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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka confirmed more than 300 garment factory workers have been infected with the coronavirus, after reporting its first community infection in two months.

Two conservative justices mounted a fresh attack on Monday on the landmark 2015 ruling that legalized gay marriage nationwide even as the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed a bid by a former Kentucky official to avoid lawsuits over her refusal to grant marriage...

A combination of antiviral drugs usually used to treat HIV has no beneficial effect in patients hospitalised with COVID19, a peerreviewed study said on Monday, confirming the initial results of a largescale randomised trial of the drug.

A North Carolina city council will consider a resolution and apology on Tuesday for the shooting deaths of five demonstrators at a rally against the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party nearly 41 years ago.

A Pakistani Muslim professor shot and killed another professor from the Ahmadi minority in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday, a day after the two allegedly had a heated discussion over a religious matter, police said.

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The Lahore police registered a FIR on the complaint of a person on Monday, citing Sharif's two recent speeches made through a video link from London in which the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supremo made blistering remarks targeting the powerful Pakistan...

Ethnic Armenian officials in the enclave of NagornoKarabakh said on Monday that 21 more servicemen had been killed in fierce fighting with Azerbaijan, bringing its total military death toll to 223 since war broke out eight days ago.

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani is travelling to Qatar for a bilateral meeting with Qatari leaders but will not hold a meeting with Taliban officials even as peace talks are underway in the country's capital city Doha, officials said on Monday.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, to contain the spread of COVID19 in what was once the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, said on Sunday he is moving to shut nonessential businesses as well as schools in nine neighborhoods identified as coronavirus cluste...

A new threetier lockdown is being planned for England, The Guardian reported, citing leaked government documents which revealed tougher measures that could be implemented locally or nationally if the government fails to get COVID19 cases under control.

President Donald Trumps longhidden tax returns leaked out. His first debate performance ignited a firestorm over white supremacy. He was hospitalized for COVID19 after months of playing down the threat of a pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 Ameri...

Former American professional cyclist Lance Armstrong led a bike tour around Beirut on Sunday to raise awareness and funds for organizations helping residents affected by a massive explosion that struck the Lebanese capital in August.

Voters in New Caledonia turned out in large numbers Sunday to decide whether the archipelago in the South Pacific should get independence from France and break ties that were first established in the mid19th century.

Don Ryce, a labor lawyer who with his wife became a leading advocate for missing children after their 9yearold son was abducted, raped and murdered in South Florida, died Saturday. He was 76.

Police say experts have deactivated a suspicious object found in an outofservice train in the German city of Cologne.