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Thai authorities arrested a student leader on Friday over an antigovernment protest last month, police said, just a few days before a big demonstration scheduled for Sunday.

Two migrant workers from Myanmar on death row in Thailand for the 2014 murder of two British backpackers had their sentences commuted to life in prison on Friday thanks to a royal decree, their lawyer said.

Landslides triggered by heavy rain swept away dozens of houses and killed at least 16 people in mountainous villages of Nepal on Friday and many people were missing, a home ministry official said.

The French government on Friday declared Paris and Marseille and its surrounding area highrisk zones for the coronavirus, granting authorities there powers to impose localised curbs to contain the spread of the disease.

President Donald Trump is attacking Joe Biden for calling on governors to mandate that all Americans wear masks for the next three months, accusing the Democratic presidential candidate of politicizing an issue Trump himself has used for political gain in...

President Moon Jaein vowed on Friday to spotlight the plight of South Korea's last few surviving "comfort women", as those forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels are known, in efforts to resolve a dispute with its neighbour over the thorny issue.

Irans Foreign Ministry strongly condemned an historic deal establishing full diplomatic relations between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, calling it a stab in the back to all Muslims, state TV reported Friday.

The white rings that wrap around two massive lakes in the U.S. West are a stark reminder of how water levels are dropping and a warning that the 40 million people who rely on the Colorado River face a much drier future.

Twin beams of light representing the World Trade Center towers won't be beamed into the sky during this year's memorial of the 9/11 terror attacks in New York City because of concerns about the coronavirus pandemic, organizers of the annual ceremony said...

Michael Cohen's memoir about President Donald Trump will be released Sept. 8 by Skyhorse Publishing, which confirmed the news Thursday to The Associated Press. The book is called Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald...

Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, the new jointventure between the two auto companies, on Thursday announced an additional $830 million investment in its new Alabama plant.

The U.S. government has for the first time seized vessels allegedly loaded with Iranian fuel in violation of sanctions imposed by the Trump administration, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing U.S. officials.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Thursday it has launched a comprehensive investigation into allegations that a renegade group of deputies calling themselves The Executioners have taken control of the department's Compton station through t...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah alSisi on Thursday welcomed a deal between the United Arab Emirates and Israel on normalising ties that includes an Israeli agreement to halt further annexation of Palestinian lands.

Pope Francis continued cleaning house in Poland on Thursday following revelations of clergy sexual abuse and coverup, replacing the powerful archbishop of Gdansk on his 75th birthday.

Workplaces are the main clusters of coronavirus infection in France and companies should have staff work from home as much as possible after the August holidays, one of France's top coronavirus experts said on Thursday.