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Some 400 men and women spaced themselves across a sprawling worship hall, praying through face masks with arms raised for the health of friends and family suffering from the novel coronavirus.

Gaza reported one coronavirus death and at least 10 new cases of infection on Wednesday as the blockaded Palestinian enclave sought to control its first public outbreak of the disease.

Greece plans to extend the western limit of its territorial waters in the Ionian Sea to 12 miles, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, amid tensions with Turkey over Mediterranean energy resources to the east of Greece.

Rapper and producer Kanye West will be on Tennessee's presidential ballot in November, the state elections office confirmed.

France will erase the 100 billion euro ($117.89 billion) cost of its economic recovery plan from its debt pile by 2025, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Wednesday.

Mali has been suspended from a global body of Frenchspeaking countries after a military junta overthrew the West African country's democratically elected president.

Iran's death toll from the novel coronavirus rose by 119 to 21,020, the health ministry's spokeswoman told state TV on Wednesday, with the total number of identified cases rising to 365,606.

Police in Belarus detained over 50 people across the country during protests demanding the resignation of Belarus' authoritarian leader, officials said Wednesday.

When Belarusians filled the streets to protest what they called a fraudulent election that kept authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in power, the blunt repressions came first.

Authorities in Berlin on Wednesday banned several protests planned for the weekend against coronavirus pandemic measures. The protests have drawn support from the German far right.

A senior Chinese diplomat on Wednesday likened Australias call for an inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic to the betrayal of Roman dictator Julius Caesar in a Shakespearean tragedy for the benefit of the United States.

Republicans pressed their case on Tuesday for U.S. President Donald Trump's reelection over Democrat Joe Biden, arguing that Trump's leadership was crucial to revitalize the economy and preserve religious freedom.

A former Salvadoran guerilla accused of shooting down a U.S. army helicopter carrying three soldiers during El Salvador's civil war in 1991 was arrested on Tuesday, authorities said.

The poetic words of love from a daughter to her murdered father brought many people to tears in a New Zealand courtroom Wednesday during the sentencing hearing for the white supremacist who killed 51 worshippers at two mosques.

Canadian Foreign Minister FrancoisPhilippe Champagne met his Chinese counterpart, state councillor Wang Yi, in Rome on Tuesday and urged Beijing to release two citizens of Canada it has detained, Ottawa said.

Dementia tests in the NFL concussion litigation allow doctors to use different baseline standards for Black and white retired players, making it more difficult for Blacks to show injury and qualify for awards, lawyers for two explayers argued in court fil...