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Two authoritative religious bodies on Thursday called on Christians to band together to fight sins laid bare or aggravated by the pandemic, including racism and economic injustice.

Barcelona's city council on Thursday voted to strip former Spanish King Juan Carlos of all official awards he received from the city, including its highest honour, over allegations of corruption.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's cabinet chief has been quarantined until he tests negative for the coronavirus, after attending a private event last Saturday where a participant tested positive, Orban's office said.

The U.N. envoy for Syria says talks between government, opposition and civil society delegations will resume Thursday after a threeday pause caused by positive cases of coronavirus among four participants.

British police said on Thursday they had arrested a man on suspicion of war crimes relating to conflicts in Liberia between 1989 and 2003.

A judge in Washington is halting for now the federal government's planned Friday execution of a man who kidnapped, raped and killed a 10yearold Kansas girl, saying the law requires the government to get a prescription for the drug it plans to use.

No nation is too small or too distant from Washington, it seems, to be excluded from the Trump administrations campaign to counter Chinas efforts to supplant America as the dominant Pacific power.

A proposed Australian law that would give the federal government powers to cancel any agreements local authorities and public institutions make or have made with foreign governments is not aimed at China, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Thursday.

A United States Navy sailor is under investigation for possible arson aboard a warship that caught fire last month and injured dozens of people, a U.S. defense official told Reuters on Wednesday.

Australia's secondmost populous state of Victoria on Thursday reported 23 deaths from the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours and 113 new cases, its lowest daily rise in nearly two months.

The Kansas Democratic Party on Wednesday declared that the 19yearold nominee for a state House seat is unfit for office because of alarming behavior that includes admitting to circulating revenge porn, and he said his online fundraising account has been d...

Mexicos old roughandtumble brand of capitalism made a comeback Wednesday, as two corporate groups engaged in a public dispute over control of one of Mexicos largest radio station chains.

U.S. troops in Syria were wounded this week when a Russian military patrol slammed into their vehicle, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, as Washington condemned the incident as a violation of safety protocols agreed with Moscow.

Kamala Harris is the first woman of colour and first American of Indian descent to have been nominated by a major political party as a vice presidential candidate.

Some 400 men and women spaced themselves across a sprawling worship hall, praying through face masks with arms raised for the health of friends and family suffering from the novel coronavirus.

A small number of U.S. troops were injured during an interaction with Russian forces in Syria, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday.