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Suga easily won the vote, taking 377 of a total of 534 votes from Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers and regional representatives, against two rivals.

Australia reported its lowest oneday rise in novel coronavirus infections in nearly three months on Monday as authorities began to ease restrictions aimed at slowing its spread.

The United Arab Emirates' Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science have agreed to work together, UAE state news agency WAM said on Sunday.

The Philippines on Sunday deported a United States Marine convicted of killing a transgender woman in the Southeast Asian country in 2014, after he was granted an absolute pardon by President Rodrigo Duterte.

The blast occurred when hundreds of tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertiliser that had been left unattended in a port warehouse exploded.

British police said counterterrorism officers arrested a man on Saturday on suspicion of attempting to cause an explosion over a package sent to an address in north London earlier this week.

President Donald Trump will embark on a heavier fundraising schedule in coming weeks as his reelection campaign faces a possible cash crunch that has forced it to pull back television advertising in some crucial states.

Mexican activists protesting violence against women set part of a building belonging to a government rights commission on fire in central Mexico on Friday.

A former highranking Mexican federal police official accused of torturing suspects during an investigation into the 2014 disappearance of more than 40 student teachers has turned himself in, authorities said on Friday.

Among adults tested for the coronavirus at 11 US healthcare facilities in July, those who were infected were about twice as likely to have dined at a restaurant in the previous 14 days, according to a US study.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday reported 6,381,013 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 37,451 cases from its previous count, and said that the number of deaths had risen by 1,091 to 191,353.

French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Friday his government was not planning a new, nationwide lockdown to contain a resurgence in COVID19 cases, but would instead implement a raft of less radical measures.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell in August, from the same month a year ago, preliminary government data showed on Friday, even as fires in the region are worsening.

Switzerland has added the regions around Paris and Vienna to its list of areas with high COVID19 infection rates requiring incoming travellers to enter quarantine for 10 days.

Constitutional experts raised the prospect of two years of militaryled rule in Mali following last month's coup at talks on Friday, defying calls by the West African economic bloc ECOWAS for elections within a year.

Even if Joe Biden wins the U.S. presidential election and his fellow Democrats gain full control of Congress, his ability to secure passage of an ambitious legislative agenda may be limited by a stubborn Washington reality: the high hurdle for getting thi...