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Britain named former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott as an adviser to its Board of Trade on Friday, rejecting opposition complaints that his conservative views about women, gay rights and climate change made him unfit to represent the United Kingdom...

Governors from 22 Western states and Pacific territories want a bigger say in how the Trump administration defines habitat for wildlife protected under the Endangered Species Act.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said she was denied access to two U.S. Postal Service facilities in South Florida on Friday morning following evidence of delivery delays and other problems.

Egyptian security forces have arrested two journalists, including one sick with COVID19, the latest step in a sweeping crackdown on news media during the pandemic, an international press watchdog reported Friday.

A day after the U.S. Census Bureau said that it has already taken steps to wind down operations for the 2020 census, a coalition of cities, counties and civil rights groups is trying to stop the statistical agency in its tracks.

A documentary on teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, making its premiere Friday at the Venice Film Festival, is seeking to remind a world consumed with the coronavirus crisis that the climate crisis is just as urgent and isnt going away.

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya called on the United Nations on Friday to condemn the violent crackdown by President Alexander Lukashenko on protesters who charge he rigged his reelection victory last month.

Dutch politician Geert Wilders was acquitted by an appeals court on Friday of discrimination, in a partial legal victory for the farright populist who leads the opposition in parliament and who is known for his antiIslam rhetoric.

Belarusian police arrested five university students in the capital Minsk on Friday, human rights activists said, and videos posted on social media showed chaotic scenes of those detained being dragged away by officers through crowded corridors.

Desperate for a drink? There is spitfermented wine, liquor fermented in prison toilets, and a strong Scottish brew served from the mouth of a taxidermied squirrel.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is set to criticize President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the coronavirusravaged economy on Friday as both campaigns kick into high gear with less than two months to go to the Nov. 3 U.S. election.

The Kremlin said on Friday that it wanted dialogue with Germany over the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny and that Russian doctors who treated him initially were much more transparent that the German doctors treating him now.

COVID19 has forced 12 schools in mainland France to close, but the rest of the almost 60,000 opened as planned at the start of the academic year, Education Minister JeanMichel Blanquer said on Friday, as coronavirus cases across the country surge.

A blaze erupted at a fireworks factory in southern India on Friday, killing five workers and injuring another four.

Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi was admitted to a Milan hospital early Friday as a precaution to monitor his coronavirus infection, a top aide said.

Travellers to the United Kingdom faced what the transport minister said was confusion on Friday as Wales and Scotland slapped a quarantine on arrivals from Portugal but England and Northern Ireland held back from restrictions.