Author : David Appleton

The Covid-19 pandemic has driven nearly 37 million people into extreme poverty and reversed two decades of progress in vaccinating children against once-common childhood diseases,...

HONG KONG—China’s arrest of 12 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists, nabbed as they tried to flee the city by boat in the face of an intensifying...

A Chinese pharmaceutical company has injected hundreds of thousands of people with experimental Covid-19 vaccines, as its Western counterparts warn against administering mass vaccinations before...

BOGOTÁ, Colombia—A government minister overseeing the police apologized for the death of Bogotá man in police custody and said two officers have been fired, as...

SHIMADA, Japan—Menchie Yunson’s first instinct was to return to the Philippines when she found herself jobless in a foreign country in the middle of a...

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde at a press conference in Frankfurt on June 4. Photo: adrian petty/Shutterstock By Tom Fairless Close Tom Fairless Updated...

The Trump administration will cut the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to about 3,000 this month, a top military commander said in the country...

People queue for food in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Sept. 3. A national survey said 47% of households ran out of money to buy food...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with his wife, in hat, and supporters in Moscow in February. Photo: kirill kudryavtsev/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images By Bojan Pancevski Close...