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New vaccination centers are due to open this month in the heart of two California communities especially hard hit by the coronavirus, as state and federal officials try to tackle racial and economic disparities hindering U.S. immunization efforts.

Taiwan has opened a representative office in Guyana, the island's foreign ministry said on Thursday, drawing praise from the United States which has worried about deepening Chinese influence in Latin America.

The coup has sparked international condemnation and fears the military will drag 54 million people back to the decades of junta rule that turned Myanmar into one of Asia's most impoverished and repressive nations.

British Parliament's Petitions Committee will consider a Westminster Hall debate in the House of Commons complex on the issue of farmers protests and press freedom in India after an online petition attracted over 106,000 signatures. While the list of sign...

Russian journalist Sergei Smirnov said on Wednesday he had been jailed for 25 days in connection with a protest in support of imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit accusing Yale University of having illegally discriminated against Asian and white applicants in undergraduate admissions.

Indonesia launched a COVID19 screening programme at train stations on Wednesday using a breathalyzer it hopes can find positive cases in a country battling one of the worst coronavirus epidemics in Asia.

Myanmar's army seized power on Monday, detaining Nobel laureate Suu Kyi and cutting short a transition to democracy in a takeover that has drawn condemnation from the United States and other Western countries.

At the end of an empty hallway in a Burkina Faso teaching hospital, a group of children sat together in medical gowns, nervously awaiting operations that could save their lives.

Two of three teenage boys will be tried as adults for charges of murder and arson in a Denver house fire that killed five Senegalese immigrants, including two young children, prosecutors said on Tuesday.

China wants to use Myanmar as another base in its ‘string of pearl’ strategy, through which it intends to encircle India by developing military bases in neighbouring countries.

Candace Parker talked about seeing her grandmother hold up the newspaper during their call, thrilled she is coming home to play for the Chicago Sky.

The Senate confirmed Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday as President Joe Biden's homeland security secretary, the first Latino to fill a post that will have a central role in the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, a sweeping Russialinked cyber...

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell has praised embattled No. 3 House Republican Liz Cheney as a leader with deep convictions and courage, even as he's criticized the looney lies of a hardright House GOP freshman as a cancer on the party.

John Sweeney, who spent 14 years steering the AFLCIO through a time of declining union membership and rising internal dissent, has died. He was 86.

Reports suggest 400 lawmakers of the country, including Aung San Suu Kyi, are still under arrest.