Health authorities in Kenya have started administering doses of the world’s first licensed malaria vaccine to young children in rural areas facing high transmission rates.
Indian authorities have announced a plan to restrict the movement of private cars in the capital for nearly two weeks after a major Hindu festival that features fireworks that cloak the area with toxic smog and dust.
South Africa’s president has canceled a visit to the United Nations’ annual gathering of world leaders to focus on unrest over gender-based violence and xenophobic attacks.
Danish police say two elderly German citizens have been found dead in a holiday rental cabin, adding they are routinely investigating the deaths as 'suspicious.'
Philippine immigration agents have arrested 277 Chinese in a raid against an online investment scam syndicate that defrauded hundreds of people, officials said Friday.
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has made a substantial donation for research into the treatment of multiple sclerosis at a center named after her late mother.
Spain’s King Felipe VI will meet with leaders of the country’s political parties to determine if there is a viable candidate who could receive the endorsement of parliament to form a government and avoid a second national election this year.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing a North Carolina Zaxby’s franchise after a worker says she was fired for reporting sexual harassment by the franchise’s general manager.
The speaker of France’s lower house of parliament says he is determined to continue with his job after he was charged with a conflict of interest for allegedly taking advantage of his past business position to help his girlfriend.
The British government insisted Thursday that its assessment there could be food and medicine shortages, gridlock at ports and riots in the streets if there is a no-deal Brexit is a worst-case scenario, not what is likely to happen.
The body of Zimbabwe’s longtime ruler Robert Mugabe is being flown to the capital, Harare, where it will be displayed at historic locations for several days before burial at a location still undecided because of friction between the ex-leader’s family and the government.
A South Florida woman who claimed to be a psychic fortune teller has been sentenced to three years and four months in prison for taking $1.6 million from a Texas woman to remove a curse from her family.
Two people accused of vandalizing a memorial to enslaved and free black workers who built UNC-Chapel Hill have been ordered to pay fine and perform community service.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend the U.K. Parliament less than two months before Britain is due to leave the European Union was unlawful, a Scottish court ruled Wednesday, although it didn’t order the suspension to be overturned.
The Hong Kong stock exchange says it has started talks to buy the London Stock Exchange that would value the British company at 29.6 billion pounds ($36.6 billion).
Norway’s highest court says it is 'beyond doubt' that child-like sex dolls represent the sexualization of children and are a violation of Norwegian law.
Greece’s navy says military and police officials are looking into the disappearance of 'military material' from a naval facility on the eastern Aegean island of Leros.
A group of leaders from business, politics and science have called for a massive investment in adapting to climate change over the next decade, arguing it would reap significant returns as countries avoid catastrophic losses and boost their economies.
Environmental group Greenpeace says several of its activists were detained by armed and masked Polish border guards who forced their way onto the group’s ship as it was trying to block a delivery of coal to the port in Gdansk.
An Iranian female soccer fan has died after setting herself on fire outside a court after learning she may have to serve a six-month sentence for trying to enter a soccer stadium.
German exports grew in July compared with the previous month, a performance that provided some relief for Europe’s biggest economy after poor industrial data.
Federal prosecutors have arrested a German Tunisian woman on charges of being a member of a terror organization and for joining the Islamic State group in Syria.
Pope Francis visited the Indian Ocean nation of Mauritius on Monday to celebrate its diversity, encourage a more ethical development and honor a 19th century French missionary who ministered to freed slaves.
The death abroad of a Palestinian who fled the Gaza Strip seeking a better life in Europe has highlighted the exodus of thousands of middle-class residents in recent years.
Hassan Ali Salem was just 16 when he survived a shipwreck in 2004, saved by another migrant who drowned when a packed wooden boat capsized in rough seas before it could reach Italy.
Turkish and U.S. troops conducted their first joint ground patrol in northeastern Syria Sunday as part of a planned so-called 'safe zone' that Ankara has been pressing for in the volatile region.
A senior minister who quit British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Cabinet says the government is making little or no effort to secure a Brexit agreement with the European Union, despite Johnson’s insistence that he wants a deal.
It took until early Sunday morning before California could run onto the field in celebration, party with the few Golden Bears fans still hanging around and enjoy another victory over Washington.
Rafael Nadal can win his 19th Grand Slam championship to move within one of Roger Federer’s record for men by winning the U.S. Open final against Daniil Medvedev.
Pope Francis is pressing for the poor to have the dignity of work with a visit Sunday to a hilltop rock quarry in Madagascar where hundreds of people toil rather than scavenge in the biggest dump of the Indian Ocean nation’s capital.
Days of official mourning have begun in Zimbabwe for Robert Mugabe, who had become a national hero despite decades of rule that left the country struggling.
India’s top security official says that the death of a 19-year-old man wounded with pellets fired by security forces in Kashmir was unfortunate, but demonstrates that the crackdown that has been in place in the restive Himayalan region for more than a month has largely been peaceful.
Yemeni medics say they have pulled at least 130 bodies from the rubble of a rebel-run detention center that was hit earlier this month by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in the country’s southwest.
The lawyer for one of two American teenagers being held in the slaying of an Italian police officer says he has dropped a request for his client to be released.
Pakistan is hosting the third round of trilateral talks with Afghanistan and China to cover trade, counterterrorism and ending Afghanistan’s 18-year war.
Wildfires have left a firefighter seriously injured and destroyed several homes in an early start to the fire danger season in southeast Australia, officials said Saturday.
It’s a scene many Muscovites have grown used to seeing this summer as a new wave of anti-government demonstrations gripped the Russian capital: Two masked, heavily clad riot policemen drag away a shrieking teenager as the protesters around them try to free her.
Iran’s foreign minister has defended his country’s plan to take further steps away from a 2015 nuclear deal if Europe fails to provide solution on reviving it.
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper cautioned European allies against cozying up to China, arguing on Friday that Beijing seeks greater global influence by leveraging economic power and stealing technology.
German industrial production declined for a second consecutive month in July in the latest sign that Europe’s biggest economy is headed for a recession in the current quarter.
Norway’s Telenor ASA says it and Malaysia’s Axiata Group Berhad 'have mutually agreed to end the discussions' to merge operations in Asia, a deal that could have created one of the world’s top telecommunications companies with 300 million customers in nine countries.
Bosnia’s embattled LGBT community will defy threats of violence to hold the Balkan country’s first ever pride parade this weekend and appeal for tolerance and unity in a society torn by war-era divisions and gripped by poverty.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to allow Syrian refugees to leave Turkey for Western countries unless a so-called 'safe zone' inside Syria is established soon.
Pope Francis praised Mozambique’s president and opposition leader Thursday for their courage in signing a landmark new peace accord, as he opened a visit to the southern African nation by calling for a future where reconciliation, hope and sustainable development become 'weapons of peace.'
Atlanta police say a man has been arrested in connection with the block party shooting outside the Atlanta University Center library that wounded four students.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says it is unacceptable for states with nuclear arms to tell Turkey that it cannot have missiles with nuclear warheads.
Authorities in Georgia are searching for a man accused of raping his estranged wife at knifepoint and then ramming her car with his own as she tried to escape.
French President Emmanuel Macron is holding a special government meeting to outline his domestic agenda for the coming year, including a controversial overhaul of the pension system.
Afghanistan’s government is expressing new concerns about a deal that a U.S. envoy says has been reached 'in principle' with the Taliban on ending America’s longest war.
When Scotland voted in 2014 against independence, that seemed to settle the issue: The hauntingly rugged region where Britain’s royal family spends its holidays at its vast Balmoral estate would remain with England, Wales and Northern Ireland in a United Kingdom governed from London.
The nominee to succeed Mario Draghi as head of the European Central Bank has defended the bank’s record low interest rates and extraordinary stimulus measures deployed in the wake of the Great Recession and eurozone debt crisis.
The U.N. human rights chief says her office has tallied more than 1,000 civilian deaths in Syria over the last four months, the majority of them due to airstrikes and ground attacks by President Bashar Assad’s forces and their allies.
Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei accused U.S. authorities on Wednesday of attempting to break into its information systems and of trying to coerce its employees to gather information on the company.
Police on Wednesday executed a search warrant on the home of an Australian intelligence officer in a raid that one media executive described as an attempt to intimidate people who talk to journalists.
Hong Kong’s government met Wednesday afternoon amid speculation that leader Carrie Lam will formally withdraw an extradition bill as protesters have demanded.
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