, and officials are blaming natural erosion of the stone

A Lithuanian pop-rock band is set to get the Eurovision Song Contest party started with the fittingly titled song “Discoteque” and its opening lines: “Ok, I…

An Iranian official says that approving a variety of candidates for Iran’s presidential election could help boost turnout for a vote that authorities already worry may…

Naomi Campbell says she has become the mother of a a baby girl

Officials in Cambodia say eight villagers have died after drinking homemade rice wine that was probably adulterated

The United Arab Emirates says it will offer booster shots to those who received the Chinese state-backed Sinopharm vaccine six months after vaccination

Ceuta has long been a magnet for migrants from across Africa who hope to claim asylum in Europe, but the record number of arrivals comes at…

Fascination with Túpac Amaru persists in Peru, where past guerrilla groups and government leaders have appropriated his name

A top American diplomat has arrived in Libya’s capital, marking the first visit by a senior U.S. official since the U.N.-backed election of an interim government…

Hong Kong police say there is no evidence the director of its National Security Department, who was caught up in a raid on an unlicensed massage…

Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip ramped up Friday as the threat of all-out war loomed and hundreds of tanks and warplanes pounded the densely populated…

Tunisian authorities say more than 50 migrants have drowned off the coast of the North African country, while 33 others were rescued by workers from an…

Hamas militants fired rockets and mortars at cities in southern Israel on Tuesday as Palestinian demonstrators staged a general strike in solidarity with Gaza.

A leading international rights group is urging Egyptian authorities to release a woman who was arrested apparently over publishing a letter from her imprisoned son in…

Police say the wife of Belgium’s ambassador to South Korea has invoked her right to diplomatic immunity to avoid criminal charges over allegations she assaulted two…

Children are being subjected to extensive trauma in Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip

It could be as much as 50 percent more contagious than the highly transmissible B.1.1.7 strain.

German investigators say they have arrested a fifth suspect in connection with the spectacular theft of 18th-century jewels from a Dresden museum in 2019

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have fired more than 3,200 rockets at Israeli cities since the latest war erupted over a week ago

Residents rush to get vaccinated amid new outbreak, only to find there are nowhere near enough doses.

Spain is facing a humanitarian and diplomatic crisis after thousands of Moroccans took advantage of relaxed border controls in their nation to swim or paddle in…

Mexico is mounting a final push to get all of the country’s 3 million school teachers vaccinated so that it can reopen schools, perhaps by June

Pakistani police say they have foiled an attempt by a mob to lynch a blasphemy suspect recently arrested on charges of insulting Islam

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have summoned their Lebanese ambassadors The moves come in protest of televised remarks by Lebanon’s foreign minister, Charbel Wehbe,…

Pro-Palestinian protesters marched to the heavily guarded U.S. Embassy in Indonesia’s capital to demand an end to Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip

This is the first time the U.S. has agreed to share vaccines approved for domestic use.

India’s total virus cases since the pandemic began swept past 25 million as the country registered more than 260,000 new cases and a record 4,329 fatalities…

An Israeli airstrike early Sunday destroyed the home and office of Hamas’s political leader in Gaza, Yehiya Sinwar.

A State Department list of corrupt Central American officials underscores the Biden administration’s challenges of working with the region’s governments to deter migration.

Israel has carried out a wave of airstrikes on what it said were militant targets in the Gaza Strip, levelling a six-story building in downtown Gaza…

The Indian navy is working to rescue crew members from a sunken barge and a second cargo vessel that was adrift off the coast of Mumbai…

Dubai police are warning the inhabitants of a residential neighborhood of the skyscraper-studded city that a “wild cat” has gotten loose in the area

Israel and the Hamas militant group already face allegations of possible war crimes in Gaza, a week into their fourth war

Tokyo hospitals ‘have their hands full and have almost no spare capacity,’ said an association of about 6,000 doctors.

Hong Kong’s incoming Roman Catholic bishop Stephen Chow has called for plurality to be respected, in a time of polarization in the city’s Catholic community

The United Nations has warned that fuel, necessary for power generation, could be exhausted in days.

“We can’t calm ourselves, we just stare at each other in silence with love and fear.”

Mexico’s president has presented an apology for a 1911 massacre in which over 300 Chinese people were slaughtered by troops and residents in the northern city…

Panama has raised capacity on public transportation across the country, a day after celebrating the first day in 14 months without a COVID-19 death

A surfer has been killed by a shark off the Australian east coast

Former South African president Jacob Zuma says he is ready for his trial on charges of corruption, racketeering, and money laundering

JERUSALEM — Israel struck the Gaza Strip again Monday and Hamas rockets continued to streak in the other direction as the conflict hurtled into its second…

Chinese businessman with links to Steve Bannon is the “linchpin” of a sprawling disinformation network that pushes election and covid-19 falsehoods, researchers say

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is urging Libya’s new interim government to arrest the son of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi

Germany says it is close to an agreement with Namibia on the killings of tens of thousands of people when Germany was the southern African country’s…

South Africa has started its mass vaccination drive with the goal of inoculating nearly 5 million elderly citizens over the age of 60 by the end…

A committee of health experts formed by Tanzania’s new president has recommended an overhaul of the country’s approach to COVID-19, which until lately was to deny…

British vacationers have begun arriving in large numbers in southern Portugal for the first time in more than a year

Two Catalan separatist parties say they have reached an agreement to form a regional coalition government in northeastern Spain

Pubs and restaurants across much of the U.K. are opening for indoor service for the first time since early January even as the prime minister urged…