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A Houston energy firm has dropped a lawsuit against Venezuela's former oil czar, who it had accused of orchestrating demands for a $10 million bribe to approve an asset sale in the South American country.

German police called to the scene of a suspected shooting found a man who had fallen asleep with an action film running at top volume on TV.

The European Union has suspended its training missions in Mali after the military coup this month that removed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita from power, EU officials said on Wednesday.

The Kremlin said on Wednesday Russia did not want the illness of opposition politician Alexei Navalny to damage ties with the West and that it was as keen as anyone else to find out what caused him to fall gravely ill.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Greece on Wednesday not to test his countrys patience or courage, further stoking tensions between the NATO allies over offshore energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will consult with doctors before holding a news conference on Friday, three sources familiar with the situation told Reuters, amid worries about his health after two recent hospital examinations.

Kazakhstan has signed a deal to get supplies of Russia's first potential COVID19 vaccine once clinical trials are complete, the Central Asian nation's government said on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI India has reported more than 67,000 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, raising the countrys number of reported infections to 3.2 million with 1.5 million reported infections coming this month alone.

Police have arrested two Hong Kong opposition lawmakers in relation to antigovernment protests in July last year, one of whom was suspected of rioting, the Democratic Party said on Wednesday.

Casting aside his own advice to American diplomats and bulldozing a long tradition of secretary of state nonpartisanship, Mike Pompeo plunged into the heart of the 2020 presidential race Tuesday with a speech supporting Donald Trumps reelection.

Canadian Foreign Minister FrancoisPhilippe Champagne met his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, in Rome on Tuesday and urged Beijing to release two citizens of Canada it has detained, Ottawa said.

The Israeli military ordered residents living in communities near the border with Lebanon to shelter in place and blocked roads early Wednesday following what it described as a security incident in the area.

The U.S. agency in charge of processing immigration applications said on Tuesday that it had avoided a planned furlough of 70% of its staff but warned that it still faced financial hardship that could result in some applicants experiencing longer wait tim...

The number of Americans newly diagnosed with the coronavirus is falling a development experts credit at least partly to increased wearing of masks even as the outbreak continues to claim nearly 1,000 lives in the U.S. each day.

The death penalty case against Nikolas Cruz in the 2018 massacre at a Florida high school remains in limbo.

The panel in its report on August 23 suggested that Prime Minister Oli should complete his five-year tenure, while executive chairman Prachanda be allowed to exercise full executive power over party affairs.