The UK is preparing a system of regional restrictions to replace the lockdown since December

In the letter, Mr. Cruz wrote that Bishop Barros, who was a priest at the time, witnessed the abuse. Pope Francis has repeatedly discounted the accusations against Bishop Barros as slander, and his defense of him cast a shadow over a trip he made to Chile in January. Last week, facing mounting criticism for siding…

The “dossier,” Mr. MacLeod explained, wasn’t a leaked internal United Nations report. It was a two-page memo he had written for the British government long after he left the United Nations’ employ, plus the text of an email he had sent to people he hoped would support a new nonprofit he and some lawyer colleagues…

Guatemalan immigration authorities have assured that more than 2,300 migrants who made up the caravan, the passage of which was blocked by the country’s National Civil Police on Sunday, have been returned to Honduras, the authorities of which have also confirmed the return of their citizens to the national territory.

North and South Korea agreed during rare talks on Wednesday to form a combined women’s ice hockey team to take part in next month’s PyeongChang Winter Olympics and to march together under a unified flag at the opening ceremony. North Korea won’t be dominating any medal counts at the Games, which will hosted by its…

Brendan Cox, whose Labour MP wife was murdered by a far-right fanatic in June 2016, received hundreds of messages after his comments. He wrote: “Weird thing to do on Christmas Eve but I’d encourage everyone to take a moment to imagine losing the person you love most in the world. “Imagine what you would wish…

Chinese authorities have approved the first patent for a vaccine against COVID-19 in the hopes that it can be mass-produced in the short term should the data deteriorate in the Asian giant, the country of origin of the new coronavirus, and accumulate more than 89,400 Cases. The Intellectual Protection Agency has given the go-ahead for…