A man was shot Monday night as protesters in New Mexico's largest city tried to tear down a bronze statue of a Spanish conquistador outside the Albuquerque Museum, prompting the city to announce that the statue would be removed until officials determine the next steps.
New Zealand said on Tuesday that it has two new cases of the coronavirus, both related to recent travel from the U.K., ending a 24-day streak of no new infections in the country.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in's efforts to defuse rising animosities came after North Korea threatened Friday to destroy an inter-Korean liaison office located in North Korea and take unspecified military steps against South Korea.
State and federal authorities will monitor the investigation into the death of a black man found hanging from a tree in the Southern California city of Palmdale, officials said Monday following large weekend protests.
The origins of a new cluster of coronavirus infections in Beijing are uncertain, World Health Organization officials said on Monday, but the claim that it might have been caused by imports or packaging of salmon was not the "primary hypothesis."
Doctors Without Borders said on Monday it would close its maternity clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan, fearing further fatal attacks.
Ireland's two dominant centre-right parties have agreed to form a coalition for the first time in a deal that will also put the Green Party at the centre of policymaking and end a political stalemate triggered by an inconclusive February election.
Gunmen killed 24 Malian soldiers in an ambush on their convoy in central Mali on Sunday, a spokesperson for the West African nation's army said.
The Supreme Court is for now declining to get involved in a debate by citizens and in Congress over policing, rejecting cases Monday that would have allowed the justices to revisit when police can be held financially responsible for wrongdoing.
On Monday, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed that CEO Jeff Bezos is willing to testify to a congressional panel. That panel is investigating potential violations of U.S. antitrust law by big technology companies.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday revoked the emergency use authorization for malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, the use of which has been championed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a watershed victory for LGBT rights, ruling that a landmark federal law forbidding workplace discrimination protects gay and transgender employees.
Nationwide, more than 45,500 residents and staff have died from coronavirus outbreaks at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, according to a running count by The Associated Press. That's about 40 per cent of the more than 115,000 total deaths.
"Non-essential" retailers — those selling fashion, toys and books, among other items — are reopening Monday across England for the first time since the country went into lockdown in late March to try to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
A Russian court on Monday sentenced an American businessman to 16 years in prison on spying charges, a sentence that he and his brother rejected as being political.
China's capital is bracing for a resurgence of the coronavirus, with more than 100 new cases reported over recent days in a city that hadn't seen a case of local transmission in more than a month
