Antarctica remains the only continent without COVID-19.

Officials say more than 50 people are dead after landslides collapsed three artisanal gold mining wells near the city of Kamituga in eastern Congo’s South Kivu province on Friday.

Hundreds of people in Italy have walked in a funeral procession for a young Black man whose brutal beating death has shaken up the country and drawn condemnation from the highest levels of government.

Thousands of asylum-seekers spent a fourth night sleeping in the open on the Greek island of Lesbos, after successive fires destroyed the notoriously overcrowded Moria camp during a coronavirus lockdown.

Iran’s state TV is reporting that the country’s authorities has executed a wrestler for allegedly murdering a man after President Donald Trump asked for the 27-year-old condemned man’s life to be spared.

The Venice Film Festival is wrapping up the first COVID-era international cinema showcase with critics, filmmakers and actors alike cheering organizers for having dared to hold the festival amid a pandemic.

The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution on tackling the coronavirus pandemic over objections from the United States and Israel, which protested a successful last-minute Cuban amendment that strongly urges countries to oppose unilateral economic, financial or trade sanctions.

Bahrain is the latest Arab nation to agree to normalize ties with Israel as part of a broader diplomatic push by President Donald Trump and his administration to fully integrate the Jewish state into the Middle East.

A majority of U.N. Security Council members are calling for an immediate halt to fighting between Myanmar government forces and the Arakan Army guerrilla force.

Thousands of refugees and migrants have spent a third night in the open on the Greek island of Lesbos after two successive nights of fires in the notoriously overcrowded Moria camp left them homeless.

Belarusian authorities have detained scores of demonstrators while seeking to end more than a month of protests against the country’s authoritarian president, who is set to visit Russia to help shore up his hold on power after 26 years in office.

A Norwegian lawmaker says he has nominated the governments of the United States.

The commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe, the continent's democracy watchdog, has expressed her concerns about a decision by Hungarian media authorities not to renew the broadcast license of a radio station which often airs views critical of the government.

Human Rights Watch says terrorism charges against former Bolivian President Evo Morales appear to be politically motivated and are part of a wider campaign by Bolivia’s interim government to use the justice system against political opponents.

The humanitarian group Mediterranea Saving Humans says it has transferred on board its ship 27 migrants who have been on board a tanker in international waters off Malta since early August.

All five intensive care beds dedicated to COVID patients are full in the Laveran Military Training Hospital in Marseille, and its doctors are bracing for more.

The prime ministers of four central European countries say a new election should be held in Belarus to allow the country’s voters to decide the course of its future.

Berlin’s Justice Ministry has approved a request from Moscow for legal assistance in the investigation of the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and has tasked state prosecutors with working with Russian authorities.

Households in England’s second-largest city, Birmingham, are being urged to stop socializing with others from Friday as part of a dramatic tightening of coronavirus restrictions in the wake of a sharp spike in new confirmed cases.

U_S_ Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is warning that much anticipated negotiations between Afghanistan’s warring parties are likely to be “contentious.”.

WikiLeaks says the London court hearing on founder Julian Assange’s extradition from Britain to the United States is set to resume after a COVID-19 test on one of the participating lawyers came back negative.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Japan should make a major change to its defense policy by developing a first-strike capability on enemy bases to defend against imminent attacks amid rising missile and nuclear threats in the region.

Switzerland has agreed in principle with Uzbekistan on the terms under which money seized as part of a money-laundering investigation against the eldest daughter of former Uzbek President Islam Karimov will be returned to the Central Asian nation.

The U.K. has secured its first major post-Brexit trade deal after signing an agreement with Japan just as discussions with the European Union appeared to be on the verge of collapse.

The Indian and Chinese foreign ministers have agreed their troops should disengage from a tense border standoff, maintain proper distance and ease tensions in the Ladakh region where the two sides had their deadliest clash in decades in June.

The number of new COVID-19 cases is spiking in parts of Eastern Europe, with Hungary and the Czech Republic registering all-time highs.

India edged closer to recording nearly 100,000 coronavirus cases in 24 hours as it ordered retesting of many people whose first results were from the less reliable rapid antigen tests being widely used.

Finance ministers from five of Europe’s biggest economies are calling for the European Union to produce strict rules for new, privately backed digital currencies and ban those that don’t comply.

Authorities in southern Italy say police have arrested four men and are investigating another four on suspicion of sexually assaulting two British girls at a villa where a party was being held.

The man who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” for saving people from genocide and who is now accused of terrorism in Rwanda has spoken to his family for the first time since being paraded in handcuffs on Aug. 31.

A court in Spain has sentenced a former Salvadoran colonel to 133 years in prison for the slaying of five Spanish priests in El Salvador more than three decades ago.

Russian children have returned to schools after attending classes online since the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in late March.

French President Emmanuel Macron has taken a tough line in the wake of Beirut’s massive port explosion, setting deadlines for Lebanon's politicians to carry out reforms.