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South Korea confirmed its first five omicron cases Wednesday night linked to arrivals from Nigeria, prompting the government to tighten its border controls.

Jonshel Alexander, a onetime child actress who played a supporting role in the 2012 Oscarnominated film Beasts of the Southern Wild, was killed in a weekend shooting in her native Louisiana. She was 22.

Poland's ruling conservative party rejected a legislative proposal that would outlaw abortion as homicide in a parliament debate Wednesday arguing the proposal was extreme and unacceptable and could lead to social unrest.

Iran has started producing enriched uranium with more efficient advanced centrifuges at its Fordow plant dug into a mountain, the U.N. atomic watchdog said on Wednesday, further eroding the 2015 Iran nuclear deal during talks with the West on saving it.

The 45th Ministerial meeting of Group of 77 and China was held virtually on Tuesday.

Figure skating's Grand Prix final was thrown into doubt just nine days ahead of the Osaka event as Japan closed its borders https://www.reuters.com/world/asiapacific/japanpmkishidasaysforeignvisitorsbebarredentrynov3020211129 to all nonresident foreigners...

Leftist Xiomara Castro inched toward victory in Honduras' presidential election on Tuesday as a vote count that has so far given her a commanding lead sluggishly resumed after a 24hour delay that has kept the Central American country in suspense.

The chief of Britain's foreign spy service warned on Tuesday that the West's adversaries such as China and Russia were racing to master artificial intelligence in a way which could revolutionise geopolitics over the next decade.

The Canadian Pacific coast province of British Columbia is extending fuel rationing until Dec. 14 when a major pipeline is back online after a series of devastating storms in the southern part of the province.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a fourstar general to review a 2019 strike in Syria that caused civilian casualties, the Pentagon said on Monday.

Despite being a nation that has long championed gender equality, Sweden has never before had a woman as prime minister.

Before the pandemic, about 300,000 people used to commute across the border from Malaysia every day to the neighbouring city-state, to work in areas ranging from public transport to electronics manufacturing.

Russia's ambassador to the United States said that 27 more Russian diplomats and their families were expelled from the United States and would leave on Jan. 30.

Designer Virgil Abloh, a leading fashion executive hailed as the Karl Lagerfeld of his generation, has died after a private battle with cancer. He was 41.

Israel on Saturday said it would ban the entry of all foreigners into the country, making it the first country to shut its borders completely in response to the potentially more contagious Omicron coronavirus variant, and said it would also reintroduce co...

French farright presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour capped a tough week on Saturday after cameras caught him giving an opponent the middle finger following a tumultuous campaign stop in Marseille.