China is tied to a zero-Covid strategy, wielding snap lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines as part of unrelenting efforts to quash virus outbreaks no matter the cost to the economy or freedoms of its people. Among its arsenal of virus co...

Thousands of people packed Jerusalem's Old City on Friday for the burial of the veteran Al Jazeera journalist, two days after she was killed in an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank. Television footage showed the pallbearers struggling to ...

Europe on Friday pledged another half a billion dollars in military support for Ukraine as it resists the Russian invasion that began on February 24, while Sweden and Finland's moves towards joining NATO hit multiple obstacles. At the end of March,...

Or maybe a Greek with a death wish, a slinky Lithuanian chanteuse with a jet-black bowl cut or a Serbian germaphobe? The line-up for Saturday's grand finale of the Eurovision Song Contest is typically outlandish, but with the roars of war on the co...

Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's government is expected to include the menstrual leave as part of a draft bill on reproductive health that is set to be approved at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. "We will recognise in the law the right to lea...

A relative newcomer to the fast-growing electronic sports scene, Myanmar sees eSports as a way of connecting to the outside world, a top gaming official from the country told AFP at the SEA Games in the Vietnamese capital Hanoi. ESports are a popul...

"It makes me so angry that I would be amongst the first volunteers to go out there with a loaded gun, even though I'm not young enough to be a soldier anymore," he says. For many Finns living on the eastern border, the prospect of their country app...

The 44-year-old scored a solid victory in April 24 presidential polls against far-right leader Marine Le Pen, but still needs a majority in parliament to be able to push through his domestic reform agenda. The identity of Macron's new government ...

The spectre of assassination is haunting the electoral campaign in which the left has a real chance of taking power for the first time in a country that has a history of political careers ending in a hail of bullets. In the 20th century, five presi...

The 15-time major champion practiced last month at Southern Hills and excited fans hope he can improve on his 47th-place finish at Augusta National, where Woods called finishing 72 holes among his greatest career achievements. "Some of the players ...

Their supporters have denounced political persecution, but some experts believe former guerrilla leader Ortega is hoping to use the sentences as a bargaining tool to lift international sanctions. "Ortega is closing the cycle of false legality that ...

Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in the landmark 1973 case that enshrined a woman's right to the procedure, was propelled almost by chance into the debate -- before later becoming a fierce abortion opponent, in a reversal that shocked America. In 1969...

The planned nationwide demonstrations are a response to leaked draft opinion showing the United States Supreme Court's conservative majority is considering overturning Roe v. Wade, a landmark 1973 ruling guaranteeing abortion access nationwide. "Ou...

But her "weapon" isn't one of destruction: it just won the 33-year-old deaf athlete a gold medal at the Deaflympics in Brazil. Thousands of kilometers (miles) from the conflict at home, the Ukrainian team is raking in the medals at the Olympics for...

The year's second major tournament tees off Thursday at Southern Hills with Scheffler trying to become the first man to get halfway to a calendar-year Grand Slam since fellow Texan Jordan Spieth in 2015. "It's nice to be on a good run," said Scheff...