Your hands connect you to the world. During a virus outbreak, that’s not a good thing.

The idea of women striking has existed for years in different parts of the world, but this year in Mexico, it’s taken on a new life with the horrific, back-to-back murders of a young woman and a 7-year-old girl.

The campaign has pushed more than a dozen political leaders out of restaurants, malls and other venues in the past few months.

Three nurses in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca became viral heroes in the fight against the coronavirus thanks to a video they made in 2016 on the correct way to wash one's hands.

Two neighboring Embassy Row properties in Washington, DC, have been boarded up for years. The buildings are caught in a unique sort of real estate limbo as diplomatic relations between the US and Iran are suspended. But if walls could talk, wild parties might be on the tip of their tongues.

On Monday night, Colombia’s Constitutional Court voted to uphold a previous ruling that allows the procedure when a woman’s life is at risk, the fetus is malformed or the pregnancy is a result of rape.

The country has seen a rise in reported femicides and violence against women. Despite the president's promises to address the violence, his administration has cut programs aimed at helping women and girls.

The Greek government is working to expand refugee camps, but many Greek residents oppose such a move and violence has escalated this week.

Outside China, South Korea has the highest number of COVID-19 cases. On Tuesday, the Korea Centers for Disease Control (KCDC) announced the number of infections had surpassed 5,000 and attributed at least 28 deaths to the virus.

As Indian officers are accused of standing by during violent persecution of Muslims, one policewoman describes the hardships of trying to change the force from the inside.