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World leaders pledged emergency relief on Sunday to help Lebanon after last week's massive blast destroyed swathes of Beirut and piled more pressure on the country's debtladen economy.

Ecologists fear if the ship further breaks it could inflict a potentially fatal blow to on the island nation's coastline.

As the new academic year arrives, school systems across the United States are struggling to cope with the COVID19 pandemic. Roman Catholic educators have an extra challenge trying to forestall a relentless wave of closures of their schools that has no en...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar arrived in Taiwan on Sunday in the highestlevel visit by an American Cabinet official since the break in formal diplomatic relations between Washington and Taipei in 1979.

One man died and three people including a young child were seriously injured when a bus crashed into a ditch on the side of a highway in Hungary, police and rescue officials said Sunday.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a public relations campaign to ensure schools reopen on time in September and said in a meeting that they should be the last places to close even in case of a local lockdown, The Sunday Times newspaper repo...

President Donald Trump on Saturday intends to sign an executive order intended to provide economic relief to Americans hurt by the coronavirus pandemic after the White House failed to reach a deal with Congress, a White House source said.

Reopening schools is easy. Keeping them open will be the hard part.

A huge blast rocked a military base in Somalia's capital Mogadishu near a stadium on Saturday, killing at least eight people and injuring 14, emergency workers said.

It was almost as if Emmanuel Macron forgot that Lebanon is no longer a French protectorate.

After 26 consecutive years in office, the autocratic leader of Belarus is confronting something unfamiliar as he tries to win a sixth term: circumstances beyond his control.

Joe Arpaio on Friday was narrowly defeated in his bid to win back the sheriffs post in metro Phoenix that he held for 24 years before being voted out in 2016 amid voter frustrations over his taxpayerfunded legal bills, his penchant for selfpromotion and a...

Airstrikes in northern Yemen killed as many as nine children, a United Nations official said Friday, making it the third such attack with significant child deaths in that rebelcontrolled region this month.

More than 160,000 people have died from COVID19 in the United States, according to a Reuters tally on Friday, as talks over an economic relief bill broke down between Democrats in Congress and the White House.

Thousands of bikers poured into the small South Dakota city of Sturgis on Friday as the 80th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally rumbled to life despite fears it could lead to a massive coronavirus outbreak.

Norwegians should avoid all travel abroad, even to countries with few COVID19 cases, to prevent a resurgence in the coronavirus, the health minister said on Friday.