hero to admirers who say he has exposed abuses of power, Assange is cast by critics as a dangerous enemy of the state who has undermined Western security. He says the extradition is politically motivated

South Korea has reported more than 120 new virus cases and the country's fourth fatality, raising the total number of those infected to 556.The fresh national figures for the disease that emerged in China

EU budget summit ended without agreement on Friday following a stand-off between wealthy "frugal" member states and other countries.The so-called "frugal four" of Denmark, Austria, Sweden and the Netherlands

Japan's annual core consumer inflation picked up only slightly in January, keeping the Bank of Japan under pressure to maintain its massive monetary stimulus to support a fragile economy saddled with weak

A group of United States federal judges have reportedly postponed a widely-anticipated emergency meeting in which they were expected to discuss the growing controversy over intervention by the US Department

woman has been arrested after climate activists dug up a lawn outside a Cambridge University college.Extinction Rebellion members destroyed part of the lawn at Trinity College on Monday in a protest over

The heavily armed Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, is a main backer of Diab's cabinet, which took office last month after efforts failed to strike a deal with Saad al-Hariri, a traditional Western ally.Gulf

China has announced a drop in new cases from the coronavirus outbreak for a third consecutive day.On Sunday, authorities reported 2,009 new cases and 142 more deaths nationwide.New cases spiked earlier

Attorney General William Barr took a public swipe at President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying that the president's tweets about Justice Department prosecutors and cases "make it impossible for me to

World markets started shrugging off the worst of the coronavirus impact last week and stock markets have since reached record highs. China's announcement that new cases of the so-called COVID-19 detected

The European Union will only offer Britain unique access to its vast single market if the U.K. agrees to stick to the bloc's standards, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday,

Lagarde pledged to spend more time listening, and not to front-run decisions before policymakers had weighed in, as her predecessor Mario Draghi was often accused of doing.In return, she asked for discipline

South Koreans reacted with rare collective joy Monday after director Bong Joon Ho and his movie "Parasite" won Oscars for best picture and three other categories, good news that came as their country struggles

For the first time in years, a commercial passenger plane has flown across the Atlantic in less than five hours.A British Airways flight landed early Sunday morning at Heathrow Airport in London after

China's virus death toll rose by 89 on Sunday to 811, passing the number of fatalities in the 2002-03 SARS epidemic, but fewer new cases were reported in a possible sign its spread might be slowing as

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said the Islamic Republic should become strong enough to confront enemies' plots, state TV reported on Saturday."We should become so strong to be able to put an

Israeli warplanes have fired missiles at targets near Syria's capital, Damascus, Syrian state media report.The Sana news agency said air defences intercepted most of the missiles, but that eight people

The White House excluded CNN on Tuesday from its annual off-the-record briefing with television news personalities prior to the State of the Union address with no public protest from the network or any

Health authorities are preparing for a possible pandemic as they work to contain a respiratory illness in China that’s caused by a new virus. Governments are limiting travel, isolating sick people and

Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog on Sunday declared: “Spring will be early, it’s a certainty.”At sunrise on Groundhog Day, members of Punxsutawney Phil’s top hat-wearing inner circle revealed the cuddly