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Peruvian opposition lawmakers filed a censure motion to oust the government's economy minister on Wednesday, underscoring political tensions as the Andean country rides out its deepest economic plunge in decades due to the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday defended his office's intervention in a defamation lawsuit by a woman who accused President Donald Trump of raping her, when it moved the case to federal court and sought to install its own lawyers to replac...

Two Lebanese political parties allied with Hezbollah said on Wednesday they would not be swayed by U.S. sanctions imposed on its members, with the Shi'ite Muslim Amal group saying Washington's move was like targeting the whole nation.

The World Health Organization has said safety is paramount in vaccine clinical trials and temporary suspensions are not unusual, after AstraZeneca suspended its global coronavirus vaccine trial because of an unexplained illness in a participant.

There could be some progress within weeks in resolving a three yearlong rift between Gulf Arab states, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Wednesday, citing signs of "flexibility" in negotiations.

Norwegian police have arrested a man sought by French prosecutors on suspicion that he took part in a fatal attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris 38 years ago, the man's lawyer and police said on Wednesday.

New Delhi-born Chopra who was the general secretary of the Indian Overseas Congress, London, is the first and only Indian-origin elected councillor in London Borough of Southwark Council, which has only 2 per cent Indian-origin people.

Pope Francis said on Wednesday no one should seek economic or political gain from the coronavirus pandemic and vaccine developers should not see it merely as a profitmaking endeavour.

President Donald Trump and some Republican allies have repeatedly asserted, without evidence, that a surge in mailin voting amid the coronavirus pandemic will lead to massive fraud in November's election.

China's foreign ministry said on Wednesday Australian authorities had searched and seized items from the homes of four Chinese journalists, including reporters from state news agency Xinhua and the China News Service.

South Korean President Moon Jaein will hold an emergency economic policy meeting on Thursday to discuss new stimulus packages, including a fourth supplementary budget, to lessen the coronavirus outbreak's impact, his office said on Wednesday.

Belarusian opposition politician Maxim Znak was detained on Wednesday by masked men wearing plain clothes, the Interfax news agency cited his allies as saying.

The European Union is set to kick start discussions next week on how quickly it will cut greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade.

The breakaway territory of Somaliland opened a representative office in Taipei on Wednesday in a rare diplomatic coup for Taiwan that has already drawn Beijings ire.

Sri Lanka has extinguished another fire on a stricken supertanker loaded with 2 million barrels of oil and was towing the ship to deeper water, the island nation's Navy said in a statement on Wednesday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he will reconsider yearend projects after a typhoon battered several areas of the country, state media KCNA reported on Wednesday.