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The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 200,000 Tuesday, a figure unimaginable eight months ago when the scourge first reached the worlds richest nation with its sparkling laboratories, top-flight scientists and stockpiles of medicines and emergen...

The man who killed John Lennon in 1980 says he was seeking glory and deserved the death penalty for a "despicable act.

Inside the fastfilling coronavirus ward of a major Tel Aviv hospital, doctors rush to treat critical patients amid a surge in cases that has forced Israel into a second lockdown.

A Swedish lawmaker who nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in the Middle East says he got a phone call of thanks from the American leader.

The mother of a British man who is suspected in the beheadings of Westerners taken hostage by the Islamic State group lost a court challenge Tuesday to the British governments decision to share evidence about her son with American authorities.

The United States and the United Arab Emirates hope to have an initial agreement on the sale of F35 stealth fighter jets to the Gulf state in place by December, as the Trump administration studies how to structure a deal without running afoul of Israel.

Pakistan's deadliest industrial fire, which killed over 260 factory workers in 2012, was a case of arson and not an accident, a court ruled on Tuesday, as it sentenced two men to death who were previously affiliated with a political party currently part o...

Turkey said on Tuesday the European Union sanctions on a Turkish firm accused of breaking a U.N. arms embargo on Libya displayed the EU's double standard and biased stance.

South Korea suspended free flu shots on Tuesday after reports of problems in storing the vaccinations during transportation, disrupting plans to preemptively ease the burden on a healthcare system already strained by coronavirus outbreaks.

Wildfires among ponderosa pines and Douglas firs of the U.S. West have long been part of nature's cycle of renewal, as much as the changing of the seasons.

Six U.S. states so far this month have reported their highest daily number of hospitalized COVID19 patients since the pandemic started as cases began rising again nationwide, according to a Reuters tally.

Up to 2 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities are believed to have been placed in mass detention centers in the region, according to the US State Department, where they have allegedly been subject to indoctrination and abuse.

President Rodrigo Duterte says he has extended a state of calamity in the entire Philippines by a year to allow the government to draw emergency funds faster to fight the COVID19 pandemic and harness the police and military to maintain law and order.

Philadelphia's top elections official is warning of electoral chaos in the presidential battleground state if lawmakers there do not remove a provision in Pennsylvania law that, under a daysold court decision, requires counties to throw out mailin ballots...

Louisville, Kentucky, police have canceled vacations in preparation for an announcement by state Attorney General Daniel Cameron about whether he will charge officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr says the federal government is awarding more than $100 million in grants to target human trafficking.