Montenegrin police said Thursday they have detained ?a number of citizens? following clashes at protests demanding the release of eight Serbian Orthodox Church priests jailed for leading a religious procession despite a ban on gatherings related to the new coronavirus outbreak.

The two cooling towers of a former nuclear power plant in southwestern Germany were demolished early Thursday in a pair of early-morning explosions whose timing was kept under wraps to prevent crowds from gathering during the coronavirus pandemic.

Burundi is kicking out the World Health Organization?s top official in the country just days before the presidential election and after the WHO raised concerns about crowded political rallies.

The World Health Organization?s director-general has faced many challenges during the coronavirus pandemic: racial slurs, death threats, social media caricatures ? he was once depicted as a ventriloquist?s dummy in the hands of Chinese President Xi Jinping ? and U.S. funding cuts.

In a special section of Istanbul?s Baklaci cemetery set aside for COVID-19 victims, a gaggle of workers well outnumbered the three mourners ? the maximum number of relatives allowed to attend the burial of Munever Kaya.

Halil Hasani is convinced his four sons are alive and imprisoned somewhere in Serbia more than two decades after police and paramilitary forces took them from a village in Kosovo.

Something he saw as he drove to work one morning gave Tristan Van den Bosch an uplifting idea.

By the time spring arrived in the Northern Hemisphere, the pandemic had the world firmly in its grip.

An Australian pedophile priest was sentenced to more jail time Thursday after admitting to crimes against another four boys in the 1970s.

Anyone who suffered through France’s two-month lockdown with a toothache or other oral affliction of a non-emergency nature has a hope of licking the pain.