Thousands took to the streets across Brazil to protest against President Jair Bolsonaro's pandemic response as the country surpassed 500,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday.

Parades, picnics and lessons in history were part of Juneteenth celebrations on Saturday in the United States, a day that carried even more significance after Congress and President Joe Biden created ...

Canadians fully immunized with two shots of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine may now attend a highly anticipated Broadway production featuring Bruce Springsteen, but at least one Canadian hopin...

Canada has hit two of the vaccination targets government officials have previously said were necessary for the easing of public health restrictions imposed due to COVID-19.

Police say a driver in a pickup truck has plowed into bicyclists competing in a community road race in Arizona, critically injuring several riders.

A Hong Kong court ordered the top editor of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and the head of its parent company held without bail on Saturday in the first hearing since their arrest two days ago un...

Iran's hardline chief justice won a landslide victory on Saturday in the country's presidential election, a vote that both propelled the supreme leader's protégé into Tehran's highest civilian posit...

Number of deaths far below the more than 11,300 people in West Africa who lost their lives during an outbreak of the disease in 2014-2016.

Euro Cup players taking a knee in the name of racial injustice is dividing teams and their supporters, but no team has been more steadfast in this than England — despite the boos by some of their ow...

American politicians are fuming over the latest Canadian border restrictions. One member of Congress calls the latest extension "bullshit," illogical and immoral. Several are pressing U.S. President J...

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday called for a stop to the flow of arms to Myanmar and urged the military to respect November election results and release political detainees, including le...

U.S. Catholic bishops overwhelmingly approved the drafting of a "teaching document" that many of them hope will rebuke Catholic politicians, including President Joe Biden, who continue to receive Comm...

The United Nations General Assembly elected Antonio Guterres to a second term as secretary general on Friday, giving him another five years at the helm of the 193-member organization.

Canada is leading an international effort at the United Nations to demand that China allow "meaningful and unfettered access" to investigate "credible reports" of widespread human rights violations a...

U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law Thursday a bill to make Juneteenth, or June 19, the 12th federal holiday.

Maya Foa, director of the NGO Reprieve, says a young Saudi man's family is 'absolutely devastated' after he was executed for taking part in protests as a teenager.

A sense of dread is growing in some of the poorest countries in the world as COVID-19 cases surge and more contagious variants take hold amid a crippling shortage of vaccine.

An agency set up to oversee the voluminous files of communist East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, has wrapped up its work after nearly three decades.

St. Louis, Mo., couple Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who gained notoriety for pointing guns at social justice demonstrators walking past their home last year, pleaded guilty Thursday to misdemeanor cha...

Janet Malcolm, the inquisitive and boldly subjective author and reporter known for her challenging critiques of everything from murder cases and art to journalism itself, has died. She was 86. ...