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Czech voters evicted the communists from parliament on Saturday for the first time since the end of World War Two, voting out a party whose forebears ruled the central European nation from 1948 until the Velvet Revolution of 1989 that ushered in democracy...

Brazil became the second country in the world to pass 600,000 COVID19 deaths on Friday, a dark milestone for a government that has been sharply criticized for mismanaging the outbreak.

Czechs wrap up voting in a tight election on Saturday in which Prime Minister Andrej Babis battled criticism that he mismanaged the pandemic, stoked fastrising debt with handouts and tend to his own business interests in office.

Russian authorities on Friday labeled nine more journalists and three media organizations as foreign agents, part of efforts to sideline critics hours after a Russian journalist won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize.

Marie Wilcox, a Native American woman in California who saved her tribes dying language, has died. She was 87.

California is the first state to let some adult children add their parents as dependents on their insurance plans, a move advocates hope will cover the small population of people living in the country illegally who don't qualify for other assistance progr...

In 2012, Ressa, 58, co-founded Rappler, a digital media company for investigative journalism, which she still heads.

An Australian doctors group warned that a toorapid easing of COVID19 restrictions in Sydney could put pressure on health systems and risk lives, as the country's biggest city prepares for an end to more than 100 days in lockdown.

North Korea, Thailand and Indonesia were declared noncompliant by the World AntiDoping Agency (WADA) on Thursday, making them ineligible to be awarded the right to host regional, continental or world championships during the suspension.

A jury on Thursday convicted a man of capital murder in the 2015 shooting deaths of his exgirlfriend, her husband and six children, including his own son, at a Houstonarea home.

The FDA will have to decide if there's enough evidence that the shots are safe and will work for younger children like they do for teens and adults.

Pakistan blocking land routes is a major obstacle to India sending food aid to Afghanistan.

Attorneys for a cybersecurity lawyer charged last month in a special counsel's probe into the TrumpRussia investigation asked federal prosecutors Wednesday to provide more information about the indictment, calling the allegations vague, illdefined and con...

Days after kicking out seven U.N. officials, Ethiopia accused them without providing evidence Wednesday of inflating the magnitude of humanitarian crisis and taking sides in the war in its Tigray region, while U.N. SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres presse...

Mexico passed a milestone of sorts in September when the airport at the countrys biggest coastal resort, Cancun, surpassed prepandemic levels of passengers.

The highlight of the Nobel season, the prestigious peace prize always elicits a flurry of speculation. But predicting the winner is a giant guessing game.