March 6 (UPI) -- An Italian prosecutor has asked for life sentences for two American students who have been charged with murdering a police officer in Rome in 2019.

March 6 (UPI) -- Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, joined other world leaders in receiving the COVID-19 vaccine Saturday.

March 6 (UPI) -- Pope Francis visited Ur, the biblical birthplace of the prophet Abraham, on his second day in Iraq on Saturday.

March 5 (UPI) -- A car bomb in the Somalian capital of Mogadishu left at least 10 people dead and dozens of others injured Friday, local police said.

March 5 (UPI) -- A South Korean man who made a prank call to local police has been arrested after falsely claiming he was a North Korean spy "heading home."

March 5 (UPI) -- Britain's Prince Philip on Friday was moved back to a private hospital in London following a heart procedure this week, royal officials said.

March 5 (UPI) -- Kim Jong Un made a rare appearance at a new workshop for city and county-level officials in North Korea.

March 5 (UPI) -- China warned against interference in Hong Kong on the first day of the 13th National People's Congress.

March 5 (UPI) -- Pope Francis arrived in Iraq on Friday in the first-ever papal visit to the Middle Eastern nation, amid heightened security concerns for the pontiff in what's considered one of the most dangerous countries on Earth.

March 5 (UPI) -- A South Korean politician widely believed to be a contender for the presidency in 2022 was egged in the face on Friday, during a visit to the city of Chuncheon.

SEOUL, March 5 (UPI) -- South Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety granted approval for the use of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech on Friday.

March 4 (UPI) -- A U.N. human rights expert urged the U.N. Security Council and its member states to impose far-reaching punitive measures on the Myanmar military's senior leaders, associates and military-owned companies.

March 4 (UPI) -- Officials in New Zealand on Friday downgraded a tsunami warning after multiple powerful earthquakes struck off the coast earlier in the day.

Nearly constant earthquakes have plagued the main population center of Iceland in recent days, and officials warn this could be a sign of an imminent volcanic eruption.

March 4 (UPI) -- Iran's President Hassan Rouhani warned European signatories of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal Thursday against "political games," at a board meeting for the international agency.

March 4 (UPI) -- The United States and South Korea are to hold joint military exercises Monday, but the training could be reduced in scale due to the coronavirus pandemic.

March 4 (UPI) -- Retail giant Amazon opened its first cashless store in Britain on Thursday, where shoppers can now pick up what they want and entirely bypass a checkout register.

March 4 (UPI) -- Japan's self-defense forces conducted naval drills in an area of the East China Sea.

March 4 (UPI) -- The European Union's chief pharmaceutical regulator said Thursday it has begun a "rolling review" of Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine that could open the door for distribution in the 27-member bloc.

March 4 (UPI) -- A North Korean delegation visited a Chinese city in what could be the first people-to-people exchange between the two countries in a year.