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A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up near a military vehicle carrying a brigadier and two junior officers in a former tribal region in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, wounding all three, officials said.

The U.S. Department of State did not fully evaluate the risk of civilian casualties in Yemen when it pushed through a huge 2019 precisionguided munitions sale to Saudi Arabia, a government watchdog's report said on Tuesday.

For nearly a week, Mona Zahran had to sleep on a couch pulled across her apartment's front door. Beiruts massive explosion knocked her doors off their hinges and shattered her windows, and she feared looters would take advantage of the chaos that has hit...

Mauritian volunteers fished dead eels from oily waters on Tuesday as they tried to clean up damage to the Indian Ocean island's most pristine beaches after a Japanese bulk carrier leaked an estimated 1,000 tonnes of oil.

Singapore started crushing nine tonnes worth of elephant ivory on Tuesday, in what authorities said was the biggest such event globally in recent years and signalled the island nation's fight against illegal trade in wildlife.

Hurricane Elida strengthened a little off Mexico's northwestern coast on Tuesday, but forecasters said it was not expected to pose a threat to land.

New Zealand announced on Tuesday it was shutting down its largest city, Auckland, after four new cases of coronavirus were discovered in the city, the first evidence of domestic transmission after being free of the infection for 102 days.

The blast a week ago that temporarily displaced 100,000 children, according to a UN estimate, was so mighty it had the magnitude of an earthquake.

Iranian authorities have arrested five Iranians on charges of spying for Israel, Britain and Germany, convicting and handing down prison sentences on at least two of them, the judiciary said on Tuesday.

The Philippines on Tuesday reported 2,987 new coronavirus infections, taking its tally of confirmed cases to 139,538, the highest in Southeast Asia.

Britain said on Tuesday it wanted greater flexibility to return illegal immigrants back to France after a surge in the number of people embarking on the perilous journey across the English Channel in the hope of a better life.

The Lithuanian foreign minister says that the leading opposition candidate in Belarus' presidential election has fled her country and is now safe in Lithuania.

Belarusian opposition politician Svetlana Tikhanouskaya has travelled to Lithuania from Belarus amid the protests and is safe, Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said in a Twitter post on Tuesday.

South Korea's Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co Ltd said on Tuesday it received Indian regulatory approval to test its antiparasitic niclosamide drug to treat COVID19 patients in an early stage human trial.

Seattle's council on Monday approved a reduction of the budget of the city's police department of less than 1% after months of protests demanding that it defund the force, but it signaled deeper cuts might be on the way.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has interviewed the finalists to be his running mate and his campaign is readying to announce his choice as soon as this week, a person familiar with the process told Reuters.