Workers check oxygen tanks at a hospital in Manaus, Brazil. Severe oxygen shortages as a second coronavirus wave is surging have prompted local authorities to airlift patients to other parts of Brazil.Jonne Roriz | Bloomberg via Getty Images Back in April, COVID-19 hit the city of Manaus, Brazil, extremely hard. ...

People and security forces gather at the site of deadly bomb attacks Thursday in a Baghdad market. The rare suicide bombings killed and wounded dozens of civilians.Hadi Mizban | AP Updated at 6:56 p.m. ET Twin suicide bombings at a Baghdad market killed at least 32 people and injured 110 ...

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, pictured at the White House in December, was among the 28 Trump administration officials sanctioned by China.Evan Vucci | AP China imposed sanctions Wednesday on 28 former Trump administration officials, including outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In a statement released just minutes after ...

President Joe Biden is directing the U.S. to rejoin the international Paris Climate Agreement, which aims to cut global greenhouse gas emissions. Here, activists rally on Dec. 12, 2015.Francois Guillot | AFP via Getty Images Updated 5:45pm Eastern Time In one of his first acts in the Oval Office, President ...

Swarms of locusts have reached dangerous levels in parts of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. They're reproducing rapidly in part because of unusual rainfall patterns.

No, Washington, D.C., is not Baghdad, despite now having a Green Zone of its own. But the events of Jan. 6 make the comparison more apt than any of us would wish.

Research suggests the vaccine prevents disease only 50% of the time. But it could still have a big impact. And many countries are betting on it.

"I believe this genocide is ongoing," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a forceful statement issued on his last full day representing the U.S. to the world.

"Humility and confidence should be the flip sides of America's leadership coin," Antony Blinken testified at his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, where he vowed to work for the "greater good."