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Joe Biden said Wednesday that while he trusts what scientists say about a potential coronavirus vaccine, he doesnt trust President Donald Trump.

He weighed at least 7 tons and had eyes the size of baseballs. His bite could have crushed a car. He bore scars from fierce prehistoric battles.

A week after a threejudge panel blocked an order from President Donald Trump seeking to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to redraw congressional districts, the Trump administration on Wednesday gave notice it intends to appeal.

The Trump administration has sketched out a framework that it hopes will avoid a threeway arms race as a deadline nears for extending the only remaining nuclear arms control deal with Russia and as China looks to expand its nuclear forces.

Hurricane Sally's storm surge and torrential rain inundated a stretch of the Gulf Coast on Wednesday, damaging parked cars and prompting many calls for evacuations.

Doctor Alexandre Avenel has four COVID19 patients in his intensive care ward, all with depleted blood oxygenation levels but none under intubation. That might not have been the case six months ago.

Vietnam is readying plans to evacuate up to half a million people as it braces for a tropical storm expected to make landfall in the Southeast Asian country's central coastline later this week.

From across the Philippines, they gathered to pray by Zoom.

A German think tank said Wednesday it is closing its Hong Kong office following China's imposition of a sweeping new national security law on the territory.

Myanmar authorities are racing to build a field hospital in the commercial capital of Yangon to cope with a surge of coronavirus infections that doctors fear threatens to overwhelm the country's fragile health system.

Sirens warning of rocket fire from Gaza sounded in southern Israel on Tuesday as a ceremony was under way in Washington for the signing of agreements normalising relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Oregon's governor is seeking additional federal assistance as her state battles the deadly wildfires sweeping the western United States, and local residents pitched in on Tuesday to help the many people displaced by the blazes.

Fiftytwo inmates at a prison in the northeastern Congo city of Bunia have starved to death this year because of insufficient government funding, the United Nations and local authorities said.

South Korea said on Tuesday none of its joint military action plans with the United States include any use of nuclear weapons, after a book by a U.S. journalist sparked debate over whether scenarios of a fullblown war with North Korea would entail a nucle...

A Chinese border city launched coronavirus tests for tens of thousands of residents on Tuesday, following two imported infections from neighbouring Myanmar, barring some people from leaving homes, and ordering vehicles off the streets.

When the coronavirus pandemic forced Indonesian schools to shut, it exposed how millions of households in the Southeast Asian country still had no access to the internet or even a device like a mobile phone to do remote learning.