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The head of the country’s RDIF sovereign wealth fund said Russia had already received requests from more than 20 countries for one billion doses of the vaccine.

President Donald Trump said on Monday an executive order requiring health insurance companies to cover patients with preexisting conditions would emphasize Republican support for the practice even though it is already part of existing law.

Several dozen Black Lives Matter demonstrators at a weekend protest in rural Nevada were greeted by a far larger group of counterdemonstrators, including some bearing militarystyle weapons and tactical gear, but a sheriff who had made controversial remark...

A Belarusian protester who was reported to have died during bloody clashes with police after Sunday's presidential election told Reuters he had survived a brutal police beating and that he expected to be detained shortly.

Germany's ruling coalition is at odds over extending a freeze on insolvency rules put in place to avoid a wave of corporate bankruptcies due to the coronavirus crisis.

The Belarusian opposition accused President Alexander Lukashenko on Monday of rigging a landslide reelection victory after bloody clashes between police and protesters sparked Western criticism and talk of new sanctions.

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani on Monday issued a decree to release the final batch of prisoners demanded by the insurgent Taliban as a condition to move to peace talks, sources told Reuters.

French humanitarian aid group ACTED said seven of its colleagues, along with one of its guides, had been killed in the gun attack in Niger on Sunday.

A bomb targeting an antidrug force tore through a busy market in southwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 10 others, police and hospital officials said.

Pope Francis urged the people of Lebanon on Sunday to work together in the wake of the devastating port blast to give birth to a new "free and strong" coexistence.

Two teenage boys were arrested on gun charges and other counts after a Georgia police officer attempting a traffic stop fired multiple gunshots at their car, according to police.

At a mostly white high school near Salt Lake City, the steps leading to the football field are covered in red handprints, arrows and drawings of Native American men in headdresses meant to represent the mascot, the Braves. Welcome to the Dark Side and Fig...

Police in North Macedonia say they have found 94 migrants packed into a truck in a the countrys southeast.

The huge ammonium nitrate explosion in Beirut's port that devastated much of the city left a crater 43 metres (141 feet) deep.

Afghanistan agreed on Sunday to release 400 "hardcore" Taliban prisoners, paving the way for the beginning of peace talks aimed at ending more than 19 years of war.

Belarus police briefly detained and then released a prominent member of the opposition challenging President Alexander Lukashenko in a presidential election, the campaign team said on Saturday.