The country’s health minister cited lab evidence in discussing the transmissibility of the newly identified variant, but much remains unclear about its prevalence and perils.

Residents of five streets of a district in the southern city of Guangzhou are under stay-at-home orders after an outbreak that appeared to have spread from a restaurant.

Many more people are likely to leave town for the Memorial Day holiday this year, meaning travelers facing crowded airports and roads.

Language teachers say the show is a near-perfect amalgam of easy-to-understand English and real-life scenarios that feel familiar even to people who live worlds away from the West Village.

As a college student, he was briefly imprisoned for his activism. He later served President Abdurrahman Wahid and had a thriving career as a media figure.

For half a year, the rodents have been chewing their way around the country’s eastern grain belt, leaving economic and psychological scars.

For 134 years, Insein Prison has stood as a monument to brutality. Since the Feb. 1 coup, journalists, elected leaders and pro-democracy protesters have been held in the aging facility.

Sorely in need of sun and a change of scene, British travelers returned to the newly “green-listed” country and were met by relief, exasperation — and hardly anyone.

The move is the latest Western response to the forced landing of a European commercial flight with a Belarusian dissident aboard.

The move is the latest Western response to the forced landing of a European commercial flight with a Belarusian dissident aboard.