Canada’s chief public health officer says the country could face a fourth wave of COVID-19, driven by the delta variant, by the end of summer if restrictions are eased too quickly and before enough people have been vaccinated

Iraq's military says a terrorist attack on a funeral procession has claimed many victims in the country's northern province of Salahaddin

Tunisian authorities jailed an opposition lawmaker and charged four members of the powerful Islamist movement Ennahdha, according to local media

The United Nations says its office in western Afghanistan has come under fire and one of its guards was killed as the Taliban and Afghan forces waged fierce battles in the area

Haitian police say that a fourth officer has been arrested in the killing of President Jovenel Moïse

The firm managing an oil tanker attacked off Oman's coast says two of its crew were killed in the assault

The United States has laid off nearly 200 local staff working for its diplomatic missions in Russia ahead of an Aug. 1 deadline set by the Kremlin for their dismissal

Turkish fire crews are continuing to fight blazes in southern Turkey that burned down homes and forced evacuations

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake has shaken the north Pacific coast of Peru, sending people fleeing their homes and damaging a centuries old church

A bright pink lagoon is setting off red alarms for environmentalists in southern Argentina

Palestinian protesters have clashed with Israeli forces following the funeral of a Palestinian man killed by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank the previous day

The United Nations children’s agency says more than 100,000 children in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region could face the most extreme and life-threatening form of malnutrition in the next year

A top Libyan military commander whose forces control the country’s eastern regions is backing the reopening of the coastal highway along the Mediterranean Sea linking Libya's long-divided eastern and western cities

North Macedonia’s government has launched a 2.5 million euro ($3 million) development fund to support Roma-owed businesses and job agencies to assist the poverty-stricken community

Belarus’ authoritarian president says he's prepared to invite Russian troops into the country, if necessary, to ensure security of both Belarus and Russia

U.S. President Joe Biden says he is moved by Kosovo’s awarding of a medal to his late son Beau, who was in the Balkan country 20 years ago to help establish the rule of law there as it became independent from Yugoslavia

A fierce cold snap is bearing down on homeless people in Brazil, and authorities, activists and religious leaders are doing what they can to keep them warm and limit suffering on the streets

Bosnian Serb lawmakers have rejected a ban on genocide denial, defying the top international official in Bosnia and fueling tensions in the ethnically-divided Balkan country

A small city on Colombia’s Caribbean shore is being crowded with migrants from Haiti and Africa making what they hope will be a journey toward the United States

The United States is pressing Albania’s main opposition Democratic Party to exclude from its lawmakers in the new parliament its former leader Sali Berisha

Rwandan troops have joined Mozambican forces to launch a major offensive against Islamic rebels in northern Mozambique as more troops arrive from South Africa and other neighboring countries to battle the insurgency

Poland's president says he sees the need for changes to the law on disciplining judges that has been criticized by the European Union

The beheading of a young woman in an upscale neighborhood of Pakistan’s capital has shone a spotlight on the relentless violence against women in the country

A Honduran town was hammered by two consecutive hurricanes and then obliterated by a mudslide

Europe’s economy has rebounded into growth in the second quarter