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Norway has granted asylum to a Polish man who had fled prison term for fraud and forging of documents, but says the prison term was a form of political persecution under Poland's rightwing government.

Two priests are going on trial in the Vaticans criminal tribunal this week, one accused of sexually abusing an altar boy who served at papal Masses in St. Peters Basilica, and the other accused of covering it up.

A leader of protests against new coronavirus restrictions in several New York neighborhoods has been arrested on charges of inciting to riot and unlawful imprisonment for allegedly instigating an assault on a journalist, police said.

Over 700 people were detained in Belarus during mass protests against reelection of the country's authoritarian leader, in the harshest crackdown in weeks on proteters.

Heres whats happening Monday in Election 2020, 22 days until Election Day:

President Donald Trump is running out of time to recover from a series of selfinflicted setbacks that have rattled his base of support and triggered alarm among Republicans who fear the White House is on the verge of being lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

A security guard hired to protect a Denver television news crew covering opposing rallies of rightwing and leftwing political activists is being held in custody on suspicion of firstdegree murder in the fatal shooting of a protester, police said on Sunday...

A federal judge on Sunday expressed serious concerns about Georgia's new election system but declined to order the state to abandon its touchscreen voting machines in favor of handmarked paper ballots for the November election.

The red paint swastikas were spotted along the upscale Rue de Rivoli artery in central Paris early on Sunday morning, leading passers-by to post pictures on social media.

"We note with extreme concern the reports of continued military activities, including against civilian targets, as well as civilian casualties," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a statement.

A federal appeals court issued a temporary order that blocks Texas counties from setting up multiple dropoff locations for mailin ballots.

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An array of Iranbacked Iraqi militia groups have suspended rocket attacks on U.S. forces on condition that Iraq's government present a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops, one of the groups said on Sunday.

The shrinelike birthplace of one of the two Vermont natives who founded Alcoholics Anonymous is in danger of closing, another victim of the restrictions made necessary by the coronavirus pandemic.

Turkey will start to report its total number of coronavirus cases later this week, the country's health minister said in an interview published Sunday, after Ankara was criticized for only releasing figures for patients showing symptoms of infection.

Ireland on Saturday reported 1,012 new cases of COVID19, the highest number in a day since the start of the pandemic and almost double the average for the past week.