CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Heavy rains lashed parts of the wildfire and drought-stricken Australian east coast on Friday, bringing some flooding in Sydney and relief to firefighters still dealing with dozens of blazes in New South Wales. New...
BEIJING (AP) — China’s top Communist Party investigators are looking into “relevant issues raised by the public” about a whistleblower doctor who was threatened by police after publicising his concerns about the new virus...
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese doctor who got in trouble with authorities in the communist country for sounding an early warning about the coronavirus outbreak died Friday after coming down with the illness, a hospital reported. The Wuhan Central...
BEIJING (AP) — China’s official media say the new virus has been confirmed in a baby just 36 hours after its birth. The baby born Sunday in Wuhan is China’s youngest case of the illness. Only a handful of children have come down...
This should have been a good year for global tourism, with trade tensions gradually easing, certain economies growing and banner events like the Summer Olympics taking place in Tokyo. But the viral outbreak in China has thrown the travel industry...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump triumphantly held up copies of two newspapers with banner “ACQUITTED!” headlines as he took the stage at the National Prayer Breakfast a day after avoiding becoming the first president ever...
(AP): Kirk Douglas, the intense, muscular actor with the dimpled chin who starred in Spartacus, Lust for Life , and dozens of other films, helped fatally weaken the blacklist against suspected Communists and reigned for decades as a Hollywood...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump won impeachment acquittal on Wednesday in the US Senate, bringing to a close only the third presidential trial in American history with votes that split the country, tested civic norms and fed the tumultuous...
WASHINGTON (AP): And then she tore up the speech. No sooner had President Donald Trump finished his State of the Union address than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped the paper it was printed on in two. Right there, on camera, behind Trump’s back....
FAIRFIELD (AP): Two jets carrying Americans fleeing the virus zone in China landed yesterday morning at an Air Force base in Northern California. Some will be quarantined at a hotel on the base for 14 days, while others will go under quarantine at...
ANKARA (AP): An avalanche slammed into a mountain road in eastern Turkey yesterday, wiping out a huge team of rescue workers sent to find people missing in an earlier avalanche. Officials said 33 emergency workers were killed, 53 were injured, and...
MOSCOW (AP): A senior Russian diplomat raised concern yesterday about the United States deploying a new submarine-launched nuclear weapon, saying the move signalled Washington’s belief that it could wage a limited nuclear conflict. The Pentagon’s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump won impeachment acquittal Wednesday in the US Senate, bringing to a close only the third presidential trial in American history with votes that split the country, tested civic norms and...
BEIJING (AP) — The director-general of the World Health Organization has asked for $675 million to help countries address the expected spread of the new virus that emerged in China. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged that the sum is a...
ISTANBUL (AP) — A plane skidded off the runway Wednesday as it tried to land in Istanbul, crashing into a field and breaking into pieces. Passengers had to evacuate through cracks in the smashed plane and authorities said at least 52 people...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is on the verge of acquittal by the Senate, bringing an end to only the third presidential impeachment trial in American history in a vote at the start of the tumultuous campaign for the...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government announced Wednesday it is considering a change in the way the BBC is funded that would severely dent the coffers of the nation’s public broadcaster. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s...
TOKYO (AP) — Large white sheets covering them head-to-knee, people infected with a new virus were led by gloved and masked officials Wednesday off a Japanese cruise ship, while the rest of the 3,700 people on board faced a two-week quarantine...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Air China is seeking to reduce flights to the United States and offer unusual legs between US cities because of a drop-off in travel and new restrictions on people entering the United States from China due to the coronavirus...
MASERU, Lesotho (AP) — The first lady of Lesotho is set to be charged with murder in connection with the 2017 killing of the prime minister’s former wife, police said Tuesday. Maesaiah Thabane, who fled the country on January 10 to...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A judge in South Africa issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for former president Jacob Zuma for failing to appear in court on a corruption case that he has sought to avoid for months — now by asserting that he is ill....
LONDON (AP) — Britain announced Tuesday that it plans to ban the sale of new gas and diesel cars by 2035 — five years earlier than its previous target — in a bid to speed up efforts to tackle climate change. The announcement was...
BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong hospitals cut services as thousands of medical workers went on strike for a second day Tuesday to demand the border with mainland China be shut completely, as a new virus caused its first death in the semi-autonomous...
BEIJING (AP): China opened a new hospital built in 10 days, infused cash into its tumbling financial markets, and further restricted people’s movement in sweeping new steps yesterday to contain a rapidly spreading virus and its escalating impact....
MADRID (AP): Passengers on an Air Canada Boeing 767 that made a safe emergency landing in Madrid yesterday evening have described how they spent hours flying in circles to burn fuel in a tense calm. Toronto-bound flight AC837, carrying 128...
