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Chancellor Angela Merkel and the governors of Germany's 16 states were conferring Tuesday on how to prevent the country's coronavirus infection figures from accelerating to the levels being seen in other European countries, and new restrictions were possi...

There are no signs that China is preparing for allout war with Taiwan, such as massing troops along its eastern coast, Taiwan's defence chief said on Tuesday, after repeated Chinese drills near the island that China claims as its own.

France's environment minister has announced a gradual ban on using wild animals in traveling circuses, on keeping dolphins and killer whales in captivity in marine parks and on raising mink on fur farms.

The departing U.S. ambassador on Tuesday defended a tough approach to China that has riled relations between the world's two largest economies, saying the Trump administration has made progress on trade and that he hopes it will extend to other areas.

UNITED NATIONS United Nations Secretary-General Antnio Guterres says the loss of 1 million people to the coronavirus is an agonizing milestone" that has been made worse by the savageness of this disease."

Shares in Japanese telecoms giant Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, or NTT, fell Tuesday on news it is preparing for a takeover of its mobile phone carrier NTT DoCoMo.

Ivanka, who serves as a senior adviser to her father in the White House, has been a prominent fixture during her father's political career.

The coronavirus forced 84yearold Chung Seongran to do something new to celebrate South Korea's Thanksgiving holiday instead of being visited by her daughter.

President Donald Trumps nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court has close ties to a charismatic Christian religious group that holds men are divinely ordained as the "head of the family and faith. Former members of the group, called People of Praise, say it te...

A woman charged with making threats against President Donald Trump by mailing a package containing ricin to the White House was ordered held without bail Monday by a judge in Buffalo who cited a very strong case" against her based on an indictment in Wash...

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The United Nations estimates that illegal outflows of capital from Africa totaled over $830 billion in the first 15 years of this century, much of it linked to movements of highvalue commodities like gold, diamonds, and platinum straining the ability of...

A mother has been charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of her 5yearold daughter on Chicago's West Side over the weekend, police said Monday.

Three Iraqi civilians were killed and two severely wounded after a katyusha rocket hit near the vicinity of Baghdad airport, two Iraqi security officials said Monday.

Democrats in the Washington state Legislature thought they had passed a routine sex education requirement for public schools earlier this year. But a coalition of Republicans and religious conservatives launched a swift, historic backlash that's led to a...

Enbridge's plans for drilling an oil pipeline tunnel beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes do not meet industry standards and pose significant hazards to workers and the environment, experts who reviewed project documents on behalf of oppositio...