Myanmar security forces opened fire today on a crowd attending the funeral of a student who was killed on the bloodiest day yet of a crackdown on protests against last month's coup, local media reported. The escalating violence —...
As Myanmar’s military celebrated the annual Armed Forces Day holiday with a parade Saturday in the country's capital, soldiers and police elsewhere reportedly killed dozens of people, as they suppressed protests in the deadliest...
Somehow, they didn’t see it coming. Within weeks of Inauguration Day on January 20, the Biden administration had reversed many of the most maligned Trump-era immigration policies, including deporting children seeking asylum who...
'Marvelous' Marvin Hagler stopped Thomas Hearns in a fight that lasted less than eight minutes, yet was so epic that it still lives in boxing lore. Two years later he was so disgusted after losing a decision to 'Sugar Ray' Leonard...
At least 18 people have been killed, the UN Human Rights Office is reporting, as security forces in Myanmar today made mass arrests and used lethal force, intensifying their efforts to break up protests, a month after the...
The US is getting a third vaccine to prevent COVID-19, as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today cleared a Johnson & Johnson (J&J) shot that works with just one dose instead of two. Health experts are anxiously awaiting a one-and...
Barbed wire and concrete barriers surround the courthouse where the former Minneapolis police officer charged with killing George Floyd will soon go on trial. It's a sign of the deep uneasiness hanging over a city literally set ablaze almost a...
The interior minister of Libya’s UN-backed government survived an ambush by gunmen on his motorcade on today. The brazen attack highlight the towering challenges that remain for the newly appointed government that is trying to unite...
Maybe, just maybe, the thinking went, Novak Djokovic would be just a tad more susceptible to trouble this time around at the Australian Open. After all, he tore an abdominal muscle in the third round and wasn’t sure he could continue to...
Two anti-coup protesters were shot dead by riot police today in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second-largest city, local media reported. One of the victims was shot in the head and died at the scene, according to Frontier Myanmar, a news and...
A Moscow court today rejected Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s appeal of his prison sentence. The rejection came even as the country faced an order from a top European rights court to free the Kremlin’s most prominent foe. A...
More than 5,000 people have been detained by police in Russia, according to a monitoring group, and some beaten, as tens of thousands protested today against President Vladimir Putin over the jailing of opposition leader, Alexei Navalny....
Former US President Donald Trump, has parted ways with his lead impeachment lawyers. This comes just a little more than a week before his Senate trial is set to begin, two people familiar with the situation said today. Butch Bowers and...
The teacher who created the recycled wool mittens that US Senator Bernie Sanders wore to the presidential inauguration — engendering countless memes — is partnering with the Vermont Teddy Bear Company to create a whole mitten...
Two men identified as members of the Proud Boys have been indicted on federal conspiracy and other charges in relation to the Capitol riot. The indictment comes as prosecutors raise the stakes in some of the slew of cases stemming from the...
Five people, including a pregnant woman, were shot to death early today inside an Indianapolis home in the United States. It appears the attack was targeted, the city’s police chief said, decrying the “mass murder” killings...
At least two people were injured when a police officer responding to a report of a street race drove his car through a crowd of pedestrians that had gathered around him and were pounding on the car's windows in downtown Tacoma in Washington...
Eleven workers trapped for two weeks inside a Chinese gold mine were brought safely to the surface today- a landmark achievement for an industry long-blighted by disasters and high death tolls. China's state broadcaster, CCTV...
President Joe Biden's first calls to foreign leaders went to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador at a strained moment for the US relationship with its North American...
Protests erupted in cities across Russia today to demand the release of Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin's most prominent foe. Police have arrested more than 1,600 people, some of whom took to the streets in...
Larry King, the suspenders-sporting broadcaster whose interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary 'Joes' helped define American conversation for a half-century, died Saturday. He was 87. King died at Cedars-Sinai...
Africa surpassed the milestone of 3 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, including more than 72,000 deaths, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. South Africa accounts for more than 30 per cent of...
In a highly unusual move, American diplomats have drafted two cables condemning President Donald Trump’s incitement of the deadly assault on the Capitol and calling for administration officials to support invoking the 25th Amendment to remove...
Two Republican senators now say President Donald Trump should resign, as support for the drive to impeach him a second time gains momentum in his final days in office. This comes after Wednesday's deadly riot at the Capitol by a...
Authorities today said they determined the location of the crash site and black boxes of a Boeing 737-500, a day after the aircraft crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board shortly after taking off from Indonesia's capital. The...