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Omicron infections are multiplying across Europe, the US and Asia, prompting new measures.

Mexico has a relatively simple asylum process and approves more than 95 percent of applications, foreign minister says.

US president renews his call for Americans to get vaccinated and receive booster shots amid Omicron variant's spread.

COVID pandemic, decreased migration and fewer births among reasons for low population growth, US Census Bureau says.

The move elevates a company that’s already the world’s biggest by market value.

Despite months of negotiations and preparations, Libya's presidential elections look set to be postponed.

IOM spokesperson Safa Msehli says at least 102 migrants were reported dead after their wooden boat capsized off Libya.

Indigenous community members block roads calling for justice after children massacred amid bloody land dispute.

The latest variant of the coronavirus is hammering the United Kingdom's hospitality sector and other businesses.

UN head concludes 'solidarity' visit of crisis-hit Lebanon, calls for end of political paralysis

The deal ends a standoff between the cereal maker and factory workers in Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.

Ex-president reiterated false claims of election fraud, calling the deadly January 6 riots 'completely unarmed protest'.

Gov't agency put NSO Group's Pegasus spyware on phone months before Saudi journalist's killing, Washington Post finds.

A massive lithium deposit in Mexico’s Sonora state was exempt from AMLO’s drive to nationalise strategic minerals.

Far-right demonstrators converge outside parliament, waving national flags, blocking traffic and chanting 'freedom'.

A London judge ordered Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to pay his estranged wife Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein.

South Africa's ex-leader will spend Christmas at home after court allows him to appeal the order to end his parole.

The tit-for-tat sanctions add to spiralling tension over complaints of abuses in China's northwestern Xinjiang region.

Erdogan unveiled an emergency plan late on Monday to protect people with lira deposits against wild currency swings.

Ali Harbi Ali, 25, is accused of stabbing David Amess several times as he held a meeting with constituents.

Russian president says he is not seeking 'bloodshed' in Ukraine and explains his fears of NATO's 'expansion'.

UN receives 13 allegations of rape by security forces during Sunday's rally in Sudan, while medics report second death.

The announcement comes as the Biden administration released a raft of measures aimed at ramping up domestic response.

The autocrat, the artist and the struggle for freedom and justice in China and beyond.

Architect Josephine Malonza tackles Rwanda’s urban housing needs while learning from the country's painful past.

Josué Mukeba, a copper digger in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, stands up for diggers’ rights.

The US-Russian tensions over Ukraine reflect the deficiencies of the US strategy in the post-Soviet space.

The Olympics has the power to inspire so it is commendable that World Rowing is taking risks to build its movement.

Move by Imad al-Sayeh, head of High National Elections Commission, effectively postpones December 24 vote.

The visit comes as the eighth round of Iran nuclear deal talks is set to begin next week in Vienna.

People from the devastated country are not fleeing from the war’s horrors, but from the misery of its aftermath.

Modi is focus of huge advertising blitz touting government's triumphs in fighting COVID despite nearly 500,000 deaths.

Amid the kitsch hotels and eerie off-season silence, a new community is adjusting to life outside their homeland.

Soumana Boura, leading member of Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, was killed in a drone attack, French army says.

Turkey's lira makes gains after Erdogan unveils plan to guarantee local currency deposits against market fluctuation.

Management has shut factory for a week after workers protested over food poisoning incident which sent 150 to hospital.

Upholding a centuries-old craft, artisans in the region are busy painting Christmas decorations to be shipped overseas.

Protesters march towards shuttered US embassy, calling for release of Afghan assets, frozen since Taliban took power.

Foreign ministry says Hassan Irloo was transferred to Tehran in bad state 'due to late cooperation of some countries'.

Official at the international airport in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, says UN aid flights halted after the air attacks.

Survivors of Typhoon Rai say they are running out of water and food as two people die of dehydration on Siargao island.

Nasar Thootha's charity gives out once-used wedding attires donated by privileged families to women of limited means.

Nomadic Amazigh tribes in the area face long periods of isolation when winter sets in.

Clashes between protesters and police break out in capital of North Kivu province.

Richard Daschbach jailed for 12 years after he was charged with sexually abusing vulnerable girls in his care.

Foreigners sold $4bn of stocks as concerns about the Omicron virus variant roil global markets.

Huang Wei, aka Viya, has been accused of concealing personal income and making false declarations in 2019 and 2020.

Omicron cases account for 73.2 percent of new US infections as Texas reports first death linked to the variant.

Global Witness says Myanmar's lucrative gemstone trade is an important source of funding for the country's military.

South Pacific nation had planned to loosen border restrictions in phases from January.