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The body of a 16yearold Sudanese migrant who apparently was trying to reach Britain by sea was found washed up on a French beach Wednesday, authorities said.

When the bronze equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived by rail in Richmond from Paris in 1890, it took 10,000 men, women and children to haul its pieces more than a mile to the site where the towering monument was erected as a tribute to a Confed...

European Union leaders holding an emergency summit were expected to endorse sanctions on Belarusian officials blamed for election fraud on Wednesday, but signalled reluctance to take steps that might be seen as a bid to pry the country from Moscow's orbit...

Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday in federal court to falsifying a document as part of the bureau's earlystage probe into whether President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign colluded with the Russian government.

Indonesia has put on the backburner President Joko Widodo's ambitious $33billion project to relocate the capital city to the island of Borneo as it grapples to rein in the coronavirus pandemic, the planning minister said.

A New Zealand court on Wednesday found the first nine days of a hard lockdown put in place by the government earlier this year requiring people to isolate at home was justified, but unlawful.

Typhoon Higos made landfall on China's southern coast on Wednesday, bringing high winds and rain as it weakened to a tropical storm.

Millions of women and girls globally have lost access to contraceptives and abortion services because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now the first widespread measure of the toll says India with its abrupt, monthslong lockdown has been hit especially hard.

Japans exports plunged 19.2% in July from a year earlier, as the coronavirus pandemic sapped global demand for goods from the third largest economy, government data showed Wednesday.

US Special Presidential Envoy for Arms Control Marshall Billingslea said after the negations that "there are some areas of convergence between Russia and the US, but we do remain far apart on a number of key issues," Xinhua news agency reported citing a l...

The insurgents raided 30 police posts and an army base in Rakhine State. At least 12 members of the security forces were killed, the army and government said at the time.

U.S. prosecutors are asking that a former CIA officer and contract linguist for the FBI be held without bail on charges of spying for China.

Trinidad and Tobago's opposition United National Congress (UNC) on Tuesday conceded defeat in last week's parliamentary elections after a partial recount, clearing the way for the swearingin on Wednesday of the new government.

Some U.S. moviegoers will be able to see Christopher Nolans Tenet a few days early. Warner Bros. on Tuesday said that it would be offering early access screenings starting Aug. 31 as a gesture of support to the domestic theaters that are reopening after f...

The son of Lebanon's slain former premier Rafik alHariri said punishment must be served after a U.N.backed court on Tuesday convicted a Hezbollah member in the 2005 assassination, and that the Iranbacked group must now "make sacrifices".

The Central Party School in Beijing, where Cai Xia taught for 15 years until 2012, announced on Monday that she had been expelled from the Communist Party after she denounced both the party and Xi in recent speeches and essays.