JOHANNESBURG — The coronavirus is now spreading locally within a dozen African nations, continental health authorities said Tuesday, while a cruise ship was quarantined off Cape...
JERUSALEM — The head of Israel’s shadowy Shin Bet internal security service said Tuesday that his agency received Cabinet approval overnight to start deploying its counter-terrorism...
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s president on Tuesday named a former governor of the city of Najaf as prime minister-designate, following weeks of political infighting and a looming...
BANGKOK — Bombers attacked a major government office in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued far south as hundreds of local officials and Muslim clerics met Tuesday to discuss fighting...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Appearing before the cameras coughing and sweating profusely, the man leading Iran’s response to the new coronavirus outbreak promised it was...
BERLIN — It’s 7 p.m. on a Friday night, a time when Aurel Johannes Marx’s three-room brothel on the edge of Berlin would normally be preparing...
WASHINGTON — He called on the country to come together. He warned of pain to come. And he deferred to the nation’s public health experts while...
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s prime minister said Monday he fears the new coronavirus will devastate the economies of developing nations, and warned richer economies to prepare to...
NEW YORK — Amazon said Monday that it needs to hire 100,000 people across the U.S. to keep up with a crush of orders as the...
TOKYO — The operator of a nuclear power plant in southern Japan was forced to shut down one of its reactors Monday because of a failure...