The state-run Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation says more than 80 people have been killed in unrest in Ethiopia after a popular singer was shot dead this week

China has called on India to stop unspecified discrimination against Chinese goods and companies in the midst of tensions over a border clash

Myanmar's government says a landslide at a jade mine in the country’s north has killed 50 people, though a local lawmaker says the toll was almost twice as high

South Africa is three months into a ban on the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products, an unusual tactic employed by a government to protect the health of its citizens during the coronavirus pandemic

Hong Kong police arrested a man onboard a London-bound flight on suspicion of stabbing a police officer during protests of the new security law

The coronavirus death toll in Brazil keeps rising and among the dead is a little girl named Vitoria Gabrielle from a working class Rio de Janeiro neighborhood

Paul McCartney and Ed Sheeran are among more than 1,500 musicians asking the British government to step in and save the country’s world-renowned live music scene from devastation by the coronavirus pandemic

India’s number of coronavirus cases has passed 600,000, its infection curve is rising and its testing capacity is being increased

Mexican authorities say gunmen burst into an unregistered drug rehabilitation center in central Mexico and opened fire, killing 24 people and wounding seven

New Zealand’s health minister has resigned following a series of personal blunders during the coronavirus pandemic

Media tycoon Jimmy Lai says Hong Kong is now “dead” under the new national security law imposed by China

Blocks-long lines have formed at food markets, bus stops and shopping centers in Peru’s capital as people leave their homes en masse to go to work or shop as a 106-day coronavirus lockdown ends in many parts of the country

For the first time in almost a century, Mexico has cancelled its professional baseball season

Opponents accused the British government on Wednesday of putting lives at risk by failing to share information about local coronavirus outbreaks with affected areas

A cyclone has hit the southern region of Brazil, killing nine people

The U.N. Security Council is demanding an “immediate cessation of hostilities” in key conflicts including Syria, Yemen, Libya, South Sudan and Congo to tackle COVID-19

Mexico’s health system has so far not been overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic, mostly because the country chose early on to invest in expanding hospital beds

Danish authorities say the motive behind the slaying of a biracial man on a Baltic Sea island was a personal relationship gone wrong rather than a racially motivated killing

Mexico is celebrating the implementation of a new free trade agreement with Canada and the United States that it hopes will lead to more investment in its struggling economy

Accusations that a group of soldiers sexually assaulted two young Indigenous girls in rural Colombia have sparked protests outside army bases and rekindled fears about the military’s human rights record, especially in parts of the country still recovering from decades of armed conflict