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The level of violence in Afghanistan is unacceptably high and too many Afghans are dying, the U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan said on Tuesday, ahead of flying to Doha to meet with the two sides involved in the intraAfghan peace talks.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has filed a criminal complaint with Turkish authorities against Dutch farright leader Geert Wilders saying that he had insulted him on social media, stateowned Anadolu news agency said on Tuesday.

Parts of Yemen are seeing their highest levels of acute malnutrition in children, heightening warnings that the country is approaching a dire food security crisis, a U.N. report said on Tuesday.

Initial investigations suggest the bomb went off minutes after someone left a bag at the madrasa in Pakistan's Peshawar.

Vietnam scrambled Tuesday to evacuate more than a million people in its central lowlands as a strong typhoon approached while some regions are still dealing with the aftermath of recent killer floods, state media said.

Oil prices eked out small gains on Tuesday after recent sharp losses, but sentiment remained subdued as a surge in global coronavirus cases hit prospects for crude demand while supply is rising.

The United States believes it killed seven senior leaders of alQaida in Syria in an airstrike last week as the leaders were meeting near Idlib, U.S. Central Command said Monday.

The experimental drugs are concentrated versions of one or two specific antibodies that worked best against the coronavirus in lab and animal tests.

Judge Juan Torruella, who served nearly four decades on the Bostonbased federal appeals court and took part in such highprofile rulings as the tossing of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs death sentence, died Monday at the age of 87, the court sai...

A day after White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said were not going to control the pandemic, a top Trump administration health official said Monday that Americans have already proven they can do that through basic safeguards shown to work.

A commission on Monday released the 47,000student Detroit Public Schools from more than a decade of state financial oversight, releasing full control of the district's finances to the city's elected school board.

An effort to recall Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has failed, the recall's organizer told supporters on Monday.

Saudi Arabia's energy minister said on Monday the world should be looking at all options to mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases in its fight against climate change, but that getting rid of oil and gas would be "farfetched and unrealistic".

German business confidence has declined for the first time after five straight monthly increases as coronavirus infections rebound across Europe, a closely watched survey showed Monday.

Clayton Kershaws glittering career lacked two of the most satisfying accomplishments: a win deep in the World Series and a championship ring.

A fastmoving typhoon forced thousands of villagers to flee to safety in provinces south of the Philippine capital Monday, flooding rural villages and ripping off roofs, officials said.