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Poland reported 1,584 new coronavirus cases on Saturday, close to Friday's record high, the health ministry said, taking the country closer to reimposing restrictions.

In a handful of spots around Reno where homeless folks gather the old bus station, City Plaza, David Taylor Park, along the Truckee River free burritos are creating community.

MELBOURNE, Australia The health minister in Australias Victoria state has resigned in the fallout from an inquiry into why security guards were used instead of police or the military at quarantine hotels. Lapses in security at the hotels were given as th...

Russia and China blocked the official release of a report by U.N. experts on Libya that accused its warring parties and their international backers including Russia of violating a U.N. arms embargo on the conflictwracked country, U.N. diplomats said Fri...

Nigeria's airports could shut down on Monday as four key unions said they would join an indefinite nationwide strike to protest an increase in power and petrol prices.

Joe Biden's fundraising advantage appears to be translating into an edge on the airwaves, as the Democratic presidential nominee is swamping President Donald Trump with a blitz of television advertising less than 40 days until Election Day.

President Donald Trump on Saturday will name conservative federal appeals court judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, two sources said on Friday.

Mainland China reported 15 new COVID19 cases on Sept. 25, compared with eight cases announced a day earlier, the national health authority said on Saturday.

A Minnesota congresswoman whose race has been roiled by the death of a thirdparty candidate urged supporters Friday to vote for her and the rest of the Democratic ticket on the November ballot, even though votes in her race won't count under current circu...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga told the United Nations General Assembly on Friday Japan is determined to host the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 after the games were postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A Kentucky lawmaker who spent a night in jail after her arrest during protests demanding justice for Breonna Taylor says she'll redouble her push for criminal justice reforms.

TikTok executives told a Senate committee on Friday that they lobbied Australian lawmakers but did not engage with investigators before the government concluded that the videosharing app did not pose a security threat.

Britains Queen Elizabeth II and her family are facing a 35 million pound ($45 million) hit from the coronavirus pandemic, partly due to a shortage of tourists, the monarchs moneymanager said Friday.

The Cape Elizabeth School Department has agreed to remove any record of discipline against a student who posted a note about sexual assault in a bathroom last year, ending an almost yearlong lawsuit.

Japanese researchers have developed a blood test they say appears to serve as an early warning system for serious cases of COVID19, and deployed 500 prototype machines to trial its effectiveness nationwide.

North Korea expressed regret on Friday for having shot dead a South Korean man to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the South's national security adviser said, amid growing public and political outrage.