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North Korea threatens to shut liaison office with South Korea
North Korea continued to condemn its rival for failing to prevent activists from sending anti-North Korean leaflets across the border. Read more
North Korea continued to condemn its rival for failing to prevent activists from sending anti-North Korean leaflets across the border. Read more
It was not immediately clear how his identity was confirmed by the French. Read more
All but essential travel into Europe from the outside is restricted until June 15, but many ministers suggested that they want this deadline extended until early July. Read more
Since President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the deal in 2018, Iran has been slowly violating the restrictions. Read more
They have conducted only a fraction of the tests needed to find and isolate patients and let businesses operate almost as usual, even under a pandemic state of emergency. Read more
Mexican authorities sought to calm an anxious public after the nation’s coronavirus death toll grew by 1,092 on Wednesday. Read more
Michael White flew from Tehran to Zurich, where he was met by diplomat Brian Hook, the U.S. special envoy for Iran. Read more
Authorities cited the need for social distancing amid the coronavirus outbreak, despite the recent reopening of schools, beaches, bars and beauty parlors. Read more
British police said Wednesday that a German man has been identified as a suspect in the case of a 3-year-old British girl who disappeared 13 years ago while on holiday in Portugal. Read more
The top U.N. human rights official is urging some Asia-Pacific governments to be proportionate in their efforts to stop the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus outbreak. Read more
The storm had sustained winds of 60 mph and was expected to turn north later in the week, cross the Gulf of Mexico and eventually threaten the United States. Read more
The cyclone also threatened to worsen prospects for an economic turnaround as a 9-week-long government-imposed coronavirus lockdown began to ease this week. Read more
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that Canadians are watching what’s unfolding in the United States with “horror and consternation.” Read more
With U.S. cities burning and the coronavirus still raging, killing more people than in any other country, President Donald Trump also has growing problems overseas. He has never before been so isolated and ignored, even mocked. Read more
Three days after George Floyd died with a Minneapolis police officer choking off his air, another black man writhed on the tarmac of a street in Paris as a police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest. Read more
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday that the United Kingdom stands ready to open the door to almost 3 million Hong Kong citizens. Read more
The European Central Bank could soon expand its anti-pandemic stimulus program to more than a trillion euros, giving it more firepower to keep the virus crisis from sliding into a new financial crisis for the 19 countries that use the euro. Read more
Between the day the full genome was first decoded by a government lab on Jan. 2 and the day WHO declared a global emergency on Jan. 30, the outbreak spread by a factor of 100 to 200 times. Read more
Congo has yet to declare an official end to Ebola in its troubled east, where at least 2,243 people have died since an epidemic began there in August 2018. Read more
Russia had been a member of the group, then the G-8, until it was indefinitely suspended as punishment for its annexation of neighboring Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014. Read more
Nations around the world have watched in horror at the five days of civil unrest in the United States following the death of a black man being detained by police. But they have not been surprised. Read more