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Three men were killed in a shooting in a village in northern Lebanon overnight, security sources and the National News Agency said on Saturday. 

The Czech authorities recorded 506 new coronavirus cases on Friday, the highest number of new infections in one day since the outbreak began there.

Rebel soldiers seized Keita and other leaders after a mutiny on Tuesday at Kati, a military base outside the capital, dealing another deep blow to a country already struggling with an Islamist insurgency and wide public discontent over its government.

The Trump administration on Friday dismissed near universal opposition to its demand to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran, declaring that a 30day countdown for the snapback of penalties eased under the 2015 nuclear deal had begun.

A currency exchange website appeared Friday to have been blocked in Venezuela as the online platform prepared to launch a U.S.backed plan to provide assistance to underpaid health workers battling the coronavirus in the South American country.

Fifteen Minnesota residents have contracted the coronavirus after being exposed during the 10day Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota, Minnesota health officials said Friday, warning that they expect the number to grow.

The coronavirus crisis in Brazil appears to be leveling off, if not easing, the World Health Organization said on Friday, offering a chink of light for the world's second biggest COVID19 hot spot.

A $2 billion plan to build an elevated train link connecting New York City with LaGuardia Airport through an intermediate stop is the best alternative to improve traffic delays, federal regulators said in a preliminary environmental impact statement relea...

India has objected to the CPEC as it is being laid through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

A Georgia police department is investigating an arrest captured on video showing a white officer using a stun gun on a Black woman.

"We expect the Belarusian authorities to stop the criminal case and instead to engage in a dialogue in view of moving towards a peaceful way out of the current crisis," Nabila Massrali, an EU spokeswoman for foreign policy and security affairs, said in a...

The research suggests that large-scale manual contact tracing alongside other public health control measures — such as physical distancing and closure of indoor spaces such as pubs — is likely to be required in conjunction with automated approaches.

Belarus' authorities on Friday detained a leader of striking factory workers, raising pressure on the opposition amid massive protests against official election results that extended the 26year rule of the country's authoritarian president.

Joe Biden accepted the Democratic presidential nomination with a vow to be a unifying ally of the light who would move an America in crisis past the chaos of President Donald Trumps tenure.

Doctors have said his condition is still too unstable for him to travel, but Navalny's allies have accused authorities of trying to thwart his medical evacuation, a decision they say placed his life in mortal danger.

Some recent standouts in University of South Carolina athletics are asking the school to change the name of its showpiece fitness center, arguing that the late U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond shouldn't be honored in such a way due to the segregationist views he...