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European Union Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan will resign later on Wednesday over alleged breaches of COVID19 guidelines during a trip to his native Ireland, a spokesman for the commissioner said.

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Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Mackensie Alexander was jailed Wednesday on a charge of misdemeanor battery after deputies say he beat up a man shortly after returning to Florida to help search for his missing father.

China's BGI Genomics said on Wednesday its coronavirus testing kit has "relatively high accuracy", a day after Sweden said about 3,700 people received false positive results due to a fault in the company's product.

Vermin Supreme, the perennial presidential candidate from New Hampshire who wears a boot on his head and promises every American a free pony, is mounting a writein campaign for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts.

Protesters in Portland smashed windows at City Hall in a demonstration that started Tuesday night and stretched into Wednesday morning and police made 23 arrests as they dispersed the crowd in Oregon's largest city, officials said.

A white woman is facing felony child abuse charges after police say she slapped an 11yearold Black child and called him a racist slur after his gokart bumped hers at a Florida amusement park.

While the European Union considers who in Belarus should be sanctioned for alleged election fraud and police brutality, EU member Lithuania proposed its own list Wednesday of those it holds responsible for voterigging and violence against peaceful protest...

Frances prime minister is urging his compatriots to wear masks more but insisted Wednesday that rising coronavirus infections across the country are nothing to panic about and that its time for people to get back to work and school and to cultivating them...

Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Wednesday the country was at risk of losing its control over the country's coronavirus outbreak after a spike in the number of cases following the massive explosion in Beirut on Aug 4.

Myanmar ordered all schools to close after reporting 70 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday, its biggest daily rise, as authorities try to tackle a resurgence of the virus following weeks without confirmed domestic transmission.

Turkey is determined to do whatever is necessary to obtain its rights in the Black Sea, Aegean and Mediterranean, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday.

Admiral Colombage became the first-ever foreign secretary from a military background when he was appointed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to head the Foreign Ministry on August 14.

Two people died and one person was injured as shots were fired late Tuesday in Kenosha during the third night of unrest in Wisconsin following the shooting of a Black man by police, Kenosha police said.

A United Nations lawyer urged judges Wednesday to reject former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic's claim that he was not responsible for mass killings and displacements in the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica, as the former general's appeal against hi...