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The postponed European Championship is unlikely to be held across the continent, as planned, and options could be for it to be staged in one country or one major city with enough stadium capacity, Switzerland's soccer chief Dominique Blanc said.

Russia will announce its exit from the Open Skies treaty in the coming days, a pact that allows unarmed surveillance flights over member countries, the Kommersant newspaper cited unnamed official sources as saying on Friday.

Despite the unusual circumstances on Capitol Hill, the committee is working in good faith to move this nominee as fast as possible and ensure the committee's members have an opportunity to question the nominee in both open and closed settings

Yemenis fear a U.S. decision to blacklist the Houthi movement could further isolate them from the global financial system, depriving the warbattered country of vital remittances and hampering the flow of imports.

The Trump administration on Thursday imposed new sanctions on Chinese officials over Beijing's increasing assertiveness in the South China Sea. The penalties are yet another Trump administration move that may make Presidentelect Joe Biden's diplomacy with...

In a statement, the ministry cited "international logistical issues," adding that the flight will take off from the northeastern city of Recife at 11:00 pm local time on Friday and that its return date is still to be decided.

The head of Germany's vaccine regulator on Thursday described the success rate of AstraZeneca's COVID19 vaccine as excellent, after some Australian scientists voiced scepticism about its efficacy.

The country's first female president was impeached in 2017 after huge street protests against her rule, Park Geun-hye, was convicted the following year of bribery and abuse of power and jailed for 30 years.

China reported its biggest jump in COVID19 cases in more than 10 months as infections in northeastern Heilongjiang province nearly tripled, underscoring the growing threat ahead of a major national holiday when hundreds of millions of people usually trave...

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft said on Wednesday that she had spoken with Taiwan President Tsai Ingwen to assure her of Washington's support for the island, after her own trip to Taipei this week got scrapped.

But experts cautioned that the findings mean people who contracted the disease in the first wave of the pandemic in the early months of 2020 may now be vulnerable to catching it again.

The religious order that ran a care home for unmarried mothers in the Irish town of Tuam where the remains of hundreds of infants were found in a mass grave has apologised for the treatment of those in its care.

Estonia's president on Wednesday asked the leader of the opposition centreright Reform Party, Kaja Kallas, to form the next government after Prime Minister Juri Ratas resigned over an inquiry into a property development.

Malaysia, which is negotiating supplies of a COVID19 vaccine with China's Sinovac Biotech, will only go ahead with procurement if it satisfies the safety and efficacy standards of local regulators, a minister said on Wednesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned a stay on convicted murderer Lisa Montgomery's execution by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, clearing the way for application of the death penalty for the only woman on federal death row in the United States, wh...

Coronavirusinduced lockdowns caused annual traffic congestion to fall in most countries for the first time in at least 10 years, disrupting longheld traffic patterns like the dreaded morning commute to work, a report released on Tuesday showed.