The daily update from the country's federal health ministry showed the number of fatalities reaching 500,055, up 1,072 in the previous 24 hours. Total infections stood at 41.9 million, according to the statistics, second only to the United States. ...

Special envoys from Turkey and Armenia will hold a second round of talks in Vienna later this month to normalise ties after decades of animosity. The day after direct flights re-started between Yerevan and İstanbul, FRANCE 24's Turkey corresponden...

Accompanied by new president Xiomara Castro, the devotees flocked to the Virgen de Suyapa basilica to mark an annual celebration of the wooden statuette of the mother of Christ. February 3 marks the date of the 1747 discovery of the 6.55 cm statue...

Xi has not left China since January 2020, when the country was grappling with its initial Covid-19 outbreak and locked down the central city of Wuhan where the virus was first detected. He is now embarking on a sudden flurry of diplomatic activity ...

The American scored a personal best to beat Japan's Shoma Uno into second place in the men's single short programme of the teams event. The score of 111.71 was just 0.11 points off the highest score ever for a short programme -- which is held by Un...

The International Olympic Committee declared on Thursday that China is now a "winter sport country". But has a vast country with no tradition of winter sports really created a nation of skiing, skating and snowboarding fans in less than a decade? ...

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa urged millions of Sri Lankans abroad to invest their savings in their home country, which is facing its worst debt crisis since independence from Britain 74 years ago. "Expatriate Sri Lankans who provide foreign exchang...

Former guerrilla Dora Maria Tellez and student leader Lesther Aleman were tried at El Chipote -- one of the country's most notorious prisons where dozens of activists detained in the run-up to last year's election are being held. The trial of the T...

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Feb. 7 and the leader of Ukraine on Feb. 8 to discuss the Ukraine situation, as Western world leaders try and avoid a major conflict with Russia over Ukraine.

The encounter at the world's biggest cricket stadium in Ahmedabad is the first of a three-match series but will be played behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic. India passed 500,000 deaths from the virus on Friday, although infection ...

A Winter Olympics overshadowed by rights concerns and taking place inside a strict Covid-secure bubble will officially begin in Beijing on Friday with an opening ceremony at the "Bird's Nest" stadium.

China has embarked on a crackdown in Hong Kong following massive and at times violent pro-democracy protests, imposing a sweeping national security law that criminalised much dissent. Wen Wei Po, a newspaper that answers to Beijing's Liaison Office...

Parrot said quitting snowboarding was "never an option" despite learning he had Hodgkin lymphoma just months after winning silver in slopestyle at the Pyeongchang Games. Instead, he used the prospect of competing in his third Olympics as "a huge mo...

A Winter Olympics overshadowed by rights concerns and taking place inside a strict Covid-secure bubble will officially begin in Beijing on Friday with an opening ceremony at the "Bird's Nest" stadium.

Kilde clocked 1min 43.72sec down the 3.2km-long "Rock" course in blustery conditions in Yanqing that saw the start delayed by one hour. "It's always good to have a second run, it makes it easier to navigate," Kilde of the man-made piste of artifici...