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Ten days after the wedding, two dozen people associated with the wedding had tested positive for Covid-19 and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Maine opened an investigation.

South Africa should know its true toll from the coronavirus pandemic within a few weeks, the governments chief medical adviser says, as the country prepares to almost fully reopen its economy after bringing the first surge in cases under control.

China began combat drills near the Taiwan Strait on Friday, the same day a senior U.S. official began highlevel meetings in Taipei, as tensions rose and Beijing denounced tightening ties between Chineseclaimed Taiwan and the United States.

Vietnam's weather agency said on Friday tropical storm Noul was weakening as it approached land, though authorities warned the storm could still dump heavy rains triggering floods and landslides in central areas of the country.

A former White House aide who helped coordinate the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic sharply criticized President Donald Trump in a video released on Thursday and said she planned to vote for Democrat Joe Biden.

Newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will work to get his flagship new digital technology agency running by autumn 2021, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday, a sign the project is among the top priorities in his reform agenda.

U.S. President Donald Trump will not travel to New York on Tuesday for his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, but will deliver the address from the White House, his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, said on Thursday.

A man accused of shooting a 700pound black bear on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota and removing its head pleaded guilty Thursday, although his lawyer alleges that only half of the federal government's story is accurate.

Federal prosecutors brought new wire fraud charges Thursday against an associate of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani who was involved in attempts to get Ukrainian officials to investigate the son of U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

A U.S. judge in Philadelphia has dismissed a lawsuit filed over the 2017 fire at Londons Grenfell Tower that killed 72 people, concluding the case should be litigated there.

Jerry Harris, the star of the Netflix documentary series Cheer, was arrested Thursday on felony charges of production of child pornography, three days after twin boys filed a lawsuit alleging he sent them sexually explicit photos of himself and cornered o...

The president has in recent months assailed the voting process without evidence, saying it could result in widespread fraud, although millions of Americans, including much of the military, have cast absentee ballots by mail for years without such problems...

Mexicos president vowed Thursday to repay the country's water debt to the United States, even if it means asking farmers in Mexican states along the U.S. border to pitch in.

More than 70 migrants on a rescue ship awaiting permission to dock in southern Italy jumped into the sea in frustration Thursday and were picked up by Italian authorities off Palermo, a Spanish humanitarian group said.

U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his unfounded attacks on mailin voting on Thursday, suggesting the result of the 2020 presidential race could never be accurately determined in a Twitter post that would undermine the legitimacy of any winner.

Both sides on ethnically divided Cyprus on Thursday welcomed the United Nation chiefs expressed intention to soon start thawing out a frozen peace process, but its still unclear whether that effort could lead to fullfledged reunification talks.