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The U.S. political convention, a presidential campaign ritual dating to the 1830s, is being reinvented on the fly after being shortcircuited by the coronavirus pandemic much like the campaign itself.

Lebanon must shut down for two weeks after a surge in coronavirus infections, the caretaker health minister said on Monday, as the country reels from the massive Beirut port blast.

Poland is monitoring the situation on its border with Belarus, as the Belarusian army plans to hold drills this week in the Grodno region bordering Poland and Lithuania, Deputy Defence Minister Wojciech Skurkiewicz said on Monday.

Malaysia's northern state of Penang has barred entry by overseas visitors seeking medical treatment until it finalises new health and safety procedures in light of the coronavirus crisis, the chief minister said on Monday.

Pressure had been mounting on Jacinda Ardern to postpone the vote amid the resurgence of COVID-19 infections in its biggest city Auckland, after the country had been free of coronavirus cases for 102 days.

The Crown has found its Princess Diana.

Eight people were shot dead by an unidentified armed group in a contested drug trafficking area in southwestern Colombia on Saturday night, authorities said.

Top Democrats in the U.S. Congress on Sunday called on President Donald Trump's appointed postmaster general to testify this month on changes that have stoked fears they are aimed at holding up mailin ballots ahead of the November election.

Telephone lines between the United Arab Emirates and Israel were open on Sunday, calls made by Reuters reporters showed, after the two countries moved to normalise diplomatic relations last week.

South Korea accused a conservative pastor on Sunday of violating selfisolation rules and obstructing contact tracing at a church where 240 infections have fuelled the country's worst outbreak in over five months.

Wary of a rise in daily coronavirus cases that threatens to undo its relative success in containing the pandemic so far, the Greek government is imposing local restrictions on businesses, especially those that cater to big crowds, and business owners on t...

France is to propose that masks be worn in shared workspaces as the country grapples with a rebound in coronavirus cases that rose again in the past 24 hours to over 3,000.

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey will not back down to threats of sanctions nor to incursions on its claimed territory in the Mediterranean Sea, where it is in a standoff with EUmember Greece over oil and gas exploration rights.

Anyone can get a coronavirus test at the CentroMed clinic in San Antonio, but on a recent day, the drivethru was empty. Finally two masked people in a maroon SUV pulled straight on through with no wait.

While most patients with COVID-19 experience only mild illness, the review research published in the journal PLOS ONE, noted that the disease can generate severe pneumonia and lead to death in others.

They emerged dazed, shaken and in tears from the detention center in Minsk, to be met by waiting relatives. They displayed the blackandblue bruises on their bodies, saying police had beaten them mercilessly. One teenager asked his weeping mother to look a...