French health minister to run for Paris mayor to end scandal
PARIS — France's Health Minister Agnes Buzyn was named on Sunday as a new candidate for mayor of Paris, a late entry by the country's governing party ...
US secretary of state visits Senegal to start Africa tour
DAKAR, Senegal — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Trump administration is working to determine what level of American military forces is n...
Wales bears the brunt as Storm Dennis hammers Britain
LONDON — Storm Dennis hammered Britain Sunday, bringing a month's worth of rain in just 48 hours to parts of South Wales, which bore the brunt of the ...
Quarantine ends for Germans; Italy to fly citizens from ship
BERLIN — More than 100 Germans evacuated from the hard-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of a new coronavirus outbreak, were set to end their p...
Xi’s early involvement in virus outbreak raises questions
BEIJING — A recent speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping that has been published by state media indicates for the first time that he was leading the ...
Denouncing US, Venezuelan troops, militias stage drills
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela's armed forces and civilian militias took the streets in cities, beaches and border regions on Saturday for drills orde...
UK faces another fierce storm; 2 found dead in rough seas
LONDON — Rescuers pulled two male bodies from rough seas off the coast of southeast England and military personnel mobilized to help build flood barri...
France announces 1st death of virus patient outside Asia
PARIS — France on Saturday reported the first death outside Asia of a person infected with the new virus from China, an 80-year-old Chinese tourist wh...
New virus cases fall; WHO says China bought the world time
BEIJING — China reported 143 virus deaths and a dip in new cases Saturday while the head of the World Health Organization praised the country's effort...
Questions complicate efforts to contain new virus from China
WASHINGTON — Reports one day suggest the respiratory outbreak in China might be slowing, the next brings word of thousands more cases. Even the expert...
France’s Macron urges better long-term relations with Russia
MUNICH — Europe needs to strive for better relations with Russia in the long term, French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday, adding that while h...
US defense chief slams China as rising threat to world order
MUNICH, Germany — U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Saturday cast China as a rising threat to world order — saying the world's most populous nation...
1 dead, 4 injured in shooting outside Berlin music venue
BERLIN — One person has been killed and 4 others were injured in a shooting late Friday outside a Berlin event venue, German authorities said Saturday...
Freezing weather compounds crisis for displaced in Syria
BEIRUT — A military offensive on an opposition-controlled region of northwestern Syria has created one of the worst catastrophes for civilians in the ...
No handshakes: Viral outbreak spooks Asian places of worship
MANILA, Philippines — In a popular Catholic church in the Philippines, nearly half of the pews were empty for Sunday Mass. The few hundred worshippers...
US and Taliban agree to truce, way forward in Afghanistan
MUNICH — The United States and the Taliban have agreed to a temporary truce that, if successful, would open the way for a deal that would bring Americ...
Haiti officials say 15 children died in residence fire
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A fire swept through a Haitian children's home run by a Pennsylvania-based religious nonprofit group, killing 15 children, off...
US travel ban for Sri Lanka army chief in hospital shelling
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The U.S. government on Friday issued a travel ban Sri Lanka's army chief, saying there is “credible information of his involvemen...
Iran: US killing of general was a miscalculation
MUNICH — The U.S. killing of a top Iranian general was a miscalculation that has had the effect of bolstering support in Iraq for the removal of Ameri...
With virus, shops in China suffer a star-crossed Valentines
BEIJING — In virus-stricken China, couples can celebrate Valentine's Day with a roast beef salad, hot chocolate, a rose and a note, all delivered to t...
Zuckerberg accepts that Facebook may have to pay more tax
LONDON — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to throw his support behind international reforms that would require Silicon Valley tech giants to pay mor...
AP Explains: Why Syria’s M5 is Assad’s highway to victory
BEIRUT — It is arguably one of the most coveted prizes in Syria’s civil war, and after eight years of fighting, Syrian President Bashar Assad has got ...
With Britain out, the unwieldy EU faces major budget battle
BRUSSELS — The Brexit drama shook the foundations of the European Union for years and laid bare the need for much-delayed political renovations at the...
India keeps lid on Kashmir’s internet 6 months into lockdown
NEW DELHI — Six months after India's government stripped restive Kashmir of its semi-autonomy and enforced a total communications blackout, it is hera...
Health concerns meet politics amid Taiwan’s WHO exclusion
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan’s exclusion from the World Health Organization is pitting health concerns against geopolitics during the current crisis over t...
Virus renews safety concerns about slaughtering wild animals
BEIJING — China cracked down on the sale of exotic species after an outbreak of a new virus in 2002 was linked to markets selling live animals. The ge...
Determined: Ethiopian female migrants risk all for Saudi
They are among the most vulnerable of the tens of thousands of migrants making the long and perilous trek from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia in search of j...
RK Pachauri, who led Nobel-winning climate panel, dies at 79
NEW DELHI — Indian environmentalist Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, under whose leadership a U.N. climate change panel shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, has...
Cruise stranded by virus fears ends with roses in Cambodia
SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia — Hundreds of cruise ship passengers long stranded at sea by virus fears cheered as they finally disembarked Friday and were w...