The US government’s top infectious disease expert warned Sunday a new wave of coronavirus infections could be on the way, pointing to the climb in cases in Europe as something the US must work to avoid. Anthony Fauci said the decline in cases the US had seen over the past several weeks has begun to […]

Myanmar police and military forces killed at least 38 protesters on Sunday, most of them the country’s largest city Yangon, an advocacy group said. At least 126 protesters have been killed since the military coup in early February ousted the civilian government, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners said. More than 2,100 people have been […]

The overall death toll for Syria’s civil war has reached 388,652 since it began a decade ago this month, a war monitor said on Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the figures includes almost 117,388 civilians, among them more than 22,000 children. Attacks by the Syrian regime and allied militia forces accounted […]

Dozens of protesters kicked and threw rocks at a minibus carrying Argentine President Alberto Fernandez on Saturday as he visited an area devastated by forest fires, TV footage showed. As he left a community center in the town of Lago Puelo in the southern Patagonia region, Fernandez had to take refuge behind a wall of […]

Chad President Idriss Deby Itno kicked off his campaign for a sixth term on Saturday, calling for unity after rival protests were banned and broken up. The first rally since the start of the official election period on Thursday was held by Deby’s Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS) at a packed stadium in the capital, N’Djamena. […]