The night the rains came, all Yu Ruiping could do was huddle at her market stall

Japan is set to expand the coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo to neighboring areas and the western city of Osaka in the wake of record-breaking surge in infections while the capital hosts the Olympics

A small city on Colombia’s Caribbean shore is being crowded with migrants from Haiti and Africa making what they hope will be a journey toward the United States

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has called for stronger capability to cope with any foreign provocation as he presided over a meeting of military and political leaders

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has reversed his termination of a key defense pact with the United States that allows large-scale combat exercises between U.S. and Philippine forces

A group overseen by the British military says it has received a report of a ship being attacked off the coast of Oman in the Arabian Sea

Health authorities in Thailand are racing to set up a large field hospital at one of Bangkok’s airports as the country sees new highs in coronavirus infections and deaths

A problem with a newly docked Russian science lab briefly knocked the International Space Station out of position

Thousands of Guatemalans have taken to the streets in protest, blocking highways and calling for a national strike over the government’s apparent unwillingness to tackle corruption

Israel’s prime minister has announced that the country will offer a coronavirus booster to people over 60 who have already been vaccinated

An independent inquiry into the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has found that the Maltese state “has to bear responsibility” for the assassination because of the culture of impunity emanating from the highest levels of government

The Belarusian Association of Journalists has called on authorities in Belarus to transfer a jailed journalist to a civilian hospital so he could get treatment for coronavirus-induced pneumonia he has reportedly developed in detention

Mexico's president says he will issue a decree that could release hundreds or thousands of elderly inmates or those who have spent ten years or more in prison and have not been convicted of any violent offense

Brazilian authorities have begun the mass immunization of Rio de Janeiro’s Mare neighborhood in a novel bid to control COVID-19 in a poor community while studying vaccine effectiveness and the prevalence of worrisome variants

Portugal is beginning its journey to what the country’s prime minister calls “total freedom.”

International governments and companies have pledged more than $4 billion to educate 175 million children around the world and prevent a generation’s chances being blighted by the coronavirus pandemic

The U.S. official who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on genocide is visiting Ethiopia next week to press the government to lift what the U.S. calls a blockade on humanitarian aid to the conflict-hit Tigray region

Social workers in France worry that the growing use of virus passports will further marginalize migrants and other poor populations

A Spanish judge has thrown out a lawsuit against the leader of a movement seeking independence of Western Sahara from Morocco that accused him of torture, genocide and other crimes

A heat wave expected to be among the most severe in decades is baking southeast Europe