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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this week that people exposed to COVID19 but not symptomatic may not need to be tested, shocking doctors and politicians and prompting accusations the guidance was politically motivated.

California firefighters made progress Wednesday containing some of the largest wildfires in state history but reported a jump in the number of homes destroyed by blazes, which have killed seven people statewide.

British authorities can share information with U.S. prosecutors about two members of a suspected Islamic State militant cell in Syria known as The Beatles, after a U.K. Supreme Court ruling that may lead to the men being tried in America.

A Palestinian from the occupied West Bank fatally stabbed an Israeli rabbi on a street in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva on Wednesday, police said.

Hurricane Laura was expected to rapidly strengthen to a Category 4 hurricane on Wednesday on a steady track to hit the TexasLouisiana Gulf Coast after dark, causing catastrophic damage, the National Hurricane Center said.

Scotland is buying 300 COVID19 testing machines that can give results in 12 minutes, the Scottish Government said on Wednesday, helping to locate potential outbreaks in remote locations.

Cocooned among plasticsheeted cubicles stacked high with sacred books, Jewish seminary students have found a way to keep their studies in Israel going safely amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Prosecutors on Wednesday called on U.N. judges to uphold former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic's life sentence for war crimes, including genocide, while his lawyers are calling for an acquittal or a retrial.

President Xi Jinping started the 'Operation Empty Plate' drive in mid-August to address what he called 'shocking and distressing' waste, prompting a nationwide push to comply reminiscent of the Mao era. The aggressive campaign has spooked many on social m...

Fighting resumed in southern Yemen between Emiratibacked separatists and the internationally recognized government, officials said Wednesday. The renewed violence comes after the separatists suspended participation in talks to implement a Saudibrokered pe...

Numerous Chinese and U.S. military exercises, Taiwan missiles tracking Chinese fighters and plummeting ChinaU.S. ties make for a heady cocktail of tension that is raising fears of conflict touched off by a crisis over Taiwan.

Police in Thailand continued their crackdown on the countrys studentled protest movement on Wednesday, arresting two more activists on charges of sedition and several minor offenses.

Australian researchers hope to start human trials of a coronavirus antibody therapy in early 2021, while a largescale trial of a vaccine could begin by the end of this year, scientists said on Wednesday.

Flávio Bolsonaro says he's being treated with azithromycin and chloroquine, an anti-malarial drug touted both by Brazil's president and by U.S. President Donald Trump, despite clinical trials that found it ineffective or even dangerous. Several members of...

A man who was among those charged in the notorious 1989 killing of Yusuf Hawkins, a Black teen set upon by a white mob and shot, was fired from a New York hiphop radio station after a new documentary brought the murder case renewed attention.

Australia's Victoria state on Wednesday recorded its secondmost deadly day of the coronavirus pandemic with 24 deaths, although fewer new infections were detected at the halfway mark of a strict sixweek lockdown.