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At least four Afghan security force members, including a commander, were killed and seven were critically injured in blasts in eastern and southern provinces on Saturday, officials said, adding that three civilians were injured in the east.

Joe Biden arrived on Friday for his first weekend as U.S. president at Camp David, the storied retreat in the mountains of western Maryland that many predecessors found to be a rustic getaway from the political battles of Washington.

Greece on Friday extended the full lockdown imposed on metropolitan Athens earlier this week to more regions of the country in a bid to contain the spread of COVID19 infections, the deputy civil protection minister said.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday will issue new COVID19 guidelines for schools as the Biden administration seeks to fulfill its promise to send most students back to the classroom within its first 100 days.

Danish police said they have arrested 13 people in the last week, while German police have arrested one more, on suspicion of attempting to make explosives and planning a terrorist attack in either Denmark or Germany.

A man authorities say is a leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and led other extremists in the attack on the U.S. Capitol discussed the possibility of getting a boat to ferry heavy weapons across the Potomac River, prosecutors said Thursday...

Myanmar's junta leader on Thursday urged government employees to return to work after absences that he blamed on harassment by "unscrupulous persons", in his first public remarks on the protests against him and a growing civil disobedience campaign.

The report said that Instagram permanently removed Robert F. Kennedy Jr's account 'for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines.'

The Regional Cooperation Economic Partnership (RCEP) is unlikely to bring immediate significant benefits for its developing member countries in terms of flow of goods and services or major infrastructure investments, analysts and economists said.

House Democrats opened their first day of arguments in former President Donald Trumps impeachment trial Wednesday with searing footage of the U.S. Capitol riot as they painted Trump as an inciter in chief who systematically riled up his supporters and fal...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered new sanctions against the military regime in Myanmar, taking action after the military this month staged a coup in the Southeast Asian country and arrested de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior politici...

Europe's medicines regulator said on Wednesday it has so far not received any application seeking approval for the Sputnik V COVID19 vaccine developed by Russia's Gamaleya institute.

The benefits of the COVID19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University outweigh any risks and the shot should recommended for use, including in people aged 65 and older, a World Health Organization panel said on Wednesday.

Israel plans to open up some hotels, gyms and other leisure facilities in two weeks to those documented as being immune to COVID19, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said on Wednesday, in a possible harbinger of a wider emergence from the pandemic.

Britain said on Wednesday it would give an additional 3.5 billion pounds ($4.8 billion) to remove dangerous cladding on highrise residential buildings, more than three years after the deadly Grenfell Tower fire in London.

The European Commission expressed concern on Wednesday over media freedom in Hungary and Poland, both under investigation for flouting the rule of law, as Budapest shut an opposition radio station and Warsaw proposed a levy on private media.