President of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Organizing Committee Seiko Hashimoto (right) talks to Tokyo 2020 Vice Director General Yukihiko Nunomura before a press briefing on the operation and media coverage of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay in Tokyo on Thursday.Behrouz Mehri | AP The traditional prelude to the Olympics, the ...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2019.Dmitri Lovetsky | AP Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is warning of a coup after the army issued a scathing statement faulting his leadership and demanding he step down following a conflict ...

People hold posters of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, near Saudi Arabia's Consulate in Istanbul, marking the two-year anniversary of his death.Emrah Gurel | AP Updated at 5:41 p.m. ET The Biden administration is expected to release a report soon that addresses the key question in the 2018 killing of ...

This page is updated regularly. In late January 2020 only a few dozen COVID-19 infections had been identified outside of China. Now the virus has spread to every corner of the globe. More than 100 million infections have been reported worldwide, and the death toll is above 2 million, according ...

William Burns, President Biden's nominee for CIA director, testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. Burns served more than 30 years at the State Department and would be the first career diplomat to lead the spy agency.Tom Williams | AP President Biden's nominee to lead the CIA, William Burns, ...

An employee makes dry ice pellets at Capitol Carbonic, a dry ice factory in Baltimore in Nov. 2020. Dry ice helps keep COVID-19 vaccines cool during transport.Saul Loeb | AFP via Getty Images Vaccines are like milk. Both make us stronger, but if stored at the wrong temperature, they spoil. ...

In a photo taken last week at Babushkinsky District Court, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures during a hearing.AP Amnesty International says it no longer considers jailed Russian anti-Kremlin activist Alexei Navalny a "prisoner of conscience," citing past comments he's made that "reach the threshold of advocacy of hatred." The ...

Polio vaccinator Zeenat Parveen, holding the clipboard, and a volunteer go door-to-door to reach children in Rawalpindi, a city near the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.Diaa Hadid/NPR The pandemic and polio are colliding in Pakistan. It's definitely harder for the country to keep up its efforts to wipe out this highly ...

Presiding judge Anne Kerber (left) stands before handing the verdict to Syrian defendant Eyad al-Gharib (right, face hidden under a folder) Wednesday in Koblenz. Gharib, 44, a former Syrian intelligence service agent, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in jail for complicity in crimes against humanity in the first court ...

A medical worker gives a coronavirus vaccine shot to a patient at a vaccination facility in Beijing, in January. Two pharmaceutical companies in China announced Wednesday they are seeking market approval for new vaccines.Mark Schiefelbein | AP Chinese pharmaceutical makers are seeking market approval from Beijing for two new coronavirus ...