Mediation between Jordan's King Abdullah II and his outspoken half-brother, Prince Hamzah, successfully de-escalated one of the most serious political crises in the kingdom in decades, the palace and a confidant of the prince said Monday.
North Korea's sports ministry said on Tuesday that it will not participate in the Tokyo Olympics this year to protect its athletes amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Israel's embattled leader Benjamin Netanyahu helped a business couple clinch deals worth hundred of millions of shekels in exchange for favourable coverage of him on a news website they controlled, an Israeli court heard Monday.
Britain's businesses from barbers to bookstores will be allowed to reopen next week as the U.K. emerges from a three-month lockdown.
The emergency room doctor who pronounced George Floyd dead after trying to resuscitate him testified Monday that he theorized at the time that Floyd's heart most likely stopped because he didn't get enough oxygen.
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Monday vetoed legislation that would have made his state the first to ban gender-confirming treatments or surgery for transgender youth.
With at least 160 dead and dozens injured, rescuers in Indonesia and East Timor struggled with continuous rains caused by a tropical cyclone as they tried to cross damaged bridges and roads to search for survivors and begin repairs to the Southeast Asian archipelago.
Ronald Smith, 63, originally from Red Deer, Alta., has been on death row in Montana for 38 years. His fate could become more tenuous as the state gets closer to removing obstacles that prevent it from resuming executions.
India reported its biggest single-day spike in confirmed coronavirus cases since the pandemic began Monday, and officials in the hard-hit state home to Mumbai are resuming the closure of some businesses and places of worship in a bid to slow the spread.
Two months after a market phenomenon took shares of GameStop to the moon, the video game retailer said Monday that it will sell up to 3.5 million of its shares with the price still vastly elevated.
