With a relatively low number of cases, many question the need for such measures.

Video shows officer in Allentown restraining a man outside a hospital by pressing his knee on the man's neck.

General Yusuf Rage escaped unhurt when a blast targeted his convoy in the Somali capital.

Two World Health Organization experts have gone to China for a mission to trace the origin of the pandemic.

Why historical buildings in Iraq's capital Baghdad are under threat and what is being done to save them.

A community in western Indonesia is banding together to support a group of 99 Rohingya refugees, who they rescued from Indonesian waters late last month.

Caught between the fighting and COVID lockdowns, Al Jazeera meets a migrant who has come to Libya for a better life.

After a delay of 15 years, Nigeria's international gas pipeline is finally under way.

About a dozen journalists protest 'secrecy' over Safronov's arrest for allegedly passing secrets to the Czech Republic.

Three men convicted of murder are scheduled to die by lethal injection this week at an Indiana prison from Monday.

'Nobody can rewrite history', Thaci says, before answering questions on his alleged war crimes committed in the 1990s.

The claim that we are making 'wonderful progress' against global poverty is a fallacy based on a colonial mindset.

Rights groups say Mohammed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa were tortured to extract false confessions over bombing of convoy.

Azerbaijan and Armenia trade blame over a new escalation at their border that killed at least four Azerbaijani soldiers.

Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio among those targeted days after US sanctioned Chinese officials over alleged abuses in Xinjiang.

Rights group raises concern over unsafe working conditions for front-line workers, low pay, reprisals in some countries.

Several dozen officers and helicopters search for a man armed with a bow and arrow among other weapons.

At least 43 injured as gunfire followed the blast near National Security Directorate office in Samangan province.

Xu Zhangrun was detained for a week for writing articles critical of President Xi Jinping's handling of the pandemic.

The 59-year-old, whose mother was anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, died in a Johannesburg hospital.

Latin American nation reports more than 35,000 deaths from COVID-19, surpassing Italy but behind US, Brazil and UK.

Thousands of beds for coronavirus patients lie empty, even as cases rise in the country.

In just three weeks, India has gone from the world's sixth-worst affected country by the virus to the third.

Conservationists alarmed as at least 20 Olive Ridley turtles, a vulnerable species, found dead on Cox's Bazar beach.

Muslim groups worry white supremacist behind worst shooting in New Zealand history plans to use dock to spew hatred.

Origin of explosion on Sunday morning unknown, but Navy says all crew accounted for and situation under control.

Daniel Lee execution was expected on Monday, but family of victims now says will appeal, citing right to view execution.

Experts say cases in South American country likely far higher while study shows record corporate debt due to pandemic.

Move comes after former special counsel defended his investigation into collusion between President Trump and Russia.

Since alcohol sales were reintroduced in June, hospitals have experienced a spike in emergency ward admissions.