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Australias hot spot Victoria state on Wednesday extended its state of emergency for another six months as its weekly average of new coronavirus infections dipped.

A second wave of infections in Australia's coronavirus hot spot, the state of Victoria, eased further on Wednesday as authorities look to loosen lockdown restrictions that have shut large swathes of the state's economy.

After accompanying an Israeli delegation to the UAE for historic normalisation talks, White House adviser Jared Kushner set off on a tour of other Gulf capitals on Tuesday, looking for more Arab support.

Pakistan said on Tuesday it has blocked Tinder, Grindr and three other dating apps for not adhering to local laws, its latest move to curb online platforms deemed to be disseminating "immoral content".

U.S. President Donald Trump did not have a stroke and remains healthy, his physician said on Tuesday in response to a new book suggesting Vice President Mike Pence was put on standby to assume presidential powers during a sudden Trump medical visit last y...

A unit of the French Barkhane military force has killed a civilian by accident, the French army said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Khmer Rouges chief jailer, who admitted overseeing the torture and killings of as many as 16,000 Cambodians while running the regimes most notorious prison, has died. Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, was 77 and had been serving a life prison term for wa...

The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a COVID19 vaccine because it does not want to be constrained by multilateral groups like the World Health Organization.

Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell chided some bigcity mayors Tuesday for showing a reluctance to enforce the law" when ongoing protests turn destructive.

Los Angeles sheriff's deputies shot and killed a Black man they stopped for a traffic violation after he ran from them, punched one and then dropped a gun, authorities said.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that he will lift the states ban on visiting nursing homes that has cut off vulnerable seniors from family since midMarch over fears of spreading the new coronavirus.

The Danish government summoned Russia s ambassador on Tuesday after a Russian fighter jet violated the airspace over Denmark's Baltic Sea island of Bornholm last week.

The European Union warned Hungary that it cannot close its borders to all foreigners and allow only its own citizens back in as the Hungarian government introduced those new measures Tuesday in response to what it said was a second wave of coronavirus inf...

The man stood in front of the Christ the Redeemer statue in a hazmat suit, gloves, respirator and goggles. Two soldiers wearing face masks bowed their heads solemnly. Over a dozen more in full-body gear paused from disinfecting the popular tourist site ov...

The head of the Czech Senate declared himself to be Taiwanese in a speech at Taiwan's parliament on Tuesday, channelling the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy's defiance of communism in Berlin in 1963, as China slammed him for crossing a red line.

The man portrayed in the film Hotel Rwanda as saving the lives of more than 1,200 people from genocide was kidnapped while in Dubai, his daughter asserts, while authorities on Tuesday gave no further details behind his arrest on terror charges.