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Favourites Russia Tennis Federation opened their Davis Cup Finals campaign with a resounding victory over Ecuador, Britain began with a win against France and Italy eased into the quarterfinals with a win over Colombia on Saturday.

The seminary in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has had an outsize effect in Afghanistan.

Tunisian police on Friday shot and wounded an extremist who sought to attack them with a knife and cleaver in the capital, authorities said.

The World Trade Organization is postponing its conference of government ministers set to open Tuesday after Switzerland initiated new travel restrictions following the emergence of a worrying new coronavirus variant, a Genevabased trade official said Frid...

The U.N. Commission on Refugees and a private foundation announced a sort of fostercare program Friday to place about 120 unaccompanied minor migrants with Mexican families for up to two years.

Nineteen people died and 20 more were injured after a bus apparently carrying pilgrims to a religious site in central Mexico crashed on Friday.

The French Academy, the prestigious institution that shapes the standards of the French language, said on Thursday it will admit Peruvian writer and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa as a new member, although he is 10 years older than its statutes allow a...

Slovakia went into a two-week lockdown, the Czech government declared a 30 day state of emergency involving early closure of bars and clubs and a ban on Christmas markets, while Germany crossed the threshold of 100,000 COVID-19-related deaths.

The Solomon Islands imposed a 36hour lockdown in the capital Honiara after protesters calling for the prime minister to resign looted stores and set fire to buildings, including in the Pacific nation's parliament.

Mexican authorities said they have discovered three more bodies hung from a highway overpass in the central state of Zacatecas, where 10 other bodies were found last week.

A $9 billion highway widening project being proposed in the Houston area could become an important test of the Biden administrations commitment to addressing what it has said is a history of racial inequity with infrastructure projects in the U.S.

Even as Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai appeared on a video call with the Olympics chief, the former vice premier she accused of sexual assault has stayed silent and out of sight maintaining the veil of secrecy that shrouds China's political elite.

A team of engineers from the University of Cambridge used computer modelling to quantify how droplets spread when people cough.

Two southeast Iowa teenagers charged with firstdegree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the death of their high school Spanish teacher asked a state court judge Tuesday to lower their bond so they could be released from jail, while prosecutors ask...

A federal judge on Tuesday denied a death row inmates request for a stay of execution, paving the way for him to receive a lethal injection next month.

Farright social media personality Tim Gionet, who calls himself Baked Alaska, has been charged with misdemeanors over allegedly damaging a Hanukkah display in December 2020 outside the Arizona Capitol.