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A prominent British human rights lawyer is convening an independent tribunal in London to investigate whether the Chinese governments alleged rights abuses against Uighur Muslims in the far western Xinjiang region constitute genocide or crimes against hum...

Singapore health authorities have detected new COVID19 clusters at foreign worker dormitories previously found to be clear of the infection, highlighting the challenge in containing the spread of the highly infectious virus.

With two months to go until Election Day, Trump is simultaneously promoting at least nine baseless conspiratorial tales -- about protests, about the coronavirus, about voting and about opponent Joe Biden -- while embracing believers in the QAnon conspirac...

When Bangladeshi authorities prepared to enforce a nationwide lockdown in late March, three friends fretted: How would rickshaw drivers, factory workers and other working poor people survive?

U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Wednesday that mailin ballots for the Nov. 3 election could be vulnerable to fraud, echoing an argument President Donald Trump has made to denounce the use of voting by mail.

The emission from a leaking natural gas well off the Texas coast could no longer be seen from shore by Wednesday and was down to about 5 percent of what it was the day before, officials said.

The Trump administration said Wednesday it won't pay more than $60 million in dues it owes to the World Health Organization and will use the money instead to pay down other contributions to the United Nations. The announcement came just a day after the Wh...

Democratic nominee Joe Biden looked to shift the focus of the U.S. presidential race back to the coronavirus and President Donald Trump’s handling of the pandemic during a campaign event on Wednesday on safely reopening the country’s schools.

I try to imbue my work with a sort of interiority, says Lucy (Jessie Buckley), the artists-physics student-girlfriend of Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things.

A Louisiana congressman's Facebook post promising the use of force against armed protesters has been removed from the social media platform, prompting a response from the congressman that America is being manipulated into a new era of government control.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will organize meetings with an independent group of experts to review data of coronavirus vaccine candidates and advise the agency, FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn said on Wednesday.

Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador announced the resignation of his environment minister Wednesday, nearly a month after a leaked recording showed that cabinet member criticizing the presidents administration.

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, over her investigation into whether American forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan.

Relatives of a man fatally shot by Chicago police after gunshots were fired at an unmarked police car don't believe he fired those shots and want to see police body camera footage of the incident.

Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has been granted bail after being held in jail for more than a month on charges of inciting violence.

Qatar's ruler Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad alThani told White House adviser Jared Kushner on Wednesday that Doha supports a twostate solution, with East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, to end the conflict with Israel, his cabinet said.