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China reported on Tuesday 44 new coronavirus cases in the mainland for August 10, compared with 49 cases a day earlier, the health authority said.

Governors and state labor department officials were scrambling Monday to determine whether they could implement President Donald Trumps executive order to partially extend unemployment assistance payments to millions of Americans struggling to find work i...

A Brooklyn man charged with trying to help the Islamic State group by encouraging attacks on New Yorks subway system pleaded guilty Monday in Manhattan federal court.

The board of private evangelical Liberty University in Virginia said Monday that it had chosen an interim leader, days after Jerry Falwell Jr. began a leave of absence after one of his posts on social media created an uproar.

England's COVID19 Test and Trace scheme is to become more locally targeted, the government said on Monday, after data suggested it was not reaching as many contacts of infected people as needed to avoid a second wave of infections.

A major explosion tore through a Baltimore neighborhood on Monday, leveling several houses, trapping at least five people and critically injuring three, firefighters said.

The opposition in Belarus rejected official election results handing President Alexander Lukashenko a landslide reelection victory on Monday, saying the poll was rigged and that talks needed to begin on a peaceful transfer of power.

Iran shut down a newspaper on Monday after it published remarks by an expert who said the official figures on coronavirus cases and deaths in the country account for only 5% of the real toll.

There is a huge gap between funds needed to fight the coronavirus and funds committed worldwide, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.

At least one person was killed after being knocked over by a police prisoner van and dozens were injured in clashes between police and protesters after the Belarus presidential election, a representative of the rights group Spring 96 said on Monday.

The US has been hammered by the COVID-19 pandemic, recording nearly 163,000 deaths -- by far the highest of any country, ahead only of Brazil, which on Saturday became the second country to pass 100,000 deaths.

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been arrested over suspected collusion with foreign forces under the new national security law, his top aide said on Twitter, in what is the highestprofile arrest yet under the legislation.

Tropical Storm Elida has formed off Mexicos Pacific coast and is expected to become a hurricane on Monday as it moves away from land.

Belarus police fired stun grenades and began detentions in a crackdown on protests that erupted as President Alexander Lukashenko was set to claim another election win on Sunday in the face of the biggest challenge in years to his grip on power.

Gunmen on motorcycles killed six French aid workers, a Nigerien guide and a driver in a wildlife park in Niger on Sunday, officials said.

More than a week of torrential rain in South Korea has left at least 30 dead and 12 missing in landslides, floods and other incidents, the government said Sunday while warning of further downpour.