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U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy announced Thursday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus and is experiencing some COVID19 symptoms. He said he is quarantining in Louisiana.

Mexico President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obradors insistence on a public airing of a rapidly widening corruption scandal could complicate the investigation and open the case to criticism that its more about political payback than justice.

The United States remains deeply concerned by "serious flaws" in Belarus' presidential election, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday, adding that Washington was in support of international efforts to independently look into the country's...

Ali Chawla, 36, a Pakistani national, and Muzzamil Zaidi, 36, a US citizen, both residing in Qom, Iran and Asim Naqvi, 36, a US citizen who lives in Houston, Texas were all charged with violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

Sometime next year, genetically modified mosquitoes will be released in the Florida Keys in an effort to combat persistent insectborne diseases such as Dengue fever and the Zika virus.

The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the location of 21yearold Georgia mother Leila Cavett, whose young son was found wandering alone in a South Florida apartment complex last month.

Lebanon's central bank will only subsidise fuel, wheat and medicine for three more months, an official source said on Thursday, as critically low foreign currency reserves dwindle.

Wildfires raged through Northern California on Thursday, threatening thousands of homes and blackening the skies near San Francisco as crews struggled to surround them despite steep terrain and blistering heat.

The U.S. state of Michigan has reached a settlement to pay about $600 million to victims of the Flint water crisis, the state's attorney general and its governor announced on Thursday.

When Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny collapsed in an airplane bathroom Thursday, his supporters immediately suspected poisoning.

Demonstrators again took to the streets of the Belarusian capital and other cities Thursday, keeping up their push for the nation's authoritarian leader to step down after extending his 26year rule in a vote the opposition saw as rigged.

China denounced as slander on Thursday criticism of its ambassador to the Pacific nation of Kiribati over a picture of him walking on the backs of prostrate islanders that a top U.S. diplomat derided as unacceptable behaviour.

A colonel in Mali's army says he's now in charge of the West African country, declaring himself chairman of the junta that forced the democratically elected but unpopular president to resign.

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is in a serious condition in a Siberian hospital after suffering severe symptoms of what his spokeswoman on Thursday said she believed was a deliberate poisoning.

Thai police said on Thursday they have arrested four antigovernment activists over a July 18 protest that triggered a wave of studentled demonstrations demanding a new constitution and elections.

Two Delaware police officers were justified in using deadly force earlier this year against a Black man armed with a knife, the state attorney generals office has concluded.