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The global community should help Lebanon rather than impose its will on the country, Iran's foreign minister said while in Beirut on Friday, following the catastrophic blast at the city's port that killed 172 people and pushed the government to resign.

The author of the millionselling selfhelp book The Secret is aiming even higher with her next work.

Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges has written a children's book with a candid telling of the past and positive message for the future, inspired by the Black Lives Matter protests.

At least nine European Union countries and the bloc's executive have urged new sanctions on Belarus over a disputed election and a crackdown on protesters, ahead of emergency talks among member states on Friday.

Thai authorities arrested a student leader on Friday over an antigovernment protest last month, a rights group said, just a few days before a big demonstration scheduled for Sunday.

The Dutch economy suffered an unprecedented 8.5% contraction in the second quarter as the coronavirus pandemic slammed the brakes on spending, exports and investments, the country's Central Bureau for Statistics said Friday.

The researchers extrapolated the extent of the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan and Seattle based on retested throat swabs taken from patients who were suffering from influenza-like illnesses during January in Wuhan and during late February and early March in S...

Queen Elizabeth II's only daughter, Princess Anne, will be celebrating her 70th birthday on Saturday in a nononsense manner befitting her reputation in Britain.

Rioters on rooftops and streets threw stones, eggs and fireworks at police overnight during a second night of unrest in a lowincome neighborhood of The Hague, Dutch police said Friday.

ShanghaiPRIDE, one of China's longest running gay pride groups, said it was cancelling all activities and events for the foreseeable future, citing the need to protect the "safety" of its people and prompting a chorus of regret on social media.

Hundreds of thousands of British holidaymakers in France face the prospect Friday of having to go into selfisolation for 14 days when they return home after the British government reimposed quarantine restrictions on the country following a recent pickup...

About a quarter of South Korea’s medical clinics closed on Friday for a oneday strike in protest at government plans to train new doctors, as the country reported the highest number of domestic coronavirus cases since the end of March.

The Saudiled coalition fighting the Houthi movement in Yemen said on Thursday it intercepted and downed an armed drone and two ballistic missiles launched towards a southern part of Saudi Arabia, in a statement carried by Saudi state news outlets.

France reported more than 2,500 new COVID19 infections for the second day in a row on Thursday, levels last seen in midApril when the country was in the middle of one of Europe's strictest lockdowns.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted Thursday that businesses in Northern Ireland will continue to enjoy seamless access to the rest of the U.K. after a Brexit transition period with the European Union expires at the end of the year.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans upheld the constitutionality of the allmale military draft system Thursday, citing a 1981 U.S. Supreme Court decision.