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Whether President Donald Trump has the constitutional authority to extend federal unemployment benefits by executive order remains unclear. Equally up in the air is whether states, which are necessary partners in Trump's plan to bypass Congress, will sign...

Belarus voted in an election on Sunday pitting President Alexander Lukashenko against a former teacher who emerged from obscurity to lead the biggest challenge in years against the man who has ruled the country for a quarter of century.

Thousands of students, environmental activists and residents of Mauritius were working around the clock Sunday, trying to reduce the damage to the Indian Ocean island from an oil spill after a tanker ran aground on a coral reef.

Afghanistan agreed on Sunday to release 400 "hardcore" Taliban prisoners, paving the way for the beginning of peace talks aimed at ending more than 19 years of war.

French President Emmanuel Macron will host U.S. President Donald Trump and other political leaders on Sunday for a U.N.endorsed donors' conference by video to raise emergency relief for Lebanon following this week's massive explosion in Beirut.

New Zealand's successful fight against COVID-19 has made the Pacific island nation of 5 million one of the safest places in the world right now.

Australia’s secondmost populous state, Victoria, reported its deadliest day of the COVID19 outbreak on Sunday, with 17 people dying in the past 24 hours, although new infections showed signs of easing.

Women in Italy can now use the abortion pill on an outpatient basis rather than be hospitalized to terminate a pregnancy.

Brace yourself for whats expected to be the first U.S. presidential election conducted mostly by mail. Its likely to be a wild ride.

Anxious residents of the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius stuffed fabric sacks with sugar cane leaves Saturday to create makeshift oil spill barriers as tons of fuel leaking from a grounded ship put endangered wildlife in further peril.

More than 1,000 antigovernment demonstrators rallied in Bangkok's commercial district on Saturday after two protest leaders were arrested and held overnight.

Hundreds of demonstrators rallied in Thailand on Saturday, after police arrested two leading antigovernment protest leaders in an apparent attempt to stifle growing political unrest.

A close twin sister, now separated forever. An attentive and doting husband who sacrificed for his family and promised his wife the moon. A student financing his education by working double shifts at Beirut's busy port.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Saturday launched her reelection campaign promising a "laserlike" focus on boosting jobs and economic growth hit by the COVID19 pandemic.

A federal appeals court decided Friday to reconsider claims that Florida federal prosecutors violated the rights of Jeffrey Epstein's sex abuse victims by not informing them about a secret plea deal.

WeChat, owned by Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd , is popular among Chinese students, expats and some Americans who have personal or business relationships in China.