Gabrielle Reyes

A company in Thailand has allegedly shipped up to tens of millions of used nitrile gloves — some "visibly soiled... even blood-stained" — to U.S. companies since at least February, according to a CNN investigation published Monday.

Nearly 400 escaped prisoners remain at largein Nigeria on Monday afterunidentified gunmen stormed the Abolongo Prison in southwestern Nigeria's Oyo state on Friday, killing two guards and releasing 837 inmates,Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

Canada's federal government announced Thursday it will ban anyone without a "vaccine passport" — a certificate proving he or she has received a Chinese coronavirus vaccination — from boarding all planes, trains, and ships in Canada for foreign or domestic travel, starting October 30.

Members of Afghanistan's Taliban terror group allegedly beheaded a female member of the Kabul Municipality Volleyball Club in recent weeks according to a claim made Tuesday by a coach for the Afghan women's national volleyball team, the New York Post reported Thursday.

Five staff members of Indonesia's Ministry of Law and Human Rights oversaw a civil service entrance exam on East Java Wednesday while wearing costumes based on characters from the South Korean Netflix TV show Squid Game, Coconuts Jakarta reported Thursday.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) announced plans on Thursday for a "profound transformation" of its "culture" in the wake of the agency's latest sexual abuse scandal in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (D.R.C.

An Indian diplomat's microphone conspicuously cut out during a United Nations (U.N.) transport conference in Beijing last week just as the envoy began to criticize China's infrastructure-building Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported Wednesday.

The Communist Party in Lanzhou, the capital of northwest China's Gansu province, sealed off the city's residential communities and banned residents from leaving on Wednesday after allegedly detecting six cases of the Chinese coronavirus in the city of 4.4.

A teenage resident of Indonesia's Aceh province claimed on Tuesday a local police station refused to accept her report of an alleged rape attempt on Sunday because she was not vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus, Indonesia's Coconuts Jakarta news site reported Thursday.

Singapore, which has a Chinese coronavirus vaccination rate of 82 percent,recorded its highest single-day increase in new locally transmitted cases of the virus Tuesday with 3,994 infections.

Cybercriminals successfully hacked a coronavirus contact tracing app operated by the Malaysian Health Ministry on Tuesday, Kuala Lumpur confirmed Wednesday.

The navies of both China and Russia dispatched a joint group of 10 vessels to sail through Japan's Tsugaru Strait — which links the Sea of Japan with the Pacific Ocean — on Monday, Japan's Defense Ministry said.

Zimbabwe's federal government confirmed on Sunday that any civil servants unvaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus will be denied the right to work and be paid starting on Monday, Voice of America (VOA) reported.

Thousands of people opposed to the populist government of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele staged demonstrations in the country's capital city, San Salvador, on Sunday in which they denounced his recent legalization of Bitcoin as a national currency, the Associated Press (AP) reported

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Makers of apps that allow users to read and listen to the Bible and Quran, including Amazon's Audible, announced Friday they had removed such apps from China's Apple Store citing Chinese government "permit requirements.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused a CNBC reporter of purposefully acting as if she did not hear his answer to her question regarding Russia's supply of natural gas to Europe, the U.K.

Rwandan authorities announced Thursday the arrest of six people for "publishing rumors" allegedly designed to spark a political "uprising," Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

Chilean PresidentSebastián Piñera declared a state of emergency in the country's south on Tuesday after militant members of the Mapuche indigenous group used "heavy caliber weapons" to attack local police, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Wednesday.

Boxer-turned-politician Manny Pacquiao, who recently retired from the ring to run for the Philippine presidency in 2022, said Thursday he would not allow his country to "be bullied" by Beijing in the South China Sea if elected president, ABS-CBN reported.

Opposition lawmakers in Chile launched impeachment proceedings against the country's president, Sebastián Piñera, on Wednesday, claiming he was involved with alleged irregularities in the 2010 sale of a mining company according to details recently divulged in the Pandora Papers leak.