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"As I speak, Afghans representing the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan are preparing to sit with other Afghans representing the Taliban to discuss, at long last, a political settlement to the conflict. This is truly a historic moment," Deborah Lyons, the U...

Japanese rescuers found a second crew member and multiple dead cows Friday in waters where a livestock ship capsized and sank during stormy weather two days earlier, coast guard officials said.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Friday that New Zealand would keep its current coronavirus restrictions in place until at least mid-September as a precaution.

Wyomings governor is promoting a Trump administration study that says capturing carbon dioxide emitted by coalfired power plants would be an economical way to curtail the pollution findings questioned by a utility that owns the plants and wants to shift...

Colombia's police chief is calling on a former U.S. Green Beret behind a plot to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro to answer for his crimes in the South American country.

A devoutly Catholic husband who refused to grant his wife a divorce on religious grounds urged Nebraskas highest court Thursday to overturn the states nofault divorce law in a case that could leave Nebraska as the only state without a law that lets couple...

France registered more than 7,000 new coronavirus infections over 24 hours for the second time in two days, the health ministry said on Thursday, while hospitalisations for the virus also rose again.

Georgia's state election board on Thursday referred Election Day problems in the state's most populous county during the June primary to the attorney general's office for further review.

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara will meet French President Emmnauel Macron on Friday just days after announcing he would run for a thirdterm despite protests by opponents who say the constitution forbids him to contest the October vote.

Flash floods and a landslide triggered by heavy rains killed 12 people in Nepal and at least 36 people were missing in the Himalayan nation's biggest monsoonrelated disaster this year, officials said on Thursday.

The British government announced Thursday that it is investing in a coronavirus test that gives results in as little as 20 minutes, touting it as the latest milestone in efforts to take the U.K. to the front of the global pack in testing for COVID19.

As two typhoons hammered North Korea within a week of each other, state media broadcasts looked unusually reminiscent of international TV coverage, with correspondents standing kneedeep in floodwaters to provide rare, nearly realtime reports.

The market share of electric cars in Europe increased during and immediately after the worst of the pandemic lockdowns, industry figures showed Thursday, even as overall sales of vehicles of all types plunged during the second quarter. The new figures com...

Seven police officers were justified in the fatal shooting of an armed man who held two women hostage for several hours at a UPS processing center in southern New Jersey last year, according to the state attorney generals office.

Germany has taken in another group of sick children who have been living in migrant camps in Greece, along with their close relatives.

A Slovak court on Thursday found a politically connected businessman not guilty of charges that he ordered the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak, a case that shook the nation and brought down longtime premier Robert Fico.