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Gaza was in lockdown on Tuesday after the first cases of COVID19 in the general population of the Palestinian enclave, whose restricted borders until now had helped spare it from an outbreak.

Belarus jailed two opposition leaders for 10 days on Tuesday as the government pursued a crackdown on the few figures still at large, while schoolteachers led a new protest of thousands against President Alexander Lukashenko.

First lady Melania Trump will make the case for Donald Trump's reelection on the second night of the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will address the convention in a break with norms discouraging partisan po...

The Hindu cleric shot a letter to the dairy objecting to the classes and urged for an immediate stop “before they became a trendy fad with herds of people flocking to dairy farms to do yoga alongside cows, with many visualising it as an Instagram opportun...

Police in Thailand said they had arrested human rights lawyer Anon Nampa for a third time this month on Tuesday, to charge him for sedition over his role in a political rally where calls were made for reforms to the country's powerful monarchy.

Rebecca Pledger, 64, a retired nurse in the Lake County community of Middletown, about 90 miles north of San Francisco, said she and her husband chose to disregard evacuation orders for the time being

Plenty of presidents have walked right up to the line separating official business from politics or even stepped over it. President Donald Trump has blown past it with a bulldozer, and his planned Republican convention speech from the White House lawn th...

Republicans this week are focused squarely on their convention's star, President Donald Trump, and securing his reelection in November. But there's also plenty of angling for what or who comes next.

China reported its ninth consecutive day with no new locally transmitted COVID19 cases, as a major university in the city of Wuhan opened for facetoface classes on Tuesday for the first time in eight months.

Tropical Storm Laura is forecast to gain strength rapidly as it moves into the Gulf of Mexico late Monday, and is expected to become a hurricane before hitting the Texas or Louisiana coast within 48 hours, forecasters said.

Gaza reported its first cases of COVID19 in the general population on Monday, as authorities confirmed four infections at a refugee camp and security forces declared a full lockdown for 48 hours.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog's chief Rafael Grossi arrived in Iran on Monday, Iranian state TV reported, as he seeks access for inspectors to two suspected former atomic sites after a monthslong standoff between Tehran and the body.

Israel's feuding government leaders on Monday avoided plunging the country into its fourth election in less than two years, postponing a deadline for passage of a national budget.

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld the convictions of two members of a white supremacist group who admitted they punched and kicked counterdemonstrators during the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, but found that part of an antiriot law...

The Type-054 class, equipped with the latest surface, subsurface, anti-air weapons, combat management system, and sensors will be one of the technologically advanced surface platforms of the Pakistan Navy fleet, the report said.

A white St. Louis couple criminally charged for waving guns during a Black Lives Matter protest outside their home will make the case in their opening night speech of the Republican National Convention that they had a Godgiven right to defend themselves a...