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Iran has rejected as "unrealistic" a call by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for the United Nations to extend an international arms embargo on Tehran that ends in October, state TV reported on Monday.

Hong Kong prodemocracy activist Nathan Law said on Monday that the "crazy" arrest of media tycoon Jimmy Lai marked the end of freedom of the press in the former British colony and the spread of the politics of fear.

Iran said on Monday that countries should refrain from politicising the massive blast in Beirut last week, adding that the United States should lift sanctions against Lebanon.

The Israeli military said late Sunday that it struck a Hamas target in the northern Gaza Strip in response to the continued launches of explosivesladen balloons from the Palestinian territory into Israel.

The Democrat was particularly critical of Trump's Saturday announcement that states must pay part of $400 weekly unemployment insurance benefits.

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Puerto Ricos historic primaries were marred early Sunday by a lack of voting materials in a majority of centers across the U.S. territory that forced frustrated voters who braved a spike in COVID19 cases to turn around and go back home.

One person was killed and 34 injured early on Sunday when a bus carrying Polish passengers ran off a motorway in Hungary into a ditch, a spokesman for the national emergency services said.

An Afghan grand assembly, known as the Loya Jirga, on Sunday approved the release of 400 "hardcore" Taliban prisoners, a resolution said, paving the way for the beginning of peace talks in the wartorn country.

An Afghan grand assembly, known as the Loya Jirga, on Sunday approved the release of 400 "hardcore" Taliban prisoners, a resolution said, paving the way for the beginning of peace talks in the wartorn country.

State Sen. Kai Kahele has won the Democratic nomination to represent Hawaiis 2nd Congressional District in Saturday's primary election.

Washington has billed the Taiwan trip as an opportunity to learn from the island's fight against the coronavirus and to celebrate its progressive values. 

Several thousand people waving rainbow flags protested on Saturday in the centre of Warsaw to demand the release of an LGBT activist accused of hanging rainbow banners over statues and damaging an antiabortion campaigner's van.

The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with the mayor and dwindling survivors urging world leaders including their own to do more for a nuclear weapons ban.

A Roman Catholic priest has been shot to death along a road in El Salvador and church authorities on Saturday called for investigation of the slaying.

U.S. Senate candidate Marquita Bradshaw said Saturday that her campaign fundraising is in full swing and she plans to visit all 95 Tennessee counties as she tries to flip the seat from Republican to Democrat.