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U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. Senate will likely open hearings on his third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, on Oct. 12 and he expected a full Senate vote before the Nov. 3 election.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trumps nominee for the Supreme Court, has been on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals since 2017. Her short tenure as a judge has led to few noteworthy or controversial opinions. She has, however, signed onto se...

He announced that the UK is boosting its funding for the World Health Organization by 30%, to 340 million pounds ($432 million) over the next four years, and urged world leaders to acknowledge 'that alarm bells were ringing before this calamity struck' an...

Protesters at a central London antilockdown rally scuffled with police on Saturday as officers tried to break up the demonstration because it had failed to follow social distancing rules.

Sudan does not want to link its removal from a U.S. terrorism list that is hindering access to foreign funding for the country's economy with a normalisation of relations with Israel, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said on Saturday.

Egyptian police dispersed exceptionally rare, small street protests that erupted in a northeastern province on Friday and arrested 10 demonstrators, a security official said.

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A Louisiana state trooper killed in a car crash hours after he was told he would be fired for his role in the death of a Black man was buried with honors Friday at a ceremony that authorities sought to keep secret out of concerns it would attract a mass p...

Amid a flurry of major rulings early this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court in an undertheradar case handed a significant win to Native Americans by finding for the first time that almost half of Oklahoma is tribal land.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday called for an international conference early next year to launch a genuine peace process while criticizing the recent decision of two Arab countries to normalize relations with Israel.

From the opening of his third presidential bid, Joe Biden has argued that he is in a unique position to mend a fractured nation and work even with Republicans to unify the country into some semblance of consensus.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in Germany recovering from what authorities there determined to be nerve agent poisoning, thanked Russian pilots and paramedics for acting quickly after he fell into a coma on a flight from Siberia.

U.S.based Novavax has begun a late stage trial of its potential COVID19 vaccine in the United Kingdom because the highlevel of the coronavirus circulating in the country is likely to produce quick results, the pharmaceutical company said.

European Union security police stormed the offices of a war veterans association in Kosovo, apparently to get hold of international prosecutors' files from a war crimes investigation that the association said it received anonymously, according to witnesse...

Hundreds of people protested in the French city of Marseille on Friday against tough new measures designed to curb the renewed surge in coronavirus cases.

Health officials told reporters at a press conference Friday that China expects to produce 610 million vaccine doses by the end of this year, with annual production capacity to reach at least one billion doses next year.