Authorities in the US state of California are preparing to disembark passengers aboard a virus-hit c..
Italy's coronavirus death toll has jumped by 97 to 463, as Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte descri..
Everyone arriving in Israel will be required to self-quarantine for 14 days to combat coronavirus, P..
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French Culture Minister Franck Riester h..
Italy's government has pledged to further increase spending in a "massive shock therapy" to off..
Twitter has used its new "manipulated media" tag for the first time on an edited video of a speech b..
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People take to the streets to mark InternationaRead More – S..
Around 60 foreigners who were quarantined for weeks in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, have fin..
Four men go on trial in the Netherlands on Monday, in the first criminal case over the murder of 298..
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Oil plunged over 20 percent Monday after top exporter Saudi Arabia l..
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The number of people to have died from the coronavirus..
Marches to raise awareness of discrimination against women are taking place in cities around the wor..
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France on Sunday banned all gatherings o..
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At least four people are dead and 29 missing after a h..
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In Mexico, an average of ten women are v..
A fire has ripped through a refugee shelter on the Greek island of Lesbos as tensions over a surge i..
Italy's prime minister has said at least 16 million people are in mandatory quarantine in Lomba..
About 70 people are trapped after a hotel collapsed in the Chinese city of Quanzhou, officials say.
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Iran has confirmed almost 6,000 coronavirus infections and 145 deaths as the number of cases worldwi..
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French health officials on Saturday repo..
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About 30 people remained trapped early o..
US President Donald Trump has replaced his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, whose departure had..
FAO, IFAD and WFP mark International Womens Day
6 March 2020, Rome – The three United Nations’ Rome-..
A US publishing house has cancelled plans to publish a memoir by Woody Allen, the award-winning film..
The death toll from the new coronavirus in Italy has risen to 197 after the largest daily increase i..
One of America's most famous music festivals, South by Southwest, has been cancelled due to cor..
Three senior members of Saudi Arabia's royal family, including the king's brother, have be..
A cruise ship carrying 3,500 people is waiting off the coast of California while tests for coronavir..
A 27-year-old Ukrainian chess champion and his girlfriend, 18, have been found dead in their Moscow ..
Doctors on Malta are threatening to take industrial action if a cruise ship is allowed to dock in sp..
The best friend of Sheikha Latifa had said a court judgement which ruled that the princess was abduc..
The head of the first budget travel agency to North Korea, Troy Collings, has died of a heart attack..
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Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of French cardinal..
Iraq's health ministry has announced its first two confirmed deaths related to the new coronavi..
Iran is limiting travel between its major cities as it tries to halt the spread of the coronavirus, ..
The White House has acknowledged the nation does not have enough coronavirus test kits as cases of t..
An investigation of alleged war crimes by the US and others in the Afghan conflict can go ahead, the..
Files discovered in Argentina reveal the names of 12,000 Nazis who lived there in the 1930s and many..
Abduction, forced return, torture and a campaign of intimidation. On Thursday the damning allegation..
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Senator Elizabeth Warren has ended her presidential ca..
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Turkey says it is deploying 1,000 police officers to i..
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California has declared a state of emergency after ann..
The International Monetary Fund has announced $50bn (£39bn) of support for countries hit by the coro..
The stampede at the Lanterna Azzurra (Blue Lantern) club was a tragedy that traumatised Italy in Dec..
Former UN chief and Peruvian Prime Minister Javier Pérez de Cuéllar has died aged 100.
Mr Pérez de..
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Judges at the International Criminal Cou..
Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg has rebuked the EU's plan for tackling climate change, tel..
Italy has confirmed that it will shut all schools from Thursday for 10 days as it battles to contain..
Scientists have published the first assessment quantifying the role of climate change in the recent ..
The US military has conducted an air strike against Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, just hours afte..
