Some revelers were likely infected with the omicron covid variant, as New South Wales relaxes many restrictions and Australia plans to “live with the virus.”

The removal of Fatemeh Anvari put a face and a name to the 2019 law and spurred protests in Quebec and denunciations by officials across the country.

The story has displaced more than 300,000 people, according to the government's main disaster response agency.

Turnout was on pace to be the lowest in any poll since Hong Kong’s handover to China in 1997, a repudiation of Beijing’s crackdown on the pro-democracy movement.

The squeaks and squawks of 53 of Australia's most threatened birds were at one point more popular than Taylor Swift.

The Netherlands is imposing a snap lockdown. Meanwhile, Australia has loosened nearly all coronavirus measures.

Some revelers were likely infected with the omicron covid variant, as New South Wales relaxes many restrictions and Australia plans to “live with the virus.”

The removal of Fatemeh Anvari put a face and a name to the 2019 law — long a flashpoint for controversy in Quebec and beyond — and spurred protests in Quebec and denunciations officials across the country.

In villages hit by shelling from Russian-backed separatists and in front-line trenches, the political dueling between in Moscow and the West can seem far away.

The jingles from ice cream trucks flooded the streets of southeast London in memory of Hassan Dervish, a 62-year-old man hailed by loved ones as the “king of the ice cream.”

The recruits are answering the calls of influential clerics and Taliban commanders, according to interviews with half a dozen current and former Taliban members.

More than 300,000 people have been displaced due to the strong typhoon, according to the government's main disaster response agency.

Otherwise, «we’re just blah blah blah,» said Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba.

In one of the most tightly disputed contests since the Pinochet dictatorship ended in 1990, José Antonio Kast and Gabriel Boric have strikingly different views of the kind of country Chile should be.

The French government wants to build new reactors. The German government wants to shut them down.

In a country that tracks the spread of coronavirus variants as closely as any in the world, the signals have never been more concerning.

More than 300,000 people have been displaced due to the strong typhoon, the government's main disaster response agency.

“There is a saying that when rape is inevitable, lie down and enjoy it,” lawmaker K.R. Ramesh Kumar said.

Putin’s far-reaching security demands have been repeatedly ruled out by NATO officials.

“Boris Johnson, the party is over,” warned Helen Morgan, the newly elected lawmaker of the Liberal Democrats, in the latest setback for the prime minister.

Some of the first 160 asylum seekers enrolled in the program said they had no idea how or why they were selected.

Britain, France and Germany, along with Russia and China, are negotiating directly with Iran to revive the 2015 deal, from which the Trump administration withdrew in 2018.

Analysts are beginning to question whether Erdogan’s financial follies may cost him his job.

Changes to the electoral system have predetermined the outcome; voters may pick from a coterie of candidates largely aligned with Beijing.

The activist Rona Wilson was also the target of a malware attack in 2016, according to an earlier analysis.

Israeli officials oppose reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, which is the focus of negotiations in Vienna.

The fire started in a psychiatric care clinic on the building's fourth floor and police suspect a middle-aged patient may have been involved.

Omicron is drawing dramatic reactions from governments. It's too early to say if they are overreactions.

Nine children tumbled more than 30 feet to the ground below, according to police in Tasmania state.

Frustrations are mounting over local governments once again warning against traveling home for the Lunar New Year.

Kyiv has bunkers and a civilian defense forces ready, but many in the city are skeptical that current threats from Moscow are any more serious than those before.

The blast in the port city some 124 miles north of Port-au-Prince caused extensive damage and left poorly resourced first responders struggling to respond.

A family in South Africa discovered a boomslang — a very venomous snake — hiding inside their Christmas tree.

The decision boosted the rights of same-sex parents across the continent.

Diplomats are sending mixed signals about progress in talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal.