World

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that there will be bumpy months ahead after unemployment data showed that UK job losses hit a decadehigh.

Ahead of an upcoming release of Taliban detainees held in Afghan prisons, the insurgent group warned the government in Kabul on Tuesday against any attacks on those released, saying such incidents would jeopardize the peace talks.

A 35yearold woman and her three children, aged between four and 11, were killed in western Nepal when heavy rains brought down their mudandstone house early on Tuesday, police said.

Egypt on Tuesday reopened Gazas main passenger crossing point for the first time in months for thousands of Palestinians who have been stranded on both sides of the border due to the coronavirus crisis.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says that authorities have found four cases of the coronavirus in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the first cases of local transmission in the country in 102 days.

A U.K. lawmaker has asked the government to hold a virtual trial for the wife of an American diplomat who left Britain after being involved in a road accident that killed a British teenager.

At least two explosions have hit convoys supplying U.S.led coalition forces in Iraq in the last 24 hours, security sources said, the first on Monday evening near the southern border with Kuwait and the second on Tuesday north of Baghdad.

U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar attacked China's response to the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday and said that if such an outbreak had emerged in Taiwan or the United States it could have been "snuffed out easily".

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who has claimed victory over authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in Sunday's vote, had arrived in the neighbouring country and was safe

Chinas auto sales rose by 16.4% in July over a year earlier to 2.1 million units in a sign of sustained recovery for the industrys biggest global market, an industry group said Tuesday.

The presence of the chemicals was spotted and reported by an American port security expert during a safety inspection of the port. Current and former US officials who have worked in the Mideast say the contractor would have been expected to report the fin...

Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now:

The U.S. military said Tuesday it was investigating a militant claim by a newly formed Iraqi Shiite militant group of a bombing at the IraqKuwait border.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has interviewed the finalists in his running mate search and his campaign plans to announce a decision as soon as midweek, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing people briefed on the process.

Australia's secondmost populous state reported a small rise in new COVID19 infections on Tuesday, boosting hopes that case numbers are stabilising after a second wave forced authorities to send the city of Melbourne back into lockdown.

A judge on Monday ordered ridehailing giants Uber and Lyft to treat their California drivers as employees instead of independent contractors, a shift that would guarantee benefits like overtime, sick leave and expense reimbursement for workers who make up...