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A New Mexico state senator said he fled his house after receiving anonymous threatening telephone messages following his criticism of a protest outside the state Capitol against coronavirus restrictions.

Matthew Loflin was coughing up blood, struggling to breathe and losing consciousness in his cell while awaiting trial on drugpossession charges in this historic Southern city.

The Turkish currency slid further Monday to an alltime low against the U.S. dollar after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan challenged the United States to slap sanctions over his governments decision to test its Russianmade air defense system.

Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday accused each other of violating the new ceasefire announced the day before in a bid to halt the fighting over the separatist region of NagornoKarabakh that has killed hundreds, and possibly thousands, in just four weeks.

German health care company Bayer said Monday it is buying Asklepios BioPharmaceutical, a U.S.based firm specializing in gene therapy, in a deal worth up to $4 billion.

President Donald Trump says Mexico is paying for the wall (it isnt), health care choice for veterans came from him (it didnt) and his tax cut stands as the biggest in American history (nowhere close).

Thailands Parliament began a special session Monday that was called to address tensions as prodemocracy protests draw students and other demonstrators into the streets almost daily demanding the prime minister's resignation.

A man described by Greek police as most likely a migrant trafficker was killed while trying to avoid a police checkpoint in the north of the country, and another was arrested after also fleeing and killing six sheep and a sheepdog with his vehicle.

British special forces boarded a Greekoperated oil tanker in the English channel on Sunday and detained seven suspected stowaways who had threatened the crew, Isle of Wight radio and police said.

After more than six years in confinement, Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lpez is a free man and has been reunited with his family in Madrid.

Women's rights activists in Poland staged protests during Sunday church services in the predominantly Roman Catholic nation against a tightening of the nation's already restrictive abortion law.

Hundreds of people marched in Taiwan's capital on Sunday to demand the release of 12 Hong Kong antigovernment protesters who were arrested by mainland Chinese authorities in August.

Egyptians on Sunday trickled into polling stations on the second day of voting for the countrys parliamentary election amid a slight uptick in daily recorded coronavirus cases.

Tropical Storm Zeta has formed early Sunday off the coast of Cuba near the Yucatan Peninsula, becoming the earliest named 27th Atlantic storm recorded.

Greece reported 935 new infections of COVID19 on Saturday, a fresh daily record, as further restrictions to deal with a new wave kicked in for highrisk regions.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday appeared to confirm that Israel has given its consent for the United States to sell F35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates following a recent agreement establishing diplomatic relations between t...