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Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard force has managed to fly a surveillance drone over the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier which last week transited through the Strait of Hormuz, an Iranian news agency said Wednesday.

The British government says there could be lines of 7,000 trucks at the English Channel and twoday waits to get into France immediately after the U.K. makes its economic break from the European Union at the end of the year.

Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he told the U.S. government during a recent visit to Washington it was the European Union, not the United Kingdom, that was threatening the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland.

Japan currently bans entry for foreigners from most countries, but has been negotiating the gradual resumption of cross-border business travel. Business visitors are already allowed from seven places — including Thailand, Vietnam and Taiwan.

When Mustafa Kinno felt the ground shake and heard the deafening blast toward the port, he frantically called his brother living nearby.

Police began removing protesters seeking more action against climate change from a square near the Swiss parliament building in Bern early on Wednesday after the group that had set up tents refused to heed a city order to leave.

Thousands of people are expected to pay their respects at the Supreme Court to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the women's rights champion, leader of the court's liberal bloc and feminist icon who died last week.

Ivory Coast's ruling party said on Tuesday it will push ahead with the October election regardless of whether the opposition participate, comments likely to deepen political tensions in the world's top cocoa producer.

Former rebel military commander Ishmael Toroama has been elected as president of Bougainville, an autonomous region in the South Pacific, electoral officials said on Wednesday, and is set to lead talks seeking independence from Papua New Guinea.

The U.S. government put convicted rapist and murderer William LeCroy to death by lethal injection on Tuesday, the sixth federal execution this summer after a lengthy hiatus in capital punishment at the national level.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued an order that he said will expand a ban on the use of federal money for certain diversity training.

A man was arrested last week after striking a 12yearold girl in the face with a flagpole during a small rally for President Donald Trump near a Florida intersection, authorities said.

What do you do when Vladimir Putin offers you Russias new coronavirus vaccine, for free?

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani used the George Floyd killing as a metaphor for U.S. treatment of his country, saying in a U.N. speech Tuesday that it is reminiscent of our own experience.

One of the women on Donald Trumps short list to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court got her first taste of politics as a college student stuffing envelopes for Democrat Joe Bidens 1988 presidential run.

A California state audit has found that the University of California wrongly admitted at least 64 wealthy students over the past six years as favors to donors, family, and friends."