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There was no tsunami threat from the earthquake, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

Hong Kong began free coronavirus testing for all residents in the Asian financial hub on Tuesday, as the mainland Chineseled initiative faced scepticism from the city's medical community and public, with some activists urging a boycott.

The general council of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) decided unanimously on Tuesday that the next leader would be chosen in a simplified rather than fullscale format in the interest of speed, a senior party executive said.

The COVID19 pandemic has deepened inequality between men and women and reversed decades of limited and fragile progress on gender equality and womens rights, the United Nations chief said Monday.

Saudi Arabia's top military commander in its yearslong war in Yemen and his prince son have been removed from their posts along with other officials as part of an anticorruption investigation, the kingdom said early Tuesday.

Mexico has registered more than 64,000 deaths from the coronavirus -- one of the world's highest tolls.

Inside a sweltering housing unit with no power and a stench of human waste, men at one Louisiana immigration detention center pounded on the windows and pleaded to be let outside. It had been nearly two days since Hurricane Laura had knocked out electrici...

The judge overseeing the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy is mulling a request to address what attorneys for the BSA claim are misleading and confusing advertisements from law firms trying to solicit business from survivors of child sexual abuse.

Federal regulators said Monday they would not designate critical habitat for the first bee species in the continental U.S. to be listed as endangered, a move that environmentalists said would worsen its chances for recovery.

Authorities in eastern Nevada have suspended the search for a wellknown paraglider from New Zealand who has been missing in the mountains south of Eureka for a week.

Abortion rights groups on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging a newly enacted Tennessee law that would require women undergoing druginduced abortions be informed the procedure can be reversed.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday the number of deaths due to the coronavirus had risen by 473 to 182,622 and reported 5,972,356 cases, an increase of 37,532 from its previous count.

Spain has registered more than 23,000 new COVID19 cases since Friday, health emergency chief Fernando Simon told a news conference on Monday, suggesting the infection rate had declined slightly from an Aug. 21 peak.

A U.S. appeals court on Monday denied a bid by Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, to immediately end the criminal case against him for lying to the FBI about his talks with a Russian official before Trump took office...

Brian Kolfage, the U.S. Air Force veteran charged alongside former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon with defrauding donors in a scheme to build the president's signature wall along the U.S.Mexico border, is scheduled to appear before a judge by videoconf...

Health authorities in Portugal are allowing the countrys Communist Party to let 16,500 people into its annual openair festival next weekend an unusually high number for a gathering in Europe amid the coronavirus pandemic.