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Spain's Royal House, in the spotlight this week after former king Juan Carlos decided to leave Spain under a cloud of financial scandal, is a publiclyfunded institution created to support the king as the head of state and his family.

Spain's Royal House, in the spotlight this week after former king Juan Carlos decided to leave Spain under a cloud of financial scandal, is a publiclyfunded institution created to support the king as the head of state and his family.

Germany has agreed to lift its warning against travelling Turkey to four provinces with low rates of coronavirus infection as part of a deal to help largerscale travel between the two countries resume, the German government said.

President Donald Trump said the coronavirus outbreak is as under control as it can get in the United States, where at least 155,000 people have died amid a patchy response to the public health crisis that has failed to stem a rise in cases.

Philippine police deployed road blocks on Tuesday to enforce a tough new lockdown on about 28 million people in the capital Manila and nearby provinces as the Southeast Asian country reported the region's biggest daily rise in coronavirus cases.

Four suspects belonging to Lebanon's armed Shi'ite Hezbollah group have been tried in absentia by the U.N.backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the 2005 murder of former Sunni Muslim prime minister Rafik al Hariri. The verdict is due on Friday.

Vietnam reported 10 new COVID19 infections and two deaths on Tuesday, lifting its total cases to 652, with eight dead, as the capital Hanoi said it was running short of the rapid testing kits being used to keep a new outbreak at bay.

South Korea's longest spell of monsoon rain in seven years triggered floods that have forced more than 1,000 people to flee their homes and killed at least 13 people in landslides and sweptaway cars, authorities said on Tuesday.

Australia’s ambassador to Iran has met with a BritishAustralian academic reported to be serving a 10year sentence for espionage and says she is in good health, Canberra said on Tuesday.

Spain's farleft Deputy Prime Minister Pablo Iglesias called former king Juan Carlos' decision to leave the country amid a corruption investigation unworthy of a former head of state and said it compromised the Spanish monarchy.

Isaias regained hurricane strength on Monday night just hours before it was due to make landfall in the Carolinas and churn its way up the U.S. East Coast toward Washington, Philadelphia and New York, the National Hurricane Center said.

A typhoon brought high winds and heavy rains to China's eastern coastal areas including the financial hub of Shanghai early Tuesday.

The top Democrats in the U.S. Congress and White House negotiators on Monday said they had made progress in talks on a new coronavirus relief bill, though the administration said President Donald Trump could act alone if no deal is reached.

Six years after Islamic State fighters launched an attack on Iraqs Yazidi minority, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad and human rights lawyer Amal Clooney accused government leaders and the United Nations on Monday of failing to bring the extremists...

President Donald Trump on Thursday raised the idea of delaying the Nov. 3 U.S. elections, an idea immediately rejected by both Democrats and his fellow Republicans in Congress the sole branch of government with the authority to make such a change.

Teachers and support staff at more than 35 school districts across the United States on Monday staged protests over plans to resume inclass instruction while COVID19 is surging in many parts of the country.