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Oman's sultan has designated ministers of foreign affairs and finance, and a new central bank chairman, titles formerly held by the sultan himself, in a revamp that may signal a pickup in reform momentum for the struggling oil producer.

Israel would oppose any U.S. F35 warplane sales to the United Arab Emirates despite forging relations with the Gulf power, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, citing a need to maintain Israeli military superiority in the region.

Rebuilding Europe after the coronavirus pandemic will be akin to the postWorld War II reconstruction effort and the bloc must reaffirm its core values despite challenges from global powers, former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said.

The Philippines' health ministry on Tuesday confirmed 4,836 novel coronavirus infections, the seventh straight day of reporting more than 3,000 cases, and seven additional deaths.

Australia on Tuesday recorded its lowest oneday rise in new COVID19 infections in a month, buoying hopes that a stringent lockdown in the country's secondmost populous state has prevented a fresh wave of cases nationally.

In a blunt rejection of the Trump administration, the wife of former president Barack Obama called Donald Trump an incompetent president who displays an 'utter lack of empathy'.

Students at California State University, the nations largest fouryear public university system, will need to take an ethic studies course to graduate under a bill signed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The brother of George Floyd, whose death in Minneapolis police custody in May sparked waves of antiracism protests across the country, will address the Democratic National Convention on Monday night, CNN reported.

The judge said the legal basis of the regulation was now in question after the Supreme Court's major ruling in June finding that LGBT people are protected under a federal law using similar language that bars employment discrimination.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he would accept the Republican nomination for a second term during a live speech at the White House next week, confirming plans that have drawn criticism from Democrats and even some fellow Republicans.

An appeals court went a little out of this world Monday in ruling that an offshoot of the Star Trek franchise did not infringe the copyrights of a developers videogame concept.

The warden of the central prison in Somalias capital has been suspended following a recent riot at the facility in which 19 people were killed, an official said Monday.

Spain's former King Juan Carlos was dogged by reports he was linked to corrupt dealings, including international transfers of tens of millions of dollars, before he left the country to try to relieve the pressure on the reign of his son King Felipe.

Dozens of Indigenous people, many daubed in black paint representing their grief and fighting spirit, blocked a major highway in Brazil's Amazon on Monday to pressure the government for help in protecting them from COVID19.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said his administration was considering whether to allow oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a 19 million acre (7.7 million hectares) refuge that has been offlimits to drilling for decades.

Countries that had seen a summer respite from coronavirus outbreaks tracked swiftly rising numbers of new confirmed cases Monday, prompting fears among government leaders and health officials that months of hardwon progress would be lost in a matter of da...