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U.S. health officials have sparked a wave of confusion after posting guidelines that coronavirus testing is not necessary for people who have been in close contact with infected people.

The United States will assist normalisation between Bahrain and Israel if needed, a senior U.S. State Department official said during a visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Bahrain on Wednesday.

Russia is preparing to approve a second vaccine against COVID19 in late September or early October, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova said on Wednesday.

Ukraine on Wednesday imposed a temporary ban on most foreigners from entering the country until Sept. 28 and extended lockdown measures until the end of October to contain a recent spike in coronavirus cases.

Belarus's most celebrated writer called on Russia on Wednesday to help persuade President Alexander Lukashenko to negotiate, as she arrived for questioning in a criminal case accusing an opposition body of an illegal attempt to seize power.

A government healthcare reform plan in South Korea has sparked opposition from doctors, prompting strikes, threats of legal action and public debate even as it grapples with one of its biggest outbreaks of novel coronavirus infections.

Public toilets are usually a welcome sight to anyone who has had too much to drink, but some might do a double take when they come across the ones that have just opened in a Tokyo park.

Workers in bright yellow vests stand on the dock in Greeces main port of Piraeus, greeting hundreds of masked ferry passengers with fliers and the occasional temperature check.

Three people were shot, one of them fatally, as gunfire broke out on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, early Wednesday on the third straight day of unrest sparked by the police shooting of a Black man, the New York Times reported, citing law enforcement.

Winter is ending in the Southern Hemisphere and country after country South Africa, Australia, Argentina had a surprise: Their steps against COVID19 also apparently blocked the flu.

Hundreds of flights were canceled in South Korea while North Koreas leader expressed concern about a potential loss of lives and crops as the countries braced for a fastapproaching typhoon forecast as one of the strongest to hit their peninsula this year.

The South Asians for Biden in a tweet, which has now been deleted, alleged that Haley had to change her name from Namrata to Nikki mainly because the US is racist. “If America isn't racist, why did Namarata Haley feel compelled to change her name to Nikki...

China reported 15 new COVID19 cases in the mainland as of Aug. 25, compared with 14 cases reported a day earlier, the country's health authority reported on Wednesday.

A Trump administration crackdown on nonessential travel coming from Mexico amid the coronavirus pandemic has created massive bottlenecks at the border, with drivers reporting waits of up to 10 hours to get into the U.S.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services canceled more than 13,000 employee furloughs Tuesday, averting a catastrophe for the cashstrapped agency that oversees the nation's legal immigration system.

An attorney for the family of a young woman found breathing at a Detroit funeral home after being declared dead said Tuesday the 20-year-old was in a body bag for some two hours before it was opened and she was discovered to be alive, with her eyes open.