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Indonesia's coronavirus outbreak will likely peak this month, President Joko Widodo said on Tuesday, adding he was "very confident" about access to a safe and effective vaccine by the end of this year.

The oil spill disaster off Mauritius turned deadly this week when a tugboat leaving the shipwreck collided with a barge and sank, killing at least three sailors, police said Tuesday.

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned Lebanese politicians they risk sanctions if they fail to set the nation on a new course within three months, stepping up pressure for reforms in a country collapsing under the weight of an economic crisis.

Gunfire broke out on Tuesday in a town south of Beirut, where clashes last week killed two people and raised the risk of sectarian strife in Lebanon, the state news agency NNA said.

Damage to cityowned property from violence that erupted over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha is estimated at nearly $2 million so far, a city official said.

On July 21, two U.S Air Force B1B bombers took off from Guam and headed west over the Pacific Ocean to the hotly contested South China Sea. The sleek jets made a lowlevel pass over the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and its escorting fleet, which was...

Myanmar's telecommunications ministry said on Tuesday it had ordered mobile operators to block a website run by activists investigating the military for spreading fake news, which the group said was a bid to silence critical voices.

A Zimbabwean journalist in jail for more than a month is seriously ill and exhibiting symptoms consistent with COVID19, one of his lawyers said, but prison authorities claim the journalist is well.

Japan's health ministry said on Tuesday it planned to participate in the World Health Organization's COVID19 vaccine programme known as COVAX.

Inmates at a highsecurity Australian prison lit fires, smashed windows and flooded their cells with water, authorities said on Tuesday, after a lockdown sparked by a coronavirus outbreak resulted in a shortage of staff and services.

A supporter of a rightwing group who was shot dead on a Portland, Oregon, street was mourned by both friends and President Donald Trump as a victim of mob violence while an online fundraising effort raised tens of thousands of dollars in his memory.

Defying anger from China, the president of the Czech Republics Senate addressed Taiwans national legislature on Tuesday, offering a strong rebuke to authoritarian politics and Beijings increasingly aggressive foreign policy.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman sacked two royals and referred them along with four military officers for investigation into corruption at the defence ministry in a royal decree issued early on Tuesday and carried by state media.

Dallas police officers found the bodies of three people in an apartment Monday after a man called an alarm company and said he had killed his wife and two children, police said.

A Syrian military official said Israels military fired missiles Monday night on areas south of the capital Damascus.

Liberty University is opening an independent investigation into Jerry Falwell Jr.'s tenure as president, a wideranging inquiry that will include financial, real estate and legal matters, the evangelical school's board announced Monday.