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The president of the Czech Senate arrived in Taiwan on Sunday on a visit that has drawn sharp criticism from China.

Mainland China reported nine new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Saturday, all them imported, the National Health Commission said on Sunday, meaning there were no locally transmitted infections for a record 14th straight day.

Berlin police broke up a mass protest against coronavirus curbs on Saturday and arrested 300 in the German capital after demonstrators failed to keep their distance and wear masks as instructed.

Victoria, Australia posted 114 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, a day after they fell to 94 which had put them below triple digits for the first time in nearly two months.

Prison inmates in Mexico have suffered from coronavirus infections at a higher rate than the country as a whole, and pandemic lockdowns have reduced their already limited contact with the outside world.

North Macedonias parliament started debate Saturday on a vote of confidence for a new leftwing coalition government after the Social Democrats and their ethnic Albanian partners secured a majority of seats in July's general election.

The Trump administration was the first government to back Guaido's January 2019 claim to be Venezuela's acting president in a challenge to Maduro's authority.

Two years after a conservative commentator told LeBron James to "shut up and dribble," the NBA star has become an increasingly influential political force as issues of racial justice and voter suppression move to the forefront in the November presidential...

China reported nine new confirmed cases of coronavirus on Friday, the same number as the previous day, with all of them travelling into the country from overseas, the national health authority said on Saturday.

Taking issue with Sen. Mitch McConnell's caution in addressing the nation's racial discord, a former university president in Kentucky on Friday urged the Republican majority leader to speak out against President Donald Trump's efforts to create a greater...

Communications from jail show the leader of a cultlike selfimprovement group in upstate New York has no remorse over his conviction last year on charges he turned some of his followers into sex slaves, even calling his conspiracy noble, prosecutors said F...

After being forced to cancel all its spring season performances due to the coronavirus outbreak, Finland's National Opera is opening this fall with an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart featuring a topical twist: a story line that reflects on the Nordic cou...

German doctors treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for a suspected poisoning say the dissident is still in an induced coma but his condition is stable and his symptoms are improving.

Belarus' authoritarian leader accused NATO on Friday of hatching aggressive plans as he sought to shore up his 26year rule amid weeks of demonstrations against his reelection in a vote the opposition says was rigged.

Gearing up for a key election next year, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has wielded corruption as both a stick with which to beat political adversaries, and a lightning rod to deflect criticism from his record in office.

The number of dolphins washed up dead near a Mauritius oil spill site increased to 38 on Friday, a government official told Reuters.