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Mexico has launched a lawsuit in Miami, Florida against former security chief Genaro Garcia Luna and a network of companies run by him and his associates, hoping to recover illegally obtained assets, Mexico's Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) said on Tues...

Police have detained a passenger who took hostage the driver of a bus on a southern German motorway on Tuesday, Focus Online reported the police as saying.

COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have climbed to an average of more than 1,900 a day for the first time since early March, with experts saying the virus is preying largely on a distinct group: 71 million unvaccinated Americans.

In a new take on vaccine diplomacy, a free mobile COVID19 testing and vaccination station is welcoming world leaders and delegates at this week's U.N. General Assembly, seeking to avoid a superspreader event.

France's Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian said on Monday that world powers and Iran were likely to meet on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations later this week.

Two vessels rescued around 190 Europebound migrants, including women and children, off the coast of Libya, charities operating the vessels said Monday. The rescues came amid a spike in attempted crossings of the Mediterranean Sea.

French President Emmanuel Macron, who has stayed subdued publicly, is set to speak to Biden in the coming days.

Health authorities are keeping a close eye on the number of Covid-19 cases in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to ensure Singapore's health system is not overwhelmed

A fire broke out late Sunday at a soontobeclosed migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos, forcing its evacuation. No injuries or major damage were reported.

The three candidates bidding to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor clashed over taxes and pocketbook issues in a third televised debate Sunday a week before the election.

Israel's former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested in a Facebook video posted on Sunday that U.S. President Joe Biden had fallen asleep when meeting the new Israeli leader Naftali Bennett last month.

Immigrants also accounted for more than 80 percent of Canada’s population growth in 2019 and it was the highest population growth among the G7 nations.

The last two of six Palestinian prisoners who escaped a maximumsecurity Israeli prison two weeks ago were rearrested early Sunday, the Israeli military said.

A gathering of leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean in Mexico this weekend is the latest sign of that country flexing its diplomatic muscle as it looks to assert itself as the new mediator between the region and the United States.

A frontrunner in the race for a joint opposition candidate to fight Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in next year's national election opened his campaigning Friday promising to liberate the country from the rightwing populist leader.

Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing said last month that elections would be held and a state of emergency lifted by August 2023