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Muhammad Idul tells the BBC the force threw him from his boat before a desperate race to hospital.

“Unprecedented” swarms of desert locusts, the worst in decades, are devouring crops in East Africa.

One of the passengers on the Ukrainian jet downed by Iranian missiles earlier this month was a businesswoman who was the boss of two companies cited in a UN report for links to the shadowy arms trade supplying the protracted civil war in Libya.

Speaking on the tenth anniversary of the 2003 SARS crisis, Zhong Nanshan, one of the heroes in China’s fight against that disease, described its as a “turning point” for the nation.

Much is still unknown about the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak and health officials are urging vigilance.

Social media videos appear to show patients overcrowd hospitals in Wuhan — a city under partial lockdown — due to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. CNN’s David Culver reports.

The Trump administration will implement a new policy Friday to make it more difficult for foreign nationals to travel to give birth on US soil to ensure their children become American citizens, a practice commonly known as “birth tourism.”

Banks are meant to hold cash. But in Switzerland, some rich savers are looking for alternatives.

The top court of the United Nations has ordered Myanmar to prevent acts of genocide against the country’s persecuted Rohingya minority and to stop destroying evidence, in a landmark case at The Hague.

Vice President Mike Pence announced Thursday that Israel’s Prime Minister and opposition leader will visit the White House next week to discuss “regional issues as well as the prospect of peace.”