Healthcare workers push a patient on a wheel stretcher at the emergency entry at Severo Ochoa Hospital during the coronavirus outbreak in Leganes, near Madrid, Spain, April 11, 2020. /Reuters
A priest celebrates mass for nearby residents and online worshippers from the rooftop of the San Gabriele dell'Addolorata church in Rome. /Tiziana Fabi/AFP April is one of the busiest months o
A notice on the floor outside a supermarket reminding customers to keep a social distance while queueing in London, Britain April 3, 2020. (Xinhua/Han Yan) Lives really do depend on us following the
Security personnel and journalists inspect the Sikh-Hindu temple in Kabul, Afghanistan after a deadly attack. /AFP At least 25 people were killed Wednesday in an attack on a Sikh-Hindu temple
The United States waged a series of precision air strikes on Thursday against an Iran-backed militia in Iraq that it blamed for a major rocket attack a day earlier that killed two American troops and
Sitting at home, Wang Nan, a Dunhuang culture enthusiast in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao, paid her first visit to the Mogao Grottoes via her smartphone. "I was deeply touched by the breathtak
The European Union (EU) is scrambling for a new agreement with Turkey to prevent migrants from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond flooding into the EU. But there is little sign so far that Ankara is
Coronavirus cases surged in Italy, and France closed the world-famous Louvre Museum as the epidemic that began in China sent fear rising across Western Europe, threaten
Saudi Arabia on Thursday suspended visas for visits to Islam's holiest sites for the "umrah" pilgrimage, an unprecedented move triggered by coronavirus fears that raise
DAR ES SALAAM, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- At least 20 people were killed and more injured in a stampede at a church service Saturday evening at a stadium in northern Tanzania, local media reported on Sunday
Palestinians held demonstrations across the region Friday to protest President Donald Trump’s Middle East initiative, while militants in the Gaza Strip fired rockets an
A police officer walks amid debris after a bomb blast in a mosque, in Quetta, Pakistan January 10, 2020. A powerful explosion tore through a mosque in southwest Pakistan during Friday evening
A police officer walks amid debris after a bomb blast in a mosque, in Quetta, Pakistan January 10, 2020. A powerful explosion tore through a mosque in southwest Pakistan during Friday evening
FILE: Burkina Faso soldiers patrol on the road of Gorgadji in the Sahel area in March 2019./ Reuters More than 250 civilians have been killed by Islamist extremists in Burkina Faso in less tha
Morethan100,000SaudisecurityofficerswillbedeployedtoprotectthemillionsofworshippersexpectedtoparticipateintheHajjpilgrimagethisweek.Inthepast,therehavebeendeadl