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Officials in Kenya say three nonMuslim bus passengers were abducted by suspected Islamic extremists in Kenya's northern Mandera county that borders Somalia.

Yemens embattled and exiled president on Thursday urged his governments rival, the Iranbacked Houthi rebels, to stop impeding the flow of urgently needed humanitarian aid.

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Mounting evidence suggests that at least one group of organisms might nosh on nutrient-rich viruses: protists, microscopic and often single-celled organisms that scientists have struggled to place on the tree of life.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella, responding to comments from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the spread of coronavirus, said on Thursday that Italy loved freedom, but was also serious.

Thai lawmakers met Thursday to vote on six proposed amendments to the country's militarybacked constitution, as protesters pushing for charter reform gathered outside the Parliament building.

Hong Kong prodemocracy activist Joshua Wong said he was arrested again Thursday for allegedly participating in an unauthorized assembly last October.

Trump has repeatedly called coranavirus as "China virus" and blamed Beijing for mishandling the outbreak. China, however, has denied the accusation.

In Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, rights activist Maryam Durani has found a fresh outlet for her decades of advocacy a new fitness centre for women.

The lawyer for the first Black inmate scheduled to die this year as part of the Trump administration's resumption of federal executions says race played a central role in landing her client on death row for slaying a young white Iowa couple and burning th...

President Donald Trump marveled at a rally this week about how important Supreme Court nominations are to voters.

Puerto Rico announced Wednesday that it became the first U.S. territory outside the mainland to obtain federal permission to independently evaluate and approve new COVID19 diagnostic tests that are urgently needed.

The Walt Disney Co. has further postponed its next megamovies from Marvel, including Black Widow, while also postponing Steven Spielberg's West Side Story a full year in the company's latest recalibration due to the pandemic.

A friend of World War II Jewish diarist Anne Frank laid the first stone Wednesday at a new memorial under construction in Amsterdam to honor all Dutch victims of the Holocaust.

Iraqi doctor Tariq AlSheibani remembers little else beyond cowering on the ground as a dozen relatives of a patient, who had just died of COVID19, beat him unconscious.

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has been discharged from the hospital in Berlin where he has been treated after falling ill on a domestic flight in Siberia last month.