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Poland reported a record high 548 new coronavirusrelated deaths on Saturday, the health ministry said, taking the country's total above 10,000.

The hint of doubt in Trump's mind came despite him continuing to push a conspiracy theory that mass fraud -- for which no evidence exists -- robbed him of victory in the November 3 election.

Al Qaeda’s secondincommand, accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the United States, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing int...

With his longshot efforts to hang on for a second term dwindling, U.S. President Donald Trump is discussing with advisers several media ventures and appearances that would keep him in the spotlight ahead of a potential 2024 White House bid.

With cities and states across the United States reimposing restrictions this week to tame alarming surges in coronavirus infections and hospitalizations, a senior adviser to Presidentelect Joe Biden said on Friday there were no plans for nationwide lockdo...

The Western Sahara's Polisario Front group said on Friday that Morocco had broken their ceasefire and "ignited war", but Rabat denied there had been any armed clashes between the sides and said the threedecade truce remained in place.

Five years after Islamist killers struck in postwar France's deadliest attack, its Prime Minister on Friday paid tribute to the victims, with the country again on high alert following a new wave of ideologically driven violence.

German government officials dampened hopes on Friday that an economically painful partial lockdown would be lifted promptly at the end of November, since infection rates were continuing to surge.

The new coronavirus has been found in mink at two farms in northern Greece, an agriculture ministry official said on Friday.

The head of the GAVI vaccine alliance expects to hold talks with the incoming team of U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden about collaborating with the COVAX global facility, which has been set up to provide COVID19 vaccines to poorer countries.

A consortium of Chinese companies signed a contract with the government of Brazil's Bahia state on Thursday to build a 12kilometer (7.5mile) bridge across the entrance of the bay opposite the city of Salvador.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told an allstaff meeting on Thursday that former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon had not violated enough of the company's policies to justify his suspension when he urged beheading two senior U.S. officials,...

Fourteen soldiers in Burkina Faso were killed on Wednesday in an ambush by suspected Islamist militants, the government said, close to a week before a presidential election.

English COVID19 infections rose sharply in October with double the number of cases reported by the end of the month compared to the beginning ahead of the reintroduction of a national lockdown, a large study said on Thursday.

A helicopter with a U.S.led Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in the Egyptian Sinai has crashed, killing seven members of the peacekeeper force, an Israeli source said on Thursday.