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Prime Minister Boris Johnson is pondering additional COVID19 restrictions as Britain is at a critical moment in the novel coronavirus outbreak with the trend going in the wrong direction.

As COVID-19, which emerged in China late last year, began to spread around the world, forcing millions of people to shelter at home and dealing a devastating economic blow, countries turned inward and diplomats say the United Nations struggled to assert i...

A plaque placed by Thai prodemocracy protesters near the Grand Palace in Bangkok that declared that Thailand belongs to the people and not the king has been removed, police said on Monday.

South Korea on Sunday extended level 2 social distancing for a week until Sept. 27, which limits indoor gatherings to below 50 and outdoor to less than 100, and may tighten limits for the Chuseok holiday when people traditionally reunite with families.

The challenge will be to prevent the doyenne of the Supreme Court from being replaced with her ideological opposite, since Trump has pre-selected very conservative candidates.

The United States took this decisive action because, in addition to Irans failure to perform its JCPOA commitments, the Security Council failed to extend the UN arms embargo on Iran, which had been in place for 13 years, Pompeo said in a statement release...

AstraZeneca's topselling drug Tagrisso has been shown to slow the spread of a certain type of lung cancer to the brain when diagnosed at an early stage, the British drugmaker said on Saturday.

Belarusian police detained hundreds of protesters in central Minsk on Saturday, a witness said, as around 2,000 people marched through the city demanding that President Alexander Lukashenko step down.

America’s producers of wild blueberries are largely located in Maine, where the blueberry industry has battled fungal plant diseases and erratic market conditions in recent years. The harvest takes place every summer, and this year’s crop was likely far o...

Two people were killed and 14 others wounded in a shooting in Rochester, New York, police said on Saturday.

A bodyguard who was traveling with Britains foreign secretary has been suspended from duties after he reportedly left a loaded gun on a plane.

Taiwan said on Saturday it scrambled jets in response to the approach of Chinese jets for the second day in a row, escalating tensions further as a senior U.S. official was on the island for talks.

The Trump administration reversed guidance Friday on COVID19 testing for a second time, urging those exposed to people with the virus to get tested even if they are not displaying symptoms.

The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Friday it had issued a subpoena to compel the head of U.S. government broadcasting operations to testify next week, amid concern about editorial independence under President Donald Trump'...

Taiwan President Tsai Ingwen pledged deeper ties with the United States at a dinner for a visiting senior State Department official, on the same day China sent 18 fighter jets to harry the island to express its anger at the trip.

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