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U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said on Wednesday that no deal for fresh coronavirus relief has been achieved yet between Democrats and Republican Senate Leader Mitch McDonnell, but he expressed hope that one could be reached "in the next few days....

Britain stands by clauses in legislation the government has admitted breach a divorce deal with the European Union, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday, repeating they were necessary to provide a legal safety net.

Romania will reopen indoor farmers markets at the weekend after three weeks of closure, just before a Sunday national election, as the number of new coronavirus infections has slowed from last month, President Klaus Iohannis said on Wednesday.

Lebanon wants maritime border talks with Israel to succeed and difficulties that surfaced in the last session round can be overcome, President Michel Aoun told a U.S. mediator on Wednesday, after the latest round was postponed.

Top U.S. health officials announced plans on Tuesday to begin vaccinating Americans against the coronavirus as early as midDecember, as nationwide deaths hit the highest number for a single day in six months.

The mysterious metal column found standing inexplicably in a remote part of Utah's desert last month was knocked down and dismantled by a group of men who considered it "trash," according to a photographer who documented the object's demise.

A massive radio telescope at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory one of the world's largest collapsed on Tuesday after sustaining severe damage since August, officials said, following 57 years of astronomical discoveries.

After record wildfires ravaged the U.S. West Coast, replanting trees amid the apocalyptic, ashcovered landscape is a daunting task.

Anies Baswedan, the governor of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, said on Tuesday he had tested positive for COVID19, as the world's fourth most populous country struggles to contain a spike in the number of infections.

Maguito Vilela was elected mayor of the Brazilian city of Goiânia on Sunday, but he has yet to find out. That's because he has spent much of the last month in an induced coma, breathing via a ventilator because of a severe COVID19 infection.

The Russian track and field federation elected a state rail executive as its new president Monday as it attempts to have its doping suspension lifted ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday Canberra is seeking an apology from Beijing about a Tweet containing a false image of an Australian soldier holding the knife to the throat of an Afghan child.

Communistrun Cuba over the weekend launched an allout rhetorical assault through staterun media on a rare protest that took place Friday for freedom of expression, branding it part of an ongoing effort by the United States to create an uprising.

The Chinese government defines absolute poverty as surviving on less than 2,300 yuan ($350) per year. Over the past 40 years, China has moved from a primarily agrarian economy into one of the world's most rapidly urbanizing countries.

Villagers in northeast Nigeria's Borno state on Sunday buried 43 farmers killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants while security forces searched for dozens of people who are still missing.

The schools, which make up the country’s largest school system, were closed less than two weeks ago after the citywide rate of coronavirus tests coming back positive exceeded a 3% benchmark agreed to by the mayor and the teachers’ union.