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China reported its ninth consecutive day with no new locally transmitted COVID19 cases, as a major university in the city of Wuhan opened for facetoface classes on Tuesday for the first time in eight months.

Leaders on the U.S. Gulf Coast warned Monday that Tropical Storm Laura could rapidly intensify into one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the region and urged residents to prepare before landfall in Texas or Louisiana expected in the next 48 hours.

Three miners who were trapped in a coal mine for five days have been rescued and are now recovering at a hospital near Colombias capital city.

An American consultant has been charged in an illicit lobbying effort to get the Trump administration to drop an investigation into the multibilliondollar looting of a Malaysian state investment fund, and to arrange for the return of a Chinese dissident l...

When protesters gathered at one of Virginias Confederate monuments in June, police say a state senator approached them with a warning: (T)hey are going to put some paint on this thing, and yall cant arrest them.

Authorities in a northeastern region of Bosnia, decrying an alleged failure by other parts of the country to share the load of a lingering migration crisis, have set up roadblocks to prevent Europebound migrants from entering the territory under their jur...

U.S. Postmaster Louis DeJoy told lawmakers on Monday that he planned to resume some costcutting measures that have factored in widespread service delays, defying Democratic lawmakers who have sought to block his changes.

A fire in wine country north of San Francisco and another southeast of the city have within a week have grown to be two of the three largest fires in state history

Austria said Monday it is expelling a Russian diplomat, a decision that the Russian Embassy in Vienna said was unfounded and would draw a response from Moscow.

The United States will ensure that Israel still holds a military advantage in the Middle East under any future U.S. arms deals with the United Arab Emirates, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday.

The number of foreigners staying in Spanish hotels rose in July to over 1.1 million after the country came out of one of Europe's strictest coronavirus lockdowns in late June, but was still only about onesixth of last year's levels, data showed on Monday.

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny remains in critical but stable condition in a Berlin hospital where he is being treated after a suspected poisoning, a German official said Monday.

A Malaysian coroner began an inquest Monday into the death of a FrenchIrish teen, a year after her naked body was found near a nature resort where she mysteriously vanished while on holiday.

The Cap d'Agde resort in the Herault region, hugely popular among naturists, saw 38 positive tests on Monday and another 57 on Wednesday.

Sicilys governor has ordered all migrant residences on the Italian island to be shut down by Monday, part of a pushback by Italian regions alarmed by a surge in COVID19 cases a few weeks before schools are to reopen.

A roadside bombing on Sunday in eastern Afghanistan killed seven civilians, a provincial official said, the latest in relentless deadly violence in the country amid new uncertainties over the start of talks between the Taliban and the Kabul government.