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Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny made his first public appearance on Wednesday after being discharged from a Berlin hospital where Germany said he was being treated for poisoning by a potentially deadly nerve agent.

Russian paratroopers parachuted into Belarus on Wednesday as part of joint military drills, the Ministry of Defence said.

Conceding after years of chaos and dispute that its costly asylum system is broken, the European Union announced Wednesday a major overhaul of the rules in the hope that more countries will finally be prepared to share responsibility for people landing on...

The German government is setting up a 1.2 millioneuro ($1.4 million) fund to help survivors of a deadly farright attack on Munich's Oktoberfest in 1980, in what the justice minister described Wednesday as a belated but important signal of solidarity.

The first known direct commercial flight between Israel and Bahrain landed Wednesday in the island kingdom, just a week after it signed a deal alongside the United Arab Emirates to normalize relations.

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Another 200 long-finned pilot whales were discovered Wednesday in Macquarie Harbour, on the rugged and sparsely populated west coast of Tasmania, taking to 470 the number that have become stuck this week.

At a campaign rally in Ohio on Monday, Donald Trump said coronavirus 'affects elderly people, elderly people with heart problems and other problems. If they have other problems, that's what it really affects. That's it.'

The United States and the United Arab Emirates hope to have an initial agreement on the sale of F35 stealth fighter jets to the Gulf state in place by December, as the Trump administration studies how to structure a deal without running afoul of Israel.

A new contingent of U.S. troops and armour will be deployed in Lithuania in November but their presence is not linked to the situation in neighbouring Belarus, Lithuania's defence minister said on Tuesday.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court for fast action on its effort, blocked by a lower court, to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to determine how many congressional seats each state gets.

According to a rolling tally by Johns Hopkins University, 200,005 Americans have died and 6.86 million have been confirmed infected by the novel coronavirus.

An arms depot of the Iranbacked Shi'ite Muslim group Hezbollah exploded in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, a security source said, injuring several people and sending a new shockwave across a nation grappling with its deepest crisis in three decades.

A Pakistani court on Tuesday sentenced two political party operatives to death for starting a fire at a garments factory in Karachi in 2012 that killed 260 people after the factory owners refused to pay bribes.

For the first time in months, virus infections and deaths in French nursing homes are on the rise again.

Italys centerright parties made inroads in bastions of the left, but final results from regional elections Tuesday showed the leftofcenter Democratic Party held on, giving stability for now to its partnership with the 5Star Movement in the ruling national...