TOKYO—New U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, during his first phone call with his Japanese counterpart, reaffirmed America's commitment ...

HONG KONG—The Hong Kong government lifted a lockdown in an area of Kowloon district in the early hours ...

LONDON—Economic activity in the eurozone shrank markedly in January as stringent lockdowns to contain the coronavirus pandemic hit ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate Finance Committee on Jan. 22 unanimously approved Janet Yellen’s nomination as the first woman Treasury ...

President Joe Biden’s administration has temporarily suspended oil and gas permitting on federal lands and waters in the ...

WASHINGTON—The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits decreased modestly last week as the COVID-19 pandemic ...

TAIPEI—Chinese air force planes including 12 fighter jets entered Taiwan's air defense identification zone for a second day ...

WASHINGTON—U.S. manufacturing activity surged to its highest level in nearly 14 years in early January, but bottlenecks in ...

LONDON—Britain has detected 77 cases of the South African variant of COVID-19, the health minister said on Sunday, ...

LONDON—The Scottish National Party (SNP) published a "Roadmap to Referendum" on Saturday, laying out plans for another vote ...

LONDON—Four men were given long jail sentences on Friday for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese men, women and ...

MOSCOW—Police detained more than 3,000 people and used force to break up rallies across Russia on Saturday as ...

JOHANNESBURG—The coastal city of Beira in Mozambique, which houses one of the country's most important ports, has seen ...

TAIPEI—Eight Chinese bomber planes and four fighter jets entered the southwestern corner of Taiwan's air defense identification zone ...

MOSCOW—Police detained over 2,000 people and used force to break up rallies across Russia on Saturday as tens ...

ROME—The Italian data privacy watchdog ordered video app TikTok on Friday to block the accounts of any users ...

BRUSSELS—The European Parliament called on EU governments to recognize Juan Guaido as Venezuela's interim president in a resolution ...

PARIS—The French government is now recommending that people wear surgical masks in public because they offer better protection ...

BRASILIA—Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva disclosed on Thursday that he tested positive for the coronavirus ...

Britain is banning all arrivals from Tanzania and Democratic Republic of Congo from Friday to stop the spread ...

TOKYO—There is "no Plan B" for the Tokyo Games, said International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, who reaffirmed ...

KYIV—At least 15 people were killed and 11 injured in a fire in a nursing home in the ...

LONDON—The United Kingdom is resisting an EU demand that it grant full diplomatic status to the bloc's ambassador ...

BAGHDAD—ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for an attack in a crowded Baghdad market on Thursday, killing at least ...

SHANGHAI—Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma made his first public appearance since October 2020 on Jan. 20, speaking to ...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. auto safety regulator said on Tuesday it would require Ford to recall 3 million vehicles with ...

MADRID—At least two people died and several were injured when a building in central Madrid belonging to the ...