Brazil's COVID-19 death toll has passed 200,000, the health ministry says, as daily new cases accelerated to a record of 87,843 after year-end holidays in

Turkey called for the resumption of talks with Greece which, according to Ankara, could resume in January after a five-year lull. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Thursday said that he expects to meet with his Greek counterpart,

The US will find it harder to advocate for democracy and rule of law abroad after the assault on the Capitol unless it grapples with Trump's role in the violence, current and former US diplomats say.

Abu Bakar Bashir was sentenced to 15 years jail for funding militant groups in 2011, but his term was slashed in a round of sentence reductions.

Andrew Chiu, a district councilor who helped coordinate the July primaries, said police broke into his home to arrest him under the national security law.

Greece is forecast to experience some of its highest January temperatures of the last 50 years, the meteo weather service of the National Observatory of Athens said on Friday. Temperatures will be as much as 15C higher than normal for this time of year.

A real estate broker from Frisco, Texas flew on a private jet to Washington, DC, along with friends to “storm the Capitol” on Wednesday.

Worsening floods in several Malaysian states have displaced some 46000 people with 12487 families being sheltered in 426 flood relief centers

The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has reported its first COVID-related death some 10 months after initially detecting the virus and managing to keep the disease under control by largely sealing off the tourism-dependent country.

Beijing crackdown on pro-democracy protestors continues with impunity Just a day after police arrested dozens of former lawmakers and opposition activists H