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President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, are meeting in Cleveland on Tuesday for the first of three debates ahead of the Nov. 3 election, when Trump is seeking a second term in office.

The United Nations says talks between Libyan rivals in Egypt have concluded with preliminary agreements to exchange prisoners and open up air and land transit across the country's divided territory.

The University of North Carolina system reported its first coronavirusrelated student death on Tuesday since several campuses reopened with at least partial inperson learning last month.

A lawyer for former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn told a judge Tuesday that she recently updated President Donald Trump on the case and asked him not to issue a pardon for her client.

Prosecutors in Texas have rejected a drunken driving charge against conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones, who was arrested in Austin earlier this year.

Easing winds gave California firefighters a break Tuesday as they battled a destructive wildfire that was driven by strong winds through wine country north of San Francisco and another rural blaze that killed three people.

France said on Tuesday it would call for talks among the 'Minsk Group' which is led by Russia, France and the United States and mediates between Armenia and Azerbaijan to try to resolve an escalating conflict between the two South Caucasus countries.

A cruise ship carrying about 920 passengers docked at Piraeus port near Athens early on Tuesday and a repeat test for 12 of its crew members was negative for the coronavirus, a Greek health ministry official said.

Armenian and Azeri forces deployed heavy artillery on Tuesday in the latest fighting over the breakaway region of NagornoKarabakh, they both said.

Slovakia's government is banning most public cultural and sports events due to the accelerating spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Igor Matovic said on Monday.

When Oman's ruler of a half century died without an heir apparent, brief fears of turmoil ended with the quick announcement of a new sultan in this nation on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula.

The child died on September 8 following an infection caused by the amoeba Naegleria fowleri, a microscopic organism that breeds in the warm, fresh water of lakes and rivers and of poorly maintained swimming pools.

South Koreas daily coronavirus increase was the lowest in about 50 days Tuesday as new infections trend lower.

A Florida officer and veteran member of a SWAT team was shot multiple times while serving a warrant Monday, but his bulletresistant vest saved his life, officials said.

The only Louisville, Kentucky, police officer charged in connection to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor pleaded not guilty to three counts of wanton endangerment at his arraignment on Monday, the Louisville Courier Journal reported.

After ending a meeting with Madrid regional officials without agreeing on how to tackle a worrying wave of coronavirus infections, Spains health minister has pleaded for the third time in four days for tougher measures in the capital.