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The third-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House is predicting Democrats will pick up as many as a dozen House seats.

An elderly man and woman, a young passer-by and a waitress were killed, and 22 people including a policeman were wounded, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer told a news conference. Vienna's mayor said three people were still in critical condition.

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The girl immediately asked for water and ayran, a salty drink made from yoghurt. Rescuers said they became aware there was still someone alive at the site on Monday night, before painstakingly working to reach her.

Afghanistan is likely to receive reduced pledges for aid from international donors gathering in Geneva next month, three sources familiar with discussions said, amid uncertainty over

The French government will reimpose an evening curfew on Paris, and possibly the IledeFrance region around the capital, to tackle worsening COVID19 figures, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Tuesday.

Thirtyfive U.S. Senate seats are on the ballot Tuesday, which will determine control of the legislative chamber for the next two years.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden spent Monday swarming the swing states that will decide the election before converging on the pivotal battleground of Pennsylvania where both were holding major rallies.

Poles staged further protests in cities across the country on Monday ahead of the expected entry into force of a ruling by the Constitutional Tribunal that bans most abortions and that has prompted nearly two weeks of demonstrations and rallies.

A largescale police operation is ongoing at a Vienna synagogue following gunfire Monday, police in the Austrian capital said.

President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden each has a path to win the White House. The former vice president is competitive in all the battleground states Trump carried in 2016, and has put a handful of traditional Republican states, inclu...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson in his ongoing effort to avoid a lawsuit filed by a police officer injured during a 2016 protest in Louisiana triggered by the police killing of a Black man.

A federal judge in Texas on Monday appeared skeptical of an attempt by Republicans to throw out about 127,000 votes already cast in the U.S. presidential election at drivethrough voting sites in Houston, a Democraticleaning area.

More than 3.6 million Slovaks two thirds of the population took part in a widelywatched nationwide coronavirus testing programme over the weekend, Prime Minister Igor Matovic said on Monday.

Europe's top basketball league features teams from 10 countries navigating COVID-19 cases, international travel restrictions and last-minute postponements. It makes the NBA bubble look like a walk in the amusement park.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Florida death row inmate whose conviction was based in part on the testimony of a controversial jailhouse informant.