Joe Biden formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Friday, setting him up for a bruising challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump that will play out against the unprecedented backdrop of a pandemic, economic collapse and civil unrest.
The French military and allied forces in Mali killed the longtime leader of al-Qaeda's North African arm, who commanded jihadists in his native Algeria and then spread their movement across Africa's Sahel region, France's defense minister said Friday.
U.S. President Donald Trump invoked George Floyd's name as he delivered remarks trumpeting the latest unemployment numbers, which showed the U.S. economy unexpectedly adding 2.5 million jobs last month.
The U.S. unemployment rate unexpectedly fell in May and layoffs abated, the Department of Labour said on Friday in a report that showed the latest signs the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic was bottoming.
With the deadline for a possible extension of the Brexit transition period looming, a fourth round of talks on a future trade deal between the European Union and the U.K. ended Friday without result.
A video of a police officer appearing to shove an elderly protester who falls and cracks his head in Buffalo drew widespread condemnation and the suspension of two officers.
Britain's official human rights watchdog is to mount an inquiry into the racial inequalities exposed by the coronavirus pandemic, which has topped 6.6 million cases worldwide and led to more than 391,000 deaths. Here's what's happening around the world on Friday.
The tenor of the protests set off by the death of George Floyd at the hands of police has taken a turn from the explosive anger that has fuelled the setting of fires, breaking of windows and other violence to a quiet, yet more forceful, grassroots call for more to be done to address racial injustice.
The United States is prepared to reassess its intelligence-sharing arrangement with Canada if Huawei is given the green light to take part in building Canada's 5G networks, a State Department spokesperson said today.
An aberrant event in the life of the American republic unfolded this week in the haze of flash-bang grenades and fires. Past and present military officials pushed back on a president's threat to deploy troops on U.S. soil. It has raised some uncomfortable questions.
Three of the authors of an influential article that found hydroxychloroquine increased the risk of death in COVID-19 patients retracted the study on concerns about the quality of the data.
