Riccardo Muti will conduct a youth orchestra in an open-air concert launching the annual Ravenna Festival next month in what organizers billed Friday as Italy?s first live classical music performance since its strict lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Three African countries have signaled their readiness to resume negotiations on a controversial dam that will be the continent’s largest. The move by Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan came after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Thursday his country is ready to return to talks.

One thing is clear in the complicated, sometimes contradictory and often chaotic story of Tara Reade: Her life has not been easy.

Iran’s supreme leader on Friday called Israel a ?cancerous tumor? that ?will undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed? in an annual speech in support of the Palestinians, renewing threats against Iran’s Mideast enemy.

A stellar 2019 for soccer in Finland was meant to hit a new peak in the 2020 season.

At 5:40 a.m. on an overcast morning, I was on my way to cover the opening of China?s biggest political gathering of the year when we ran into that rarest of sights in the age of coronavirus.

A head-on collision between a truck carrying passengers and another vehicle killed at least 43 people and left 32 others injured on a highway in Sudan?s Darfur region, police said Friday.

The Premier League trophy should have been in Tom Werner?s hands by now. This week should have featured a victory parade through the streets of Liverpool.

South Africa?s coronavirus lockdown has brought a unique kind of discomfort to a country where memories of physical separation are yet to fade. Stand there. Step back. Don?t touch.

On just one day this month, 50 Tanzanian truck drivers tested positive for the coronavirus after crossing into neighboring Kenya. Back home, their president insists that Tanzania has defeated the disease through prayer.