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A leaked draft of Iraq's state budget sent Iraqis into a panic on Thursday as it confirmed the government's intentions to devalue the national currency, the Iraqi dinar, and cut salaries to cope with the impacts of a severe economic crisis.

President Donald Trump's expected move to his MaraLago club after he leaves office next month is being challenged by a lawyer who says a 1990s agreement allowing Trump to convert the Florida property into a business prohibits anyone from living there, inc...

Russian sports officials were in an upbeat mood Thursday after finding crucial loopholes in the decision to ban the country from using its name, flag and anthem at the next two Olympics.

Frenchman JeanLuc Brunel who knew deceased sex offender and U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein was placed in custody on Wednesday in Paris, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Thursday.

Brunel was detained on Wednesday on accusations of rape, sexual assault of minors, human trafficking and being part of a criminal conspiracy, Paris prosecutors told AFP.

Thailand on Thursday eased travel restrictions for citizens from 56 countries in a bid to boost the country's pandemichit tourism industry, though visitors will be required to undergo a mandatory twoweek hotel quarantine.

Republican senators on Wednesday further perpetuated President Donald Trumps baseless claims of widespread voter fraud, two days after Democrat Joe Bidens victory was sealed by the Electoral College.

A French court on Wednesday convicted 14 people of crimes ranging from financing terrorism to membership of a criminal gang in relation to Islamist attacks in 2015 against the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a Jewish supermarket.

Here are some reactions from church figures, NGOs and political leaders to New Zealand's Royal Commission of Inquiry report on historic abuse of children in state and faithbased institutions that estimated that up to quarter of a million people were abuse...

The share of the Spanish population that contracted coronavirus has nearly doubled to almost 10%, or about 4.7 million people, in the second wave of contagion since late summer, results from the latest stage of a nationwide antibody study showed on Tuesda...

Britain has agreed to spend 3.7 billion pounds ($4.93 billion) on COVID19 vaccines and in most cases will bear the liability if claims are made against the pharmaceutical firms involved, the National Audit Office (NAO) said on Wednesday.

Armenia and Azerbaijan have begun exchanging groups of prisoners of war, part of an "all for all" swap mediated by Russia after a bloody conflict over the NagornoKarabakh enclave, Russia's defence ministry said on Tuesday.

Public health officials work to keep the nation safe and healthy, overseeing everything from water inspections to childhood immunizations.

South Korea's prime minister pleaded with residents on Tuesday to abide by social distancing rules to avoid even greater restrictions in the face of the country's largest wave of coronavirus infections.

Biden's speech came after the Electoral College had cast 306 votes for Biden and 232 for Trump, cementing Biden's win.

Two Sackler family members who previously served on the board of OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP have agreed to appear before a U.S. House of Representatives committee examining the nationwide opioid epidemic, avoiding subpoenas threatened by the panel's...