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Britain's BBC World News was barred on Friday from airing in China, while Hong Kong's public broadcaster said it was suspending carriage of the television channel, a week after Britain's media regulator revoked Chinese state television's UK broadcast lice...

Winter weather battered the United States from coast to coast on Thursday as a series of storms expected to last for days mixed with an arctic air mass to bring snow and freezing rain as far south as Texas where there was a deadly multivehicle pileup.

The normally voluble Jack Ma has been staying out of the public eye. He earlier cancelled a TV appearance and avoided social media. That had prompted a flurry of speculation about what might have happened to Ma, China's biggest global business celebrity a...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered new sanctions against the military regime in Myanmar, taking action after the military this month staged a coup in the Southeast Asian country and arrested de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior politici...

The United States said on Tuesday it was "deeply concerned" about Haiti's fragile institutions, although it stopped short of chastising President Jovenel Moise after his government retired three Supreme Court judges who posed a threat to his leadership.

Indonesia's air accident investigator will brief relatives of the 62 victims of last month's Sriwijaya Air crash in Jakarta on Wednesday morning ahead of the release of a preliminary report in the afternoon, a family member told Reuters.

The Latest on former President Donald Trump's second Senate impeachment trial (all times local):

Four Thai activists were remanded in prison on Tuesday after being prosecuted for insulting the king, their lawyer said, as the first cases of lese majeste stemming from rallies that demanded reforms to the powerful monarchy went to court.

Iran launched a vaccination drive against COVID19 on Tuesday, focussing initially on hospital intensive care personnel as the hardesthit country in the Middle East awaits enough vaccines for its general population.

Britain is looking at greater testing of all people who have arrived from abroad while they are selfisolating to defend against new variants of the virus that causes COVID19, a minister said on Tuesday.

According to the scientists, including those from the University of Texas in the US, these variants have a substitution of the amino acid building blocks that make up the viral spike protein -- the part of the virus which enables it to enter human cells

Myanmar protesters opposed to last week's military coup defied road blocks and bans on large gatherings to extend the biggest demonstrations in more than a decade on Tuesday, chanting and confronting police who fired water cannons and warned them to dispe...

The interim warden appointed to run the federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein died was put in the position after serving as the executioner for at least five federal executions at the end of the Trump administration.

Chinese side Shandong Luneng was expelled from the Asian Champions League on Monday for breaching financial rules.

Johnson & Johnson will speed up deliveries of its COVID19 vaccine to South Africa, a senior government official said on Monday, after the country suspended plans to roll out AstraZeneca shots due to disappointing trial data.

Emmanuel Nizard made a 2 million euro bet last year that President Emmanuel Macron's call for France to manufacture the face masks it needed would guarantee a secure market.