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Australia will unveil a A$747 million ($580 million) defence package on Wednesday to upgrade four military bases in its north and expand war games with the United States, The Australian newspaper reported.

The British billionaire James Dyson denied acting inappropriately for seeking tax assurances from Prime Minister Boris Johnson to work on a project to manufacture ventilators in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

Scientists said on Monday they have detected a large gap, equal to about what the United States emits annually, between the amount of climatewarming emissions that countries report and the amount that independent models say reaches the atmosphere.

Organizers of the recall effort against California Gov. Gavin Newsom collected enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot.

Germany and China agreed Monday to step up their cooperation in combating climate change in an effort to help keep global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) by the year 2100.

The speech will be co-hosted by U.N. permanent representatives of Argentina, Japan, Norway and South Africa.

Palestinians gathered in celebration outside Jerusalem's Damascus Gate on Sunday night after barriers put up by Israeli police were removed, allowing them access to a square that became the focus of nightly Ramadan clashes.

A man charged in the shooting death of a 7yearold girl outside a Chicago McDonald's drove up behind a car driven by the girl's father while two other men got out and opened fire, prosecutors said Sunday.

The clashes followed the start of Ramadan on April 13 and laid bare simmering tensions in the holy city.

The pandemic is not receding and the officials have introduced tough restrictions like closure of markets after 6 pm to bring it under control. Information minister Fawad Chaudhry said on Saturday that the government would wait for a week and if the situa...

Australians and New Zealanders paid tribute to their war dead Sunday as both nations prepared to withdraw from their longest war in Afghanistan.

Armenian Americans welcomed the news Saturday that President Joe Biden formally declared the systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of their ancestors by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 1900s was genocide, saying the recognition by...

As hundreds of military personnel took part in a frantic hunt for the KRI Nanggala 402

During his presidency, Trump positioned himself as a lead negotiator in peace talks on the Korean peninsula.

A 25yearold Chicago man charged with attempted murder in a roadrage shooting that left a toddler with a critical head injury opened fire on the vehicle even after the driver of the other vehicle told him the boy was inside, a Cook County prosecutor said F...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants to ban new fracking permits in the state by 2024 and halt all oil extraction by 2045.