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Coronavirus infections are surging anew in the northern Italian region where the pandemic first took hold in Europe, putting pressure again on hospitals and health care workers.

An opposition figure says heavily armed police have besieged the campaign headquarters of Bobi Wine, a pop star and politician who is seeking Uganda's presidency in elections set for 2021, an opposition figure said.

The Vaticans swirling corruption investigation has taken a mysterious new twist with the arrest on an international warrant of a Sardinian woman said to be close to one of the Holy Sees most powerful cardinals before his downfall.

According to Real Clear Politics, which tracks major opinion polls, Biden is leading the state by 3.7 percentage points. However, Trump has been attracting thousands of people to his election rallies in Florida, despite coronavirus social distancing measu...

The Department of Homeland Security illegally ejected over 800,000 New Yorkers from the trusted traveler security programs that let vetted travelers avoid long security lines at airports, and any lingering effects after the programs were restored must be...

The new mayor of an Alabama town faces a couple of unusual challenges: Namely, going to class and doing his homework.

With Election Day just three weeks away, President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden concentrated Tuesday on battleground states both see as critical to clinching an Electoral College victory, tailoring their travel to best motivate voters...

Saudi Arabia is presiding over a virtual global interfaith forum that began on Tuesday, with participation from Muslim clerics, Jewish rabbis, Christian priests and others religious figures.

The suspect, Abid Malhi, was arrested late on Monday, ending a month-long manhunt. He was arraigned in court in the eastern city of Lahore on Tuesday and ordered jailed for two weeks pending further police investigate.

Taiwan on Tuesday dismissed new spying allegations by China as a further attempt to smear the government of the selfgoverning island democracy that Beijing claims as its own territory.

During a meeting in Luxembourg, envoys for the 27 member states agreed on a common approach to travel restrictions and testing to help citizens and workers get more clarity on how they can transit across the continent.

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett will face senators' questions over her approach to health care, legal precedent and even the presidential election during a second day of confirmation hearings on track to lock in a conservative court majority for y...

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was to meet the nation's king Tuesday in a bid to form a new government after claiming he had secured a majority in Parliament.

Belarus police will now be permitted to use combat weapons in the streets if needed, the Interior Ministry said on Monday, as security forces again clashed with protesters who want President Alexander Lukashenko to quit after a contested Aug. 9 election.

Cole Evan White joined torch-carrying white supremacists on a march through the University of Virginias campus and attacked anti-racism protesters the next day. Within a matter of days, he enrolled at a university in California.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo observed Columbus Day on Monday by dedicating a statue of the ItalianAmerican saint known as Mother Cabrini in lower Manhattan.