DHAKA — Busy with his brushes beneath a tarpaulin roof, Rohingya artist Ansar Ullah works on a mural depicting a giant vial of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine towering over the ramshackle homes of the world’s largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh. 

PARIS — French voters go to the polls on Sunday in regional elections that will test the appeal of far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s softened image less than a year before the next presidential election. 

Australia’s top economists overwhelmingly back government measures to speed the transition to electric cars in order to meet emission reduction targets. 

ATLANTA/CHICAGO — Marching bands sparked loud cheers and quieter reflections about racial justice from crowds gathered on Saturday to mark Juneteenth as a new US federal holiday commemorating the end of the legal enslavement of Black Americans.  

HONG KONG — Hong Kong democracy supporters flocked to buy copies of pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily on Friday, citing anger over a police raid of its newsroom as...

SYDNEY/BEIJING — A World Bank-led project declined to award a contract to lay sensitive undersea communications cables after Pacific island governments heeded US warnings that participation of a...

Coronavirus-related deaths worldwide passed a grim milestone of 4 million on Thursday, according to a Reuters tally, as many countries struggle to procure enough...

WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday issued guidance easing the way for delivery of products such as face masks, ventilators, and vaccines to combat the coronavirus...

WASHINGTON/GENEVA -— President Joseph R. Biden on his first foreign foray sought to cast Russia not as a direct competitor to the United States but as a bit player in world where Washington is increasingly pre-occupied by China.

SYDNEY/CANBERRA — Australia will recommend only people over 60 receive AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, the country’s minister for Health Greg Hunt said on Thursday, following a spate of blood clots in those who have received the inoculation.

HONG KONG — Five hundred Hong Kong police officers sifted through reporters’ computers and notebooks at pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily on Thursday, the first case in which authorities have cited media articles as potentially violating the national security law.

SHANGHAI — A senior Chinese epidemiologist said the United States should be the priority in the next phase of investigations into the origin of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) after a study showed the disease could have been circulating there as early as Dec. 2019, state media said on Thursday.