Japan reels from rains and floods, with more coming
Torrential, record-breaking rainstorms have deluged southern and central Japan since Friday, killing at least 58 people and damaging over 4,000 properties.
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Why Chinese officials chose to crack down on Hong Kong now
Beijing saw an opportunity this year, with the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests taking up much of the attention of other countries. But China has wanted to exert more control for quite awhile.
The event served as a reminder that the president had hoped to cruise to reelection on a strong economy — a strategy dashed as tens of millions of Americans have been forced out of work since March.
Dozens of African migrant workers have been abandoned on the roadside by Lebanese employers.
They rove. They disinfect. They make drinks. They even bust a few dance moves.
Well beyond a billion students were sent home from schools as the novel coronavirus spread around the world.
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The two would-be populists have developed a conspicuous friendship in an age of crisis.
Williams accused the police of racial profiling, saying she and her family were targeted because they are black and were in a Mercedes-Benz.
China’s new security agency in the city will operate out of a four-star hotel that offers a vantage point over key protest zones — and a rooftop pool.
The government says it will not shutter the economy again despite calls by medical experts for caution.
Still reeling from the coronavirus, China’s heartland now faces deadly floods.
The withdrawal is effective July 6, 2021.
The government says weddings are the main culprit, but critics blame politics for the public health failure.
The populist president said he’s taking hydroxychloroquine to treat the infection. The U.S. ambassador to Brazil has tested negative for covid-19.
Officials are stepping up precautions, banning the hunting, skinning and transportation of rodents that can carry the deadly bacteria.
"A vaccine dose that remains in a vial is zero-percent effective."
The new measures threaten to derail the recovery of a country that had enjoyed relative success in conquering the virus.
Historical texts and discussions that might go against Beijing’s desired narrative are being erased as officials impose “patriotic education.”
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The newly oil-rich Caribbean nation is entering the fifth month of a tense standoff after a disputed election.
Hisham al-Hashimi was among the world’s top experts on the Islamic State and an adviser to the Iraqi government.
López Obrador makes his first foreign trip this week to Washington to celebrate the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal.
The move would mark a significant shift.
Efforts by the United Arab Emirates to fight the coronavirus have renewed questions about mass surveillance in this U.S.-allied federation of seven sheikhdoms
The United Nations secretary-general is warning that foreign interference in Libya’s war has reached “unprecedented levels.”
As Indonesia’s death toll from the coronavirus continues to rise, the world’s most populous Muslim country finds itself at odds with protocols put in place by the government to handle the bodies of victims of the pandemic
After months of touting an unproven anti-malaria drug as a treatment for the new coronavirus, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is turning himself into a test case live before millions of people as he swallows hydroxychloroquine pills on social media and encourages others to do the same
Flooding and mudslides have stranded hundreds of people in scenic hot springs and hiking areas in central Japan
