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State Department by Michael Gross/ Public Domain(WASHINGTON) — After nearly 22 months in office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will make his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa on Saturday, in a bid to reassert the […]

jarun011/iStock(SAN ANTONIO) — A 15th patient has been diagnosed with novel coronavirus in the United States, health officials reported Thursday. The patient was among the Americans repatriated from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the new […]

Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images(LONDON) — After a reported speaking engagement in Miami last week, rumors have swirled about what speaking opportunities and jobs Prince Harry may take on in his future role as a non-working member […]

Stuart_Shaw/iStock(NEW SOUTH WALES, Australia) — All bushfires in New South Wales, Australia are contained for the first time since this fire season began in September 2019, the state’s fire agency reported Thursday. Rob Rogers, the […]

jarun011/iStock(LONDON) — The Chinese province at the heart of the novel coronavirus outbreak reported a nearly tenfold increase in cases and deaths on Thursday morning, after applying new methodology as to how cases are categorized. […]

mrtom-UK/iStock(BARCELONA, Spain) — The coronavirus, declared a global health emergency, has led to the cancellation of one of the most-attended yearly global tech conferences, Mobile World Congress. ‘With due regard to the safe and healthy […]

Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Top health officials prepped Americans for the prospect of novel coronavirus spreading in communities in the United States during a Wednesday news conference. “At some point, we we are […]

KeithBinns/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. and Taliban are close to finalizing an agreement to reduce violence in Afghanistan, which would open the door to a historic deal on the U.S. military presence there, according to U.S. […]

omersukrugoksu/iStock(NEW YORK) — American Coalition forces on patrol in Syria exchanged small arms fire with unknown individuals near a pro-regime checkpoint while on patrol in north eastern Syria, with the situation now de-escalated, a military […]

Kassem Family(NEW YORK) — The family of an American citizen who died in an Egyptian prison said they are disappointed that they haven’t heard from President Donald Trump or other senior officials in his administration, […]

Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images(LONDON) — Dozens more people aboard a cruise ship quarantined at sea in Japan have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, officials said. By Wednesday, at least 174 people among the 3,711 guests […]

mrtom-UK/iStock(BARCELONA, Spain) — The coronavirus, declared a global health emergency, is posing a threat to one of the most-attended yearly global tech conferences, Mobile World Congress. MWC, held each year in Barcelona, Spain, drew 109,674 […]

jarun011/iStock(GENEVA) — Top health officials have finally named the novel coronavirus that has sickened tens of thousands of people around the world. The coronavirus is now called COVID-19, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general at the […]

Pgiam/iStock(LONDON) — Global carbon dioxide emissions stopped growing last year, despite the global economy experiencing a marked increase in size, according to data published today. Following two years of increasing emissions, CO2 emissions flattened to […]

jarun011/iStock(HONG KONG) — A hundred people have been quarantined in Hong Kong after being evacuated from an apartment building where two residents living on different floors were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, authorities said. During […]

Carl Court/Getty Images(LONDON) —  A 13th American was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus on Monday as the death toll in China topped 1,000 with health officials struggling to contain the epidemic. The American tested positive […]

iStock/omersukrugoksu(DUBLIN) — The left-wing nationalist party Sinn Féin surged to a historic result in the Irish general election over the weekend, upending the country’s two-party system as the wave of anti-establishment populism that has shaken […]

Filkina Natalia/iStock(LONDON) — Four endangered mountain gorillas have been killed by an apparent lightning strike in one of Uganda’s national parks, conservation groups say. Three adult females, one of whom was pregnant, and a newborn […]

Carl Court/Getty Images(LONDON) — U.S. citizen Rebecca Frasure has been in the isolation ward of a Tokyo hospital since Friday. Frasure and her husband were supposed to be enjoying themselves on a cruise around Asia, […]

iStock/Andreas Haas(LONDON) — A New York-to-London flight landed in the history books Sunday as the fastest subsonic flight across the Atlantic Ocean. British Airways Flight 112 made the trip in 4 hours and 56 minutes […]