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Ukraine and Belarus traded angry accusations Wednesday over thousands of Hasidic Jewish pilgrims who have remained stuck on their border after Ukraine denied them entry because of coronavirus restrictions.

The Trump administration health official embroiled in a furor over political meddling with the coronavirus response is taking a leave of absence, the government announced Wednesday.

A bit after sunrise, dozens of Indigenous Temb men began preparing for the important day ahead. They danced, chanted and donned matching black Tshirts before setting off on motorbikes into Brazil's Amazon forest.

Is it possible the election will be up in the air and we won't have a president on Inauguration Day: Jan. 20, 2021?

Classes were canceled at Western Illinois University on Wednesday and all the buildings locked down as police searched for a student who allegedly shot and wounded his roommate in their dormitory on Tuesday night, the school said.

Trump's retweet of a fake video purported to show the Democrat playing a crudely worded anti-police rap song.

Many people have been profiteering from the coronavirus pandemic in Mexico; prices for oxygen cylinders, medicinal alcohol and face masks all have skyrocketed. But perhaps the cruelest are the socalled pirate ambulances that take advantage of patients' de...

Gunmen seized a businessman in front of his wife and son Wednesday in the southern Philippines and government forces were trying to track down the abductors and their victim, police said.

Csar Garca, a veteran reporter for The Associated Press who ventured across Colombia to tell the story of the nations armed conflict, has died. He was 61.

Independent experts commissioned by the U.N.s top human rights body have alleged the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro committed crimes against humanity.

Bosnian Serb authorities on Wednesday held an official commemoration for a top former wartime leader, despite his war crimes conviction by a U.N. court.

Authorities in western Germany have suspended 29 police officers suspected of sharing farright propaganda in WhatsApp groups, at least two of which were active for several years, a top security official said Wednesday.

The splitting headaches began when smoke from wildfires rolled in around Tim Hunt's suburban Seattle home. Next came a debilitating fatigue.

Turkish police detained more than 100 people, mostly soldiers on active duty, in an operation on Wednesday targeting supporters of the Muslim preacher who Ankara says was behind a failed coup in 2016, stateowned Anadolu news agency reported.

The European Union's chief executive lashed out against homofobic policies of the nationalist government in Warsaw in saying on Wednesday there was "no place" in the bloc for districts proclaimed "LGBTfree zones" in Poland.

The European Union will build its own agency for biomedical research and convene a global health summit in Italy next year in a bid to be better prepared for future pandemics, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday.