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France is stepping up the pressure on Belarus longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko, with President Emmanuel Macron telling a prominent French weekly that Lukashenko must go.

The initiative, backed by the populist right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) -- Switzerland's largest party -- has lost public support in recent polls.

Armenia declared martial law and mobilised its male population on Sunday after clashes with Azerbaijan over the breakaway NagornoKarabakh region in which sources on both sides reported fatalities.

A police officer was hurt in a shooting at a Los Angeles police station late Saturday, and a suspect is in custody, police said.

The Republican National Committee is putting Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation fight front and center with voters just weeks before Election Day.

The government's technical-scientific committee (CTS) said on Saturday that such a move would be premature due to the COVID-19 situation.

More than 1,000 New Yorkers tested positive for COVID19 in a single day Friday, marking the first time since June 5 the state has seen a daily number that high.

An international organization that is studying flooding in Lake Champlain in Vermont and upstate New York and along the Richelieu River that drains the lake into Quebec will be holding public hearings on their work.

Rajapaksa recalled that India had assisted Sri Lanka in combating COVID-19 as the island nation had received praise from the WHO for curbing the pandemic.

The Republicanled Senate is expected to move quickly toward a confirmation vote for President Donald Trump's nominee to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg once he announces his choice on Saturday.

Thousands of supporters of the rightwing Proud Boys group were expected in Portland, Oregon on Saturday as police prepared for clashes in a city that has become the epicenter of sometimes deadly political violence in the run up to the Nov. 3 election.

The tanker was transporting crude oil from the port of Mina Al Ahmadi in Kuwait to the Indian port of Paradip, where the state-owned Indian Oil Corp. has a refinery. The initial fire killed one Filipino crew member and injured another, while 21 other crew...

The dissemination of misleading videos about Biden by the Trump campaign in an effort to make the Democratic presidential nominee seem confused or senile has happened repeatedly.

An armed militia killed at least 15 people in a predawn attack on Friday in western Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said in a statement late on Friday, the latest security challenge for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government.

A soldier shot and killed a transgender woman at a military checkpoint in southwestern Colombia, prompting outrage from activists and condemnation from politicians.

A former college entrance exam administrator pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that she participated in a vast U.S. fraud and bribery scheme that has resulted in charges against dozens of wealthy parents.