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The Philippines' ambassador to Brazil has been ordered to return home to face investigation after video surfaced allegedly showing her physically mistreating her Filipino house helper, officials said Monday.

Opponents of Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chanocha urged him on Monday to stop using the monarchy to justify his hold on power and resign, in remarks made to a special session of parliament called by the former junta leader to discuss months of protests.

Oil fell more than 2% on Monday, extending last week's losses as growing cases of COVID19 in the United States and Europe raised worries about crude demand, while the prospect of increased supply also hurt sentiment.

New York State is reporting 80% more cases in the past four weeks as compared to the previous four weeks, according to a Reuters analysis.

Polls have opened in Chile for a referendum on whether the Pinochetera constitution should be torn up and replaced by a fresh charter drafted by citizens, a key demand in protests that erupted last year.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets on Sunday to mark one year since mass antigovernment demonstrations swept Baghdad and Iraq's south, sparking hope for change and calls to end to rampant corruption.

As the Friday night dinner service began earlier this month at the De Viering restaurant outside Brussels, it seemed the owners' decision to move the operation into the spacious village church to comply with coronavirus rules was paying off. The reservati...

It's not how you talk about friends and it's not how you solve global challenges like climate change, Biden said in a tweet, two days after Trump during a presidential debate accused China, India and Russia of not taking care of their 'filthy' air.

In a warehouse near Bogota's airport, behind a heavy cold storage door, sit boxes upon boxes of lifesaving vaccines for everything from yellow fever to polio, awaiting transport to the furthest reaches of Colombia.

Attackers shot dead at least four students and wounded a dozen others after storming into a private school in Cameroon on Saturday morning, an official said.

Two years ago, the three congregations sharing space at Pittsburghs Tree of Life synagogue relocated after an anti-Semitic gunman killed 11 worshippers. Last March, the congregations dispersed from their new locations due to the coronavirus pandemic and s...

New clashes broke out between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces over NagornoKarabakh a day after talks in Washington to try to end the deadliest fighting in the mountain enclave in more than a quarter of a century.

Thousands of Hungarians marched on the streets of the capital Friday to protest government actions they claim strips one of the countrys most prestigious universities of its independence.

Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces clashed in several parts of NagornoKarabakh on Friday, as the United States stepped up diplomatic efforts to try to end the deadliest fighting in the mountain enclave for over a quarter of a century.

Israel and Sudan agreed on Friday to take steps to normalize relations in a deal brokered with the help of the United States, making Khartoum the third Arab government to set aside hostilities with Israel in the last two months.

One of President Donald Trump's top priorities on immigration if he wins a second term would be to use agreements with Central American governments as models to get countries around the world to field asylum claims from people seeking refuge in the United...