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The Czech Republic said on Monday Russia's eviction of 20 Czech embassy employees in response to Prague's expulsion of 18 Russian staff was a stronger than expected reaction and the government will consider further steps.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday the government has made a second payment to the World Health Organization's (WHO) COVAX initiative to access around 11 million COVID19 vaccines.

Israeli police clashed with hundreds of Palestinian protesters outside Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday, firing stun grenades and a water cannon to disperse the crowd, Israeli media said.

A driver who ran a red light threw a chemical liquid at a New York City police officer, drove away and then tossed a flaming Molotov cocktail as officers pursued him Saturday morning, authorities said.

Russias main security agency says it has arrested two Belarusians who it said were preparing a plot to overthrow Belarus government and kill authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.

John Dawes, the former Wales center who captained the British and Irish Lions to their only series victory over New Zealand in 1971, has died following a period of ill health. He was 80.

The 300millionyearold sharks teeth were the first sign that it might be a distinct species.

Vartan Gregorian, the noted scholar and philanthropic leader who led the Carnegie Corporation of New York since 1997, died Thursday after being hospitalized for stomach pain. He was 87.

The head of Italys national health institute distanced himself Friday from a scandal over a spiked World Health Organization report into Italys coronavirus response, saying he had no means to interfere with the U.N. agency and had never censored even inco...

While setting out few positions, Min Ko Naing said the will of the people was the unity government's priority, while acknowledging the scale of the task at hand.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has denied bail for a Colorado geophysicist accused of dragging a police officer down steps to be beaten by an American flag outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Russia will cut its 2021 borrowing plan more than expected and will offer only new OFZ treasury bonds from June 14, the date after which U.S. banks will be barred from buying roubledenominated state bonds directly from Russia.

Florida's Republicancontrolled Legislature approved stiffer penalties against violent protesters on Thursday, handing a major legislative victory to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who began campaigning for the measure last year following a summer of turmoil across th...

Fiction authors Steven Dunn and Tope Falarin and dramatists Jordan E. Cooper and Sylvia Khoury are among this year's winners of the Whiting Awards, honors with a cash prize of $50,000 that are presented to each of 10 emerging writers.

Twotime Canadian Olympic gold medalist Alex Baumann has been named chief executive of Swimming Australia, moving up from his current position as chief strategist at the sports governing body Down Under.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has signed into law a strippeddown alternative to hate crimes legislation that longtime supporters of such laws say doesn't provide true protections.