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For the first time in decades of Miss Venezuela competitions, the pageant powerhouse's socalled most beautiful night will not be live as organizers try to put on a compelling contest virtually amid a pandemic lockdown.

The former boss of Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm brought down by a scandal over how it obtained Facebook users private data, has been banned from holding company directorships for seven years.

China said it was willing to work with other UN members to seek a package solution that can accommodate all parties' interests and concerns through dialogue and negotiation.

European Union officials urged member nations Thursday to move quickly to slow the latest wave of COVID19 infections to avoid a repeat of the broad lockdowns that paralyzed the continents economy in the spring.

Three times as many people tested positive for COVID19 in England in latest weekly figures compared to the end of August, NHS Test and Trace said on Thursday, with more people being referred to the system, though the proportion reached fell.

Civic leaders in Marseille reacted with anger on Thursday to the closure of the city's bars and restaurants, saying they had not been consulted by the French government which ordered the measures to contain an upsurge in COVID19 cases.

The election date has been announced amidst reported consultations to elevate Gilgit-Baltistan's status to that of a full-fledged province.

Germany added regions in 11 European countries to the list of destinations it classifies as coronavirus risk zones, dealing a further blow to hopes for a revival of tourism as many countries brace for a possible second wave of the pandemic.

Taiwan said Thursday that China sent two military surveillance planes toward the island for three straight days and it dispatched patrols in response.

Firefighters notched a victory in their battle to beat back a massive blaze raging outside Los Angeles, more than doubling containment in the past 24 hours, the U.S. Forest Service said on Wednesday.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday denied a request for a fullcourt review of a ruling that a Virginia school board's transgender bathroom ban is unconstitutional.

The Navy began releasing documents from the investigation into the deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history on Wednesday, but the Navy said the documents released under a court order dont shed any new light on the cause of the sinking.

World leaders gathering remotely Wednesday criticized a haphazard global response to a microscopic virus that has unleashed economic havoc and taken nearly 1 million lives in its march across the globe. In the words of Kazakhstans president, it was a crit...

The group gathered around the town square, waiting for the arrival of what has become a new American boogeyman: antifa.

A grand jury has indicted one officer on criminal charges six months after Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police in Kentucky. The jury presented its decision against fired officer Brett Hankison Wednesday to a judge in Louisville, where the shooting t...

The Taliban launched a wave of attacks on security checkpoints in southern Afghanistan overnight, killing a total of 28 Afghan policemen, officials said Wednesday.