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Venezuela capital Caracas' largest produce market is at the center of a worsening COVID19 outbreak, but cashstrapped merchants refuse to stop hawking food there for the city's 5 million residents, many of whom are starving.

Poland reported on Tuesday a record daily increase in coronavirus cases for the fourth time in a week, with more than a third of them found in the southern Silesia region, which has been grappling with another outbreak among coal miners.

Former king Juan Carlos has decided to leave Spain to help shield the monarchy from corruption allegations against him. Local media have reported that he has left for the Dominican Republic, though official sources have not confirmed this.

A second wave of the coronavirus epidemic is "highly likely" to hit France in the autumn or winter, the government's top scientific body warned on Tuesday, as authorities seek to contain an increase in new cases over the past two weeks.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis rejigged his cabinet on Tuesday to help his country manage effectively European funds that it has secured to tackle the fallout of the COVID19 pandemic.

Stylist Julia Wanja picks her way delicately through piles of food waste, discarded masks, rubber gloves and other rubbish at Nairobi's Dandora dumpsite, looking for used hair extensions she can clean and resell to customers.

The heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune was believed to have been driving much faster than initially thought when he was involved in a fatal hitandrun in 2012, a prosecution spokesman said on Tuesday, in a case that has stirred anger in Thailand.

Australia's secondmost populous state Victoria said on Tuesday that anyone breaking COVID19 isolation orders will face hefty fines, as high as A$20,000 ($14,250), and that more military personnel will be deployed to fight the spread of the virus.

Italy opened a new motorway bridge in the northern city of Genoa on Monday, hailing a new beginning two years after the previous structure collapsed, killing 43 people, in one of the country's worst civil disasters in decades.

To the casual observer, 95yearold Lee Hakrae could be just another elderly person in Japan. Surrounded by pictures of his family and paintings by his greatgrandchildren, Lee potters about his cluttered living room on the outskirts of Tokyo.

Days of heavy rain caused floods in South Korea that have forced more than 1,000 people from their homes, killing at least 13 with another 13 missing, authorities said on Tuesday.

Drugmakers say monoclonal antibodies could temporarily prevent infection in at-risk people such as medical workers and the elderly.

A federal judge on Monday ruled that it is unconstitutional to deny Puerto Ricans living in the U.S. territory access to three federal welfare programs in a major decision cheered by many.

Manhattan's district attorney on Monday suggested a grand jury subpoena for U.S. President Donald Trump's tax returns was part of an investigation of "possibly extensive and protracted criminal conduct at the Trump Organization," including alleged insuran...

A construction company whose CEO has made direct appeals on Fox News to build President Donald Trump's border wall won another major contract Monday, this time for nearly $300 million of new barriers in South Texas.

A Minnesota court is investigating how a British newspaper obtained police bodycamera footage showing the arrest and death of George Floyd.