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The U.N. envoy for Mali urged people in the West African nation, who just lived through another military coup, to use a recently agreed to 18month transition to pull their country out of the hellish cycle of coups that has left the country in crisis.

U.S.listed shares of major cannabis producers surged on Thursday after Democratic vice president nominee Kamala Harris said marijuana would be decriminalized at a federal level in the United States under a Biden administration.

China's foreign ministry said on Friday the country has formally joined the global COVID19 vaccine initiative known as COVAX, becoming the biggest economy to date to pledge support to help finance doses for low and middleincome countries.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, one of President Donald Trump's most powerful allies in Washington, has avoided visiting the White House for more than two months because of its handling of the coronavirus, he told reporters on Thursday.

The Justice Department sued Yale University on Thursday, weeks after prosecutors found the university was illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants, in violation of federal civil rights law.

The U.N. Security Council met in its chamber at U.N. headquarters in New York for the first time since the COVID19 pandemic hit New York in March on Thursday, and despite wearing masks and being separated by plexiglass dividers, U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craf...

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.

The Czech government announced further restrictions Thursday to contain the pandemic in the hardest hitcountry in struggling Central and Eastern Europe, where a record surge of infections was also recorded in most other countries.

A surge of coronavirus cases in Wisconsin and the Dakotas is forcing a scramble for hospital beds and raising political tensions, as the Upper Midwest and Plains emerge as one of the nations most troubling hotspots.

A person claiming to be Belarusian opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya joined a confidential virtual meeting of the Danish Parliaments Foreign Policy Committee before its members suspected something was wrong, its panel said Thursday.

The foreign ministers of Turkey and Greece met on Thursday for the first time since their dispute over energy exploration and territorial rights in the eastern Mediterranean, and agreed to hold bilateral talks on the issue, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut...

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Paris region health authorities ordered hospitals to activate emergency measures starting Thursday to cope with fastrising numbers of COVID19 patients, who now fill 40% of the regions intensive care units.

President Donald Trump, still confined to the White House where he is being treated for COVID19, planned more steps on Thursday to try to reinvigorate a reelection campaign hit hard by his handling of the pandemic.

African Americans still pay more than any other group to own a home, a disparity that over 30 years contributes to roughly half the current $130,000 gap between Blacks and whites in savings at retirement, a recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology sho...

Mainland China reported 11 new COVID19 cases on Oct. 7, up from seven cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Thursday.