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The United States on Tuesday condemned "in the strongest terms" the abduction of more than 300 schoolboys from their school in northwestern Nigeria and was investigating Boko Haram's claim of responsibility, a spokesperson for the State Department said.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a lower federal court to reexamine Colorado restrictions on indoor religious services to combat the coronavirus in light of the justices recent ruling in favor of churches and synagogues in New York.

The Trump administration on Monday moved to loosen Obama-era restrictions on religious organizations that receive federal money to provide social services.

Drugmaker AstraZeneca has removed children from a midtolate stage trial of its COVID19 vaccine in Britain, clinical trial registers in the United States showed on Monday.

More than 100,000 people have already been vaccinated against the disease as part of Russia’s mass inoculation programme, which began in September alongside a Moscow-based human trial of the shot.

Italy plans to set up primroseshaped pavilions in its artistic squares to dispense vaccines against the highly contagious disease caused by the novel coronavirus during a campaign that kicks off next month.

Mansour, who was killed in a US drone strike along the Pakistan-Iran border on May 21, 2016, assumed the leadership of the Taliban in July 2015, replacing its founder and the one-eyed reclusive long-time spiritual head Mullah Mohammad Omar who died in 201...

London and Brussels face a makeorbreak decision on an elusive trade agreement on Sunday, after a week of tension and deadlock that left a tumultuous 'no deal' exit for Britain from the European Union's orbit on Dec. 31 looking more likely than not.

A subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma, according to a person familiar with a Justice Department tax investigation of Presidentelect Joe Biden's s...

Twenty one migrants have been found hidden in a sweat shop in Spain where they were forced to work long hours in unhygienic conditions for two euros ($2.40) per hour, police said on Saturday.

U.S. health authorities, shipping services and hospitals stood ready on Friday to immediately launch a massinoculation campaign of unparalleled dimension, as federal regulators granted emergency approval to the first COVID19 vaccine in the United States.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday brought an abrupt end to a longshot lawsuit filed by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump seeking to throw out voting results in four states, dealing him a crushing setback in his quest to undo his election loss to P...

Heres whats happening Friday in Election 2020 and President-elect Joe Biden's transition.

Doses of a COVID19 vaccine made by China's Sinovac Biotech are rolling off a Brazilian production line, drawing interest around the country and across Latin America from governments struggling to procure costlier vaccines.

Israel and Morocco agreed on Thursday to normalize relations in a deal brokered with U.S. help, making Morocco the fourth Arab country to set aside hostilities with Israel in the past four months.

Russia is considering imposing a grain export quota and wheat export tax for Feb. 15June 30, following President Vladimir Putin's criticism of rising food prices, four sources familiar with the government's discussions told Reuters.