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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who spearheaded the Republican bill that failed, had offered a more expansive, $1 trillion coronavirus measure in July. Amid strong opposition from Democrats and many of his fellow Republicans, he was unable to even...

Quebec Premier François Legault on Thursday announced fines for people who fail to wear a mask in indoor public spaces as more Canadian provinces step up efforts to curb the spread of the new coronavirus.

Russia announced last month that its vaccine, named "Sputnik V" after the Soviet-era satellite that was the first launched into space in 1957, had already received approval. This raised concerns among Western scientists over a lack of safety data, with so...

La Niña conditions were present in August, and have a 75% chance of continuing through the Northern Hemisphere winter of 202021, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday.

The book is filled with searing indictments of Trump. Mattis is quoted criticizing the President both for his chaotic process and ill-advised, go-it-alone policy decisions.

New York City restaurants will be able to resume indoor dining at 25% capacity at the end of the month, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday, relaxing one of last big COVID19 limitations in the nation's most populous city.

New York City restaurants struggling to stay in business after months of closures imposed in the face of the coronavirus pandemic won a longawaited approval on Wednesday to resume limited indoor dining.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled a list of potential nominees including three sitting U.S. senators to fill any future Supreme Court vacancies in a move aimed at bolstering support among conservative voters ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

As the epicentre of the pandemic shifts to India, there is no sign of a peak in the world’s second-most populous nation.

A white lion cub was discovered in the trailer of a van following a highway crash in southwestern Germany, but the 7monthold female is doing just fine, a zoo that took in the animal said Wednesday.

With COVID19 cases in Canada on the rise again and children returning to schools across the country, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday urged people to be careful in order to avoid new major outbreaks.

Police carried out searches on Wednesday at the Moscow office of the Open Russia opposition group and the homes of several activists running in local elections this weekend, prompting allegations of intimidation.

Ethiopia's northern Tigray region on Wednesday went ahead with regional elections in an act of strong defiance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who called the vote illegal but said the government would not respond with force.

Norwegian police have arrested a man sought by French prosecutors on suspicion that he took part in a fatal attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris 38 years ago, the man's lawyer and police said on Wednesday.

Lebanon's Amal movement, a Shi'ite Muslim group allied to Hezbollah, said on Wednesday it would not be swayed by U.S. sanctions imposed on one of its members, saying Washington's move was like targeting the whole nation.

Saudi Arabia told an Arab League meeting on Wednesday it supports all efforts to reach a comprehensive solution to the PalestinianIsraeli conflict.