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A number of countries around the world have now decided to ban or restrict travel to and from these six southern Africa nations.

Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday the group had spent more than $10 million on free and subsidized fuel sourced from Iran for the Lebanese people since September.

Canada announced Friday it is banning the entry of foreign nationals who have traveled through southern Africa in the last 14 days after discovery of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus that has stoked world fears and triggered widespread travel ba...

Germany's Greens on Thursday nominated coleader Annalena Baerbock to become foreign minister in the next government and confirmed they would propose Robert Habeck as vicechancellor and economy minister with responsibility for climate policy.

A gas leak in a Siberian coal mine killed at least 52 people on Thursday, Russian news agencies said, including six rescuers who were sent down to try to bring out dozens of men in what was one of Russia's worst mining disasters since Soviet times.

Brothers Elias and Mikael Ymer comfortably won their singles rubbers against Canada to get seventimes champions Sweden off to a winning start in the Davis Cup Finals in Madrid on Thursday.

France reported 32,591 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, while the number of COVID patients in intensive care approached the 1,500 thresholds.

Biden said Young and Coloretti are two of the most experienced, qualified people to lead the budget office and called on the Senate to vote quickly to confirm them.

Romanian prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into an organised crime group that stole roughly $2 million worth of diesel and other fuel from a U.S. military base in the eastern county of Constanta, police said in a statement on Wednesday.

Thirtyone people, including five women and a little girl, died on Wednesday after their rubber boat capsized while crossing the English Channel from France to Britain, in the worst disaster on record involving migrants in the waters separating the countri...

Metalworkers unions in the southern Spanish city of Cadiz reached a preliminary pay deal with employers late on Wednesday, ending a nineday strike involving some 20,000 workers that produced tense confrontations with police.

A Salvadoran immigrant who admitted killing four northern Nevadans in 2019 has entered guilty pleas to all remaining related charges in Carson City, the final piece of a plea deal that will spare him from the death penalty and send him to prison for life...

Chile had accepted same-sex civil unions in 2015, but that measure did not include a provision for adoption. Some same-sex couples had annulled their civil unions and adopted children as single parents to get around that problem.

Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed Illinois' new congressional district map into law Tuesday, formalizing political boundaries drawn to help Democrats in next year's midterm elections, when Republicans are well positioned to win control of the U.S. Hous...

Nearly 76 million of Mexico’s 126 million inhabitants have had at least one vaccine dose, according to government data.

By picking Jerome Powell to stay on as chair of the powerful Federal Reserve, President Joe Biden is trying to navigate hazardous crosscurrents between economic and political forces.