World News

South Korea reported an eight-fold jump in viral infections Saturday with more than 400 cases mostly linked to a church and a hospital, and the death toll in Iran climbed to six in the wake of a new virus that started in China but has spread globally

A violent police strike in northeastern Brazil has shed light on dissatisfaction among cops elsewhere in the country, with some forces threatening to protest as rowdy Carnival celebrations start

South Sudan has opened a new chapter in its fragile emergence from civil war with rival leaders forming a coalition government

Hundreds of supporters of Julian Assange have marched through London to demand the British government’s refusal to extradite the WikiLeaks founder to face spying charges in the United States

American dairy farmers, distillers and drugmakers have been eager to break into India, but it looks like they’ll have to wait

The West African nation of Togo is holding a presidential election amid concerns about how fair the vote will be and the likelihood the incumbent will win a fourth term

The rampage this week in Germany in which a gunman killed nine people with foreign backgrounds was the country’s third deadly far-right attack in a matter of months

A festive mood has enveloped Ahmedabad, in India’s northwestern state of Gujarat ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting there on Monday with President Donald Trump, whom he’s promised millions of adoring fans

The U.S. military’s annual counterterrorism exercise in West Africa is occurring in the shadow of possible U.S. troop cuts at a time when extremist attacks have reached a worrying new level in the region

A U.N. report says Afghanistan passed a grim milestone with more than 100,000 civilians killed or hurt in the last 10 years since the international body began documenting casualties in a war that has raged for 18 years

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should be basking in the limelight this year in the run-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Thailand’s Constitutional Court has ordered the popular opposition Future Forward Party dissolved, declaring that it violated election law by accepting a loan from its leader