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Chaos, interruptions, personal attacks and insults," one outspoken Chinese newspaper editor said of the U.S. presidential debate. An Australian counterpart said it was swamped" by the rancor engulfing America."

The British economy did not contract as much as originally thought during the second quarter of the year when coronavirus lockdown measures were at their most intense though the slump remained the worst on record and the biggest of all major economies.

Japan's Defense Ministry is seeking a recordhigh budget of nearly 5.5 trillion yen ($55 billion) for fiscal 2021 to fund more purchases of costly American stealth fighters and expand its capability to counter possible threats in both cyber and outer space...

Almost 500 days after Belgian parliamentary elections, seven parties from both sides of the linguistic aisle have agreed on forming a fully functioning majority government that will center on dealing with the pandemic and its devastating economic impact.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to Japan, Mongolia and South Korea next week, the State Department announced on Tuesday, a crucial visit to solidify ties with the regional allies at a time when Washington's relationship with China remains...

President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, faced off in their first debate of the campaign in Cleveland on Tuesday, with Trump talking over his rival and the moderator as he sought to hold the spotlight.

After more than a year of circling each other, Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden met on the debate stage Tuesday night in Ohio.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a sixday extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsins presidential election, handing Democrats a victory in their fight to deliver the key battleground state for Joe Biden in November.

A federal judge has rejected a request from a Libyan military commander who once lived in Virginia to toss out lawsuits accusing him of war atrocities.

A Kansas woman who was shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy after refusing to pull over was unarmed and posed no danger to him or the public, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.

Kuwait's Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah became the oilrich nation's new ruling emir Tuesday night, state media reported, reaching the highest post in the country after decades in its security services.

Mailin voting has gotten off to a rocky start in New York City, where election officials sent out a large number of absentee ballots with the wrong names and addresses on the return envelopes.

Giant blazes taking down buildings, residents fleeing their homes, exhausted fire fighters working around the clock: These are some of the scenes from the wildfire that exploded in the Northern California wine country.

Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other on Tuesday of firing into each other's territory, far from the NagornoKarabakh conflict zone, as the worst spate of fighting since the 1990s raged for a third day and the civilian death toll mounted.

French President Emmanuel Macron became on Tuesday the highestprofile Western leader to visit the exiled opposition leader of Belarus, pledging European support for the country's people.

Thirty years after Germany was reunited, many oncedecrepit city centers in the formerly communist east have been painstakingly restored and new factories have sprung up.