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A Japanese government panel of coronavirus experts will seek new measures to tackle the coronavirus in Japan as infections in the country rise, Kyodo News reported.

World Health Organization member countries rejected a U.S.backed appeal on Monday for Taiwan to be permitted to attend a meeting of the WHO's decisionmaking body.

Armenia reported heavy fighting around a strategic city in NagornoKarabakh on Monday, a day after Azerbaijan said it had captured it in a major breakthrough after six weeks of bloodshed.

With votes still being counted, turnout in the 2020 presidential election has hit a 50-year high, exceeding the record set by the 2008 presidential election of Barack Obama an extraordinary engagement in what amounted to a referendum on President Donald...

The story of Trump's loss is both familiar in its pattern of self-destructive decisions and altogether surprising in how little the President appeared to prepare himself emotionally for defeat by a man he deemed entirely unworthy.

China reported 33 new COVID19 cases on Nov. 8, up from 28 cases a day earlier, the national health authority reported on Monday.

The country reported a record 131,420 COVID-19 cases on Saturday and has reported over 100,000 infections four times in the past seven days, according to a Reuters tally.

Faced with three crises – mounting coronavirus infections and deaths, the ensuing economic collapse and protests against police killings of Black Americans – Trump as US president had an opportunity to unite people across political persuasions in the fina...

The good news for the Tokyo Olympics is that Japan on Sunday held a oneday exhibition gymnastics meet in front of several thousand fans with 22 athletes participating from Russia, China, and the United States.

Current global uncertainty and anxiety amid the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic could risk another world war, the head of Britain's armed forces has warned.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Saturday that Armenia must be convinced to negotiate in the NagornoKarabakh conflict with Azerbaijan and called for a peaceful resolution, the Turkish Presidency said.

Arab leaders congratulated Joe Biden on his election victory, but some people in the Middle East expressed cynicism over U.S. policy even if he pursues diplomacy rather than President Donald Trump's blunt approach to the region's myriad problems.

Trump has launched a slew of legal challenges and refused to concede after the major US television networks announced Biden's win.

Joe Bidens bet on the 2020 race was a simple one: that a nation riven by deep partisanship was ready for a reset.

"Mommy taught us we could be and do anything. She would be beyond proud today," Maya Harris said on her post on Twitter.

Democrat Joe Biden won the U.S. presidency, Edison Research and major television networks projected on Saturday, as the battleground state of Pennsylvania was put in his column four days after Americans went to the polls.