A Houston police helicopter crashed, resulting in the hospitalization of two officers on board, the department said early Saturday.

Two Indian soldiers were killed and another wounded in Pakistani firing in Kashmir, the Indian military said Saturday, as tensions continue escalating along the volatile and highly militarized frontier between the archrivals in the disputed Himalayan region.

They are known as ?the invisibles': Undocumented African migrants who, even before the coronavirus outbreak plunged Italy into crisis, barely scraped by as day laborers, prostitutes, freelance hairdressers and seasonal farm hands.

The United States tweeted its support for Taiwan?s participation in the United Nations Friday, provoking a sharp response from China expressing ?strong indignation and firm opposition.?

A cousin who has been a bulwark of support for President Bashar Assad posted a video on Facebook late Thursday pleading with the Syrian leader to prevent the collapse of his major telecommunication company through what he called excessive and ?unjust? taxation.

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As body after body has passed through his rubber-gloved hands, sealed in double-layered bags for disposal, Paris undertaker Franck Vasseur has become increasingly concerned about the future after the coronavirus pandemic.

Air travel to Israel has come to a near standstill due to coronavirus restrictions, but one type of voyage still endures: the final journey of Jews wishing to be buried in Israel.

After an especially rainy winter, the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel is at its highest level in two decades, but the beaches and major Christian sites along its banks are empty.

Defiance came with biscuits and gravy as a remote California county became the first to buck Gov. Gavin Newsom?s stay-at-home order.