UN expert fears violence with troops sent to Myanmar city
The U.N. expert on human rights in Myanmar has warned of the prospect for major violence as demonstrators gather again Wednesday to protest the military’s seizure of power
The U.N. expert on human rights in Myanmar has warned of the prospect for major violence as demonstrators gather again Wednesday to protest the military’s seizure of power
Mexico has topped 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases and 175,000 deaths related to COVID-19, though officials conceded that the country's extremely low rate of testing means the real figures are much higher
The leaders of New Zealand and Australia are engaged in a bitter fight over which country will inherit an alleged Islamic State militant who at one point held citizenship in both nations
The first death in ICE custody was in California in May
Another winter storm will follow on the heels of the Storm Uri beginning Wednesday
‘Our social care workers were underpaid and undervalued even before this crisis struck’
Hundreds of thousands of US visa applicants and beneficiaries around the world are stuck in limbo as Biden weighs whether to rescind Trump rules keeping them out, writes Chantal Da Silva
Newspaper publisher Tribune has agreed to be sold to Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known for cutting costs and eliminating newsroom jobs, in a deal valued at $630 million
UK leisure and tourism will be ‘broadly’ back to normal by July, according to newspaper
Former President Donald Trump has issued a blistering statement denouncing the top Republican in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, as a “political hack” who will make sure the party “will not win again."
Australia’s second-largest city, Melbourne, will relax its third lockdown after authorities contained the spread of a COVID-19 cluster centered on hotel quarantine
New president has known Israeli PM for decades and insists their personal relationship is close
Claude Schmidt admitted more tests ‘should have been carried out’ but said cladding panels were ‘flammable but not necessarily dangerous’
In 2011 Jim Moore was knocked off his bicycle by a cement lorry and trapped beneath its wheels. A decade on, the memories of that horrible day are astonishingly real
Japan’s COVID-19 vaccinations are beginning after the government gave belated first approval to a shot co-developed by Pfizer Inc. that the United States and many other countries started using two months ago
Japan’s first coronavirus shots were given to health workers, beginning the vaccination campaign considered crucial to holding the already delayed Tokyo Olympics
Proposed law would make it possible for government to create buy-back programme for around 1,500 assault weapon models
A fifth of under-35s say online platforms are their most important tool
Local leader blames ‘socialist’ government and people’s upbringing for their condition
‘It’s hard to know where to begin. It’s 280 characters and a whole lot of errors’
’Case numbers are still far too high,’ hospital leaders say as ministers mull easing restrictions
Conservation charity says pests and moulds thrived during last year’s lockdown, writes Conrad Duncan
As Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona face war crime charges, it’s important we realise that this isn’t just another case to be forgotten about, writes David Harding
Team had disagreements over strategy, who would speak when, and one reportedly threatened to quit