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Around one thousand supporters of the rightwing Proud Boys group, some armed, rallied in Portland, in the U.S. state of Oregon on Saturday in a largely peaceful event that drew far fewer followers than organizers forecast and state authorities had feared.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the Australian budget, to be delivered Oct. 6, will be a titanic effort to return the country to economic growth amid the coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump's campaign committee and the Republican National Committee sued Saturday to block North Carolina election officials from enforcing rule changes that could boost the number of ballots counted in the presidential battleground state.

Some residents of the southern city of Cape Town posted on Twitter that they had felt the tremor, which the USGS said occurred at around 1710 GMT, at a depth of 10 kilometres and far south of South Africa's coast.

Hundreds of Roma protested against police brutality in North Macedonia's secondlargest city Saturday.

He announced that the UK is boosting its funding for the World Health Organization by 30%, to 340 million pounds ($432 million) over the next four years, and urged world leaders to acknowledge 'that alarm bells were ringing before this calamity struck' an...

Belarusian security forces detained dozens of protesters on Saturday as crowds rallied in central Minsk accusing President Alexander Lukashenko of rigging last month's election.

A car bomb killed at least seven civilians in a Turkishcontrolled area of northeastern Syria on Saturday, Syria's staterun news agency and a war monitor reported.

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren tapped a Black woman to become the new interim city police chief, saying Saturday she will bring a fresh approach to policing amid the tumultuous aftermath to Daniel Prudes death.

Two decades ago, Florida's hanging chads became an unlikely symbol of a disputed presidential election. This year, the issue could be poorly marked ovals or boxes.

According to the study, published in the journal ACS Nano, facing a shortage of the masks early this year, researchers considered a number of ways to disinfect them for reuse, including ultraviolet light, hydrogen peroxide vapours, autoclaves and chemical...

Despite multiple attacks targeting journalists and media persons, the federal cabinet did not take up the issue in any of its first 62 meetings that were held between September 1, 2018 and January 30, 2020.

Actress Billie Lourd has announced the birth of her son.

A single dose of Johnson & Johnson's experimental COVID19 vaccine produced a strong immune response against the novel coronavirus in an earlytomid stage clinical trial, according to interim results published on Friday.

President Donald Trump tried on Friday to chip away at his Democratic rival's support among Hispanic voters in Florida, who could determine the election outcome in this crucial battleground state.

A top Iranian constitutional official on Friday dismissed the imposition of U.S. sanctions on Iranian judges for alleged gross human rights violations and hit back at the United States over police violence against black people there.