Russian Court Postpones Trial of Journalist Prokopyeva Due to Coronavirus 

Russian Court Postpones Trial of Journalist Prokopyeva Due to Coronavirus 

A Russian court has ordered a delay in the trial of journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, who faces terrorism-related charges for publishing...

Turkey Blocks Saudi and UAE News Websites 

Turkey Blocks Saudi and UAE News Websites 

Turkish authorities blocked Saudi and United Arab Emirates news websites on Sunday, days after the sites of Turkey’s state broadcaster...

US Navy Complains of Another ‘Unsafe’ Russian Jet Interception 

US Navy Complains of Another ‘Unsafe’ Russian Jet Interception 

U.S. military officials have complained that a Russian fighter jet came dangerously close to a U.S. surveillance plane in the...

In Shadow of Coronavirus, Muslims Face a Ramadan Like Never Before

In Shadow of Coronavirus, Muslims Face a Ramadan Like Never Before

Days before the holy fasting month of Ramadan begins, the Islamic world is grappling with an untimely paradox of the...

Nations Seek to Ease Nursing Home Loneliness Yet Keep Safe

Nations Seek to Ease Nursing Home Loneliness Yet Keep Safe

Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes just wanted to do the humane thing. After so many frail and elderly nursing home...

Australia to Force Google, Facebook to Pay for News Content

Australia to Force Google, Facebook to Pay for News Content

Australia says Facebook and Google will soon have to pay news outlets for their content.  Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced Monday that...

Pandemic Forces First-ever Digital Holocaust Remembrance Day

Pandemic Forces First-ever Digital Holocaust Remembrance Day

Berthe Badehi, who hid from the Nazis as a child during World War II, has become one of the many...

Global Health Crisis Pits Economic Against Health Concerns

Global Health Crisis Pits Economic Against Health Concerns

The global health crisis is taking a nasty political turn with tensions worsening between governments locked down to keep the...

Rescued Migrants to Quarantine on Ferry Off Italy

Rescued Migrants to Quarantine on Ferry Off Italy

Some 180 migrants rescued at sea will be held in isolation on an Italian ferry off the coast of Sicily,...

2.3 Million COVID Cases Around the World 

2.3 Million COVID Cases Around the World 

Coronavirus cases rose to 2.3 million around with world, with the U.S. seeing steady increases but several other countries reporting...

World Cruise, Begun Before Virus Pandemic, Approaching Spain 

World Cruise, Begun Before Virus Pandemic, Approaching Spain 

Passengers on a luxury liner’s around-the-world cruise, begun before the globe was gripped by the coronavirus pandemic, are finally approaching...

Orthodox Churches Hold Diminished Easter Services Amid Pandemic 

Orthodox Churches Hold Diminished Easter Services Amid Pandemic 

Orthodox Christians observed the Easter holiday amid extraordinary coronavirus-related restrictions on services that forced many parishioners to watch services on...

Hundreds of Parishioners Attend Orthodox Easter Vigil in Georgia

Hundreds of Parishioners Attend Orthodox Easter Vigil in Georgia

Hundreds of Christian parishioners went to churches in ex-Soviet Georgia to attend Orthodox Easter Vigil despite a state of emergency...

Greece Relocates 50 Migrant Minors to Germany Amid Coronavirus

Greece Relocates 50 Migrant Minors to Germany Amid Coronavirus

Fifty unaccompanied minors have been transferred from Greece to Germany. They are the second group of relocations in a week...

Germany Staggers World With Low COVID-19 Death Rate

Germany Staggers World With Low COVID-19 Death Rate

BREMEN, GERMANY — While countries around the world struggle with a lack of hospital beds and equipment for coronavirus patients,...

Lockdown Weighs Heavily on Orthodox Christians During Easter

Lockdown Weighs Heavily on Orthodox Christians During Easter

For Orthodox Christians, this is normally a time of reflection and mourning followed by joyful release, of centuries-old ceremonies steeped...

2 NASA Astronauts, Russian Cosmonaut Return to Earth From ISS

2 NASA Astronauts, Russian Cosmonaut Return to Earth From ISS

Two U.S. space agency NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut landed Friday in Kazakhstan after months on board the International...

Health Expert: Britain Responded Too Slowly to Virus Outbreak

Health Expert: Britain Responded Too Slowly to Virus Outbreak

A public health professor said Friday the British government responded too slowly to the COVID-19 outbreak, and the nation could...

German Health Minister Says Coronavirus Now ‘Manageable’

German Health Minister Says Coronavirus Now ‘Manageable’

Germany’s health minister said Friday the COVID-19 outbreak in that country has become manageable, because the number of patients who...

Expert Says UK Likely Has Europe’s Highest Virus Death Rate

Expert Says UK Likely Has Europe’s Highest Virus Death Rate

A leading public health expert said Friday that Britain likely has the highest coronavirus death rate in Europe due to...

UN, EU, US Welcome Release, Exchange of Prisoners in E. Ukraine

UN, EU, US Welcome Release, Exchange of Prisoners in E. Ukraine

The United Nations, the European Union and the United States welcomed the release and exchange of prisoners in eastern Ukraine,...

FBI Official Says Foreign Hackers Targeting COVID-19 Research

FBI Official Says Foreign Hackers Targeting COVID-19 Research

A senior cybersecurity official with the FBI said on Thursday that foreign government hackers have broken into companies conducting research...