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A debut novel about four Nigerian siblings and a family torn apart has won a $50,000 award. Tola Rotimi Abraham's Black Sunday is this year's winner of the Kirkus Prize for fiction.

The counting isn't over yet, but Democrats in Congress are already asking what went wrong. That's because it's looking like their expected gains in the House aren't happening. And while Democrats are likely to retain control for two more years, their curr...

Paris will ban delivery and takeaway services for prepared food and alcohol between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. from Friday to limit the spread of the coronavirus, which has infected a record number of 58,046 people nationally over 24 hours on Thursday.

The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate at a record low near zero Thursday and signaled its readiness to do more if needed to support an economy under threat from a worsening coronavirus pandemic.

India, a victim of state-sponsored cross-border terrorism, has been at the forefront in highlighting the serious threat to international peace and security emanating from acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by terrorist groups.

Two conservative counties voted in favor of a non-binding measure to "Move Oregon's Borders" during Tuesday's polls, which also saw their northwestern US state predictably vote for Joe Biden in the race for president.

WhatsApp has received approval to roll out its payments service in India starting with 20 million users, the country's flagship payments processor said on Thursday, giving the Facebookowned app an entry into a crowded digital payments space.

The European Union agreed Thursday on a set of rules for allowing nonmember countries like the United States or Britain to take part in dozens of potentially lucrative defense projects.

However, the education department highlighted that the situation is not alarming and that all necessary precautions are being followed.

It added that an offence under the SC/ST Act would be made out when a member of the vulnerable section of the Society is subjected to "indignities, humiliations and harassment" in any place within public view.

Bollywood superstar Hrithik Roshan is reportedly in talks to play an important character in a multi-million dollar Hollywood spy thriller.

The action came after the district collectorate staff had filed a complaint of drunk and indecent behaviour against CJM Neeraj Kumar.

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German chemicals maker BASF said on Thursday that its plans to build a petrochemicals complex in India worth up to $4 billion with partners had been put on hold due to the economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic.

Europe must rethink its openborder Schengen area, including a more robust protection of the zone's external frontiers, President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, after a spate of Islamist attacks in France and Austria.

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