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German Chancellor Angela Merkel talked on the phone with Belarusian opposition leader in exile Svetlana Tikhanouskaya about the political crisis in Belarus and the "difficult situation" at the border with the European Union, a government spokesperson said...

The conservative-led government imposed a lockdown on the unvaccinated last week but daily infections kept extending far above the previous peak.

Austria powered down public life on Monday as its fourth national COVID19 lockdown began, making it the first western European country to reimpose the drastic and unpopular measure this autumn in the face of surging coronavirus infections.

France survived a brief yet brutal meltdown to claim their first victory against New Zealand since their 2009 win in Dunedin as they beat the All Blacks 4025 in their last autumn test with some freeflowing rugby on Saturday.

Three protesters were injured by French soldiers in the town of Kaya in Burkina Faso Saturday during the third day of a civilian blockade against a French military convoy en route to Niger, several protesters said.

Donald Trump's first postWhite House book will be, like so much else about him, a departure from other former presidents.

The Supreme Court could rule as soon as Monday on Texas' ban on abortion after roughly six weeks.

A federal judge ordered Kansas on Friday to suspend a new law prohibiting outofstate groups from mailing advance ballot applications, siding with two national nonprofit groups that contend it disenfranchises voters.

Campaigning closed on Thursday for Venezuela's regional election with opposition parties returning to the polls https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/withcatchyjinglescautiousoptimismvenezuelaoppositionreturnsballot20211117 for the first time in four ye...

Texas is still at risk of power blackouts this winter in the event of extreme weather like the catastrophic February storm that buckled the state's electrical grid and left millions of people without heat for days, the nation's grid monitor said Thursday.

California on Thursday dedicated a new $419 million research facility that will allow state air quality regulators expand emissions testing for heavy duty vehicles like trucks, buses and bulldozers.

Migrants whose children were taken from them under former President Donald Trump's zerotolerance border policy have not reached a settlement agreement with the U.S. government, a lawyer for the families said Thursday as he and other advocates pushed back...

A man was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday for setting fire to a car last year in what authorities said was an attempt to intimidate a potential witness in R. Kelly's sex trafficking trial.

At least 144 civilians have been killed in eastern Congo this month, lawmakers from the conflicthit provinces said on Wednesday, refusing to back extending a state of siege https://www.reuters.com/article/congosecurityidAFL8N2MO00E they said was failing i...

President Joe Biden announced a deal last month to establish aroundtheclock operations at the Port of Los Angeles, the nation's largest, to break an unprecedented container ship traffic jam blamed for driving up consumer prices.

China and the United States will ease restrictions on access for journalists from each other's countries, Chinese state media and the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday.