French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Rwanda on Thursday for a highly symbolic visit aimed at turning the page on a quarter century of diplomatic tensions over France’s role in the country’s...

President Joe Biden ordered U.S. intelligence officials to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including any possibility the trail might lead to a Chinese...

Eight people were killed in a mass shooting during a union meeting at a train yard in San Jose, California, on Wednesday. Santa Clara County sheriff Laurie Smith said officers ran into the building as...

Mali’s interim president and prime minister resigned as part of mediation efforts Wednesday after being arrested in an apparent second military coup in nine months, a top junta aide said. President...

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged on a Middle East mission on Tuesday that Washington would rally support to rebuild Gaza as part of efforts to bolster a ceasefire between its Hamas Islamist...

US biotech firm Moderna said Tuesday that trials had shown its Covid-19 vaccine is “highly effective” in adolescents aged 12-17 and the company would seek regulators’ approval in June. “We are...

Malian soldiers unhappy with the new government announced by the transitional authorities took the president and prime minister by force on Monday to the Kati military camp, a few kilometres from Bamako,...

Myanmar’s junta-appointed election commission will dissolve Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy Party (NLD) because of what it said was fraud in a November election, news outlet...

Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire Thursday, halting a bruising 11-day war that caused widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip, brought life in much of Israel to a standstill and left more than 200...

United States President Joe Biden signed anti-hate crime legislation on Thursday directing federal law enforcement to address a rise in violent attacks against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during...

Microsoft said it is retiring Internet Explorer, the browser it created more than 25 years ago. “We are announcing that the future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge,”...

Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta has appointed Court of Appeal Judge, Martha Koome as the East African country’s first woman Chief Justice and head of the judiciary. The announcement was made Wednesday...

British inflation has soared to the highest level since the early stages of the pandemic, official data showed Wednesday, stoking fears of a global inflationary spike as economies reopen. The Consumer...

India recorded its highest single-day toll of 4,529 Covid deaths. The country recorded 2,67,334 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, taking the total case tally in the country to 2,54,96,330,...

The Israeli military launched another series of air raids on the Gaza Strip early on Monday. Explosions rocked Gaza City from north to south in a bombardment that was heavier, wider and lasted longer than...

Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba has said that he had spoken in London with Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland and expressed Gabon’s willingness to join the bloc. “A very...

With 4,205 deaths on Tuesday, India saw the highest Covid toll so far, surpassing the previous highest of 4,187 on Friday. Over 50,000 deaths have been recorded over the past fortnight, taking the total...

Israeli airstrikes have now killed 53 people including 14 children in Gaza. Fourteen of those killed were minors, the Health Ministry says. Another 320 Gaza Palestinians have been wounded. Meanwhile,...

China’s weak population growth is falling closer to zero as fewer couples have children, government data showed Tuesday, adding to strains on an aging society with a shrinking workforce. National Bureau...

At least 26 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian health ministry, after Hamas launched rockets from the coastal territory towards...