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Guinean President Alpha Conde sought to extend his decade in power in Sunday's election, after the country's constitution was changed earlier this year to allow the 82yearold leader to run for a third term.

Despite a second attempt at a ceasefire, Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations Sunday of violating the new truce in their destructive conflict over the separatist region of NagornoKarabakh.

A British police officer who was poisoned while investigating the nerve agent attack against a former Russian agent in England two years ago has quit, saying the incident took so much from me that he could no longer do the job.

China's top legislative body passed a new biosecurity law aimed at preventing and managing infectious diseases, state news agency Xinhua reported late on Saturday.

Haitian police on Saturday fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse antigovernment protesters who blocked roads and set fires in the capital, PortauPrince. Several people were injured.

A police officer and another man were injured by gunfire in Kansas, authorities said.

Turkish Cypriots vote on Sunday in a leadership runoff that could decide whether they retain more control over their own affairs or steer even closer to an increasingly domineering Turkey.

Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other on Saturday of attacks in violation of a Russianbrokered truce, as the worst fighting in the South Caucasus since the 1990s continued.

Call him lowkey, understated, maybe even boring." Firstterm Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan is betting voters care more about his effectiveness, as he desperately fights to keep a seat his party is counting on to take the Senate majority.

The 59-year-old Obama remained on the sidelines during the Democratic presidential primaries but endorsed his former deputy after he won the party nomination.

Christopher Pendergast, a suburban New York teacher who turned a dreaded Lou Gehrigs Disease diagnosis into a decades-long campaign to raise awareness and fund research, died from the illness on Wednesday. He was 71.

Melania Trump lashed out Friday at selfserving adults for focusing on her falling out with a friend and adviser, writing that the attention paid to salacious claims about the broken relationship comes at the expense of her work on behalf of children.

Jailed Philippine activist Reina Mae Nasino wanted to hold her threemonthold daughter for the last time before she was laid to rest on Friday but she could not.

Flush with a late burst of campaign cash in her bid to unseat Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Democrat Amy McGrath is using some of her money to amplify an awkward moment for the powerful majority leader from their exchange about the coronavirus in thei...

A prison inmate was shot fatally by police in western Germany on Friday after he took a jail employee hostage and threatened to kill her, authorities said.

The overwhelming majority of voters believe the nation is deeply divided over its most important values, and many have doubts about the health of the democracy itself. And supporters of President Donald Trump and Joe Biden alike think the opposing candida...