[ad_1] Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside a fever clinic at a county hospital in China’s industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometers southwest of Beijing. His mother-in-law has COVID-19 and needs urgent medical attention, but all nearby hospitals are full. “They said…
[ad_1] The death toll from the pre-Christmas blizzard in the United States has risen to 50, authorities said, with the toll in western New York at just 27 as rescue and recovery efforts continued Monday. Dead people have been found…
[ad_1] A prominent former Iranian soccer player who has expressed support for anti-government protests said his wife and daughter were barred from leaving the country on Monday after their flight to Dubai made an unannounced stop. Ali Daei, who had…
[ad_1] For the second time in two days, a group of weak and exhausted Rohingya Muslims landed on a beach in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh on Monday after weeks at sea, officials said. At least 185 men, women and…
[ad_1] People in China, cut off from the rest of the world for three years by COVID-19 restrictions, flocked to travel sites on Tuesday before borders reopened, even as rising infections strained the health system and disrupted the economy. Zero-tolerance…
[ad_1] The co-leader of the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been sentenced to 16 years in prison. Adam Fox returned to federal court Tuesday, four months after he and Barry Croft Jr. He is accused of leading…
[ad_1] Russia announced on Tuesday it would ban oil sales to countries that adhere to a price cap imposed this month by the West, providing a long-awaited response to the most dramatic step taken so far to limit Moscow’s ability…
[ad_1] Former Pope Benedict XVI, a hero for conservative Catholics and who in 2013 became the first pope in 600 years to resign, is “very sick,” Pope Francis’ successor said Wednesday, asking members of the Catholic Church to pray for…
[ad_1] Russian forces stepped up mortar and artillery attacks on the recently liberated city of Kherson in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, Ukraine’s military said, while also exerting constant pressure on front lines in the country’s eastern region. Russia fired 33…
[ad_1] The UN Security Council on Tuesday rejected a ban on women’s rights in Afghanistan, calling on the country’s Taliban rulers to immediately reverse it. The Security Council “reaffirms its concern over the suspension of schooling beyond the sixth grade,…