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The embargo on conventional arms is due to expire on October 18 under the terms of a resolution that blessed the Iran nuclear deal.

A fire broke out at a small warehouse in a Sudanese military arms factory on Friday, state news agency SUNA reported, and has been brought under control.

U.S. coronavirus hotspots had disproportionately high numbers of cases among communities of color, according to an analysis on Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Senior White House officials on Friday sought to use the momentum from a historic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to appeal to more Arab and Muslim countries to set aside longstanding tensions and make similar agreements.

When the massive explosion tore through Beirut last week, it did not only kill and injure thousands of people and destroy a large part of the city it also left scores of animals trapped or lost in the rubble of the Lebanese capital.

The Belarusian Interior Ministry on Friday said more than 2,000 people who were detained during protests following the contested reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko last week have been released.

Josephine just barely held on to its tropical storm status early Friday as it moved over the Atlantic Ocean as the earliest Jnamed storm in a recordsetting hurricane season.

A federal prosecutor who has jailed some of Venezuelas biggest crooks is stepping down, The Associated Press has learned, leaving a void that could dampen U.S. efforts to expose criminal activity in the South American country amid rising tensions with the...

China's factory output rose just under 5% last month from a year earlier while retail sales fell slightly, suggesting the country's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic remains muted.

Health authorities said Friday they were investigating whether shipping workers were a source of New Zealand's first domestic coronavirus outbreak in more than three months.

Both the Republican and Democratic Parties have scaled back their traditional multi-day conventions in view of social distancing guidelines in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Four ships containing Iranian fuel cargoes covered by a U.S. warrant for seizure are sailing to the United States after talks between the U.S. government and the vessel owners, a U.S. government source and a shipping source said on Thursday.

China reported 30 new coronavirus cases on the mainland on Aug. 13, up from 19 on the previous day, the country's health authority said on Friday.

Dario Vivas, the governor of Venezuela's Caracas capital district and strong ally of President Nicolas Maduro, died on Thursday of COVID19 at 70 years old, officials said.

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's claim that she is being treated "worse" than other inmates at the Brooklyn jail where she is being held on charges she facilitated late financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of underage girls.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday urged European nations that support the nuclear deal with Iran to put in writing their ideas to extend the expiring arms embargo on the Islamic Republic, indicating that the Trump administration may be...