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Stepping into the delivery room where his wife Emmanuelle was about to give birth, Edmond Khnaisser meant to capture their son's first moments on camera.

Lithuania on Thursday designated the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group as a terrorist organization and issued a 10year ban on all individuals related to the Iranbacked group from entering the Baltic nations territory.

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that the only solution to Turkey's dispute with Greece over energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean was through dialogue and negotiation, and Ankara was not chasing any "adventures" in the region.

Hungary wants the European Union to pursue dialogue with Belarus and avoid ostracising it, its foreign minister said on Thursday, after days of violent protests in Minsk where President Alexander Lukashenko claimed a landslide reelection victory.

Festering beneath Frances promise of guaranteed health care for all lie deep disparities across economic and racial lines differences laid painfully bare by the COVID19 crisis.

The coronavirus outbreak centered in Australia's secondlargest city showed a decline in new infections Thursday, though the state's leader urged continued vigilance.

The US Department of State advisory said dependents (spouses and children) will also be allowed to travel along with primary visa holders.

Walt Disney World actors, who argued that the Florida theme park's proposed coronavirus safeguards were inadequate to protect them, have resolved a dispute over COVID19 testing, according to a union statement on Wednesday.

Australia's secondmost populous state of Victoria on Thursday said eight people had died from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, a day after recording the deadliest day of the pandemic with 21 casualties.

A central Florida sheriff says his deputies wont be allowed to wear face masks except under some conditions, and neither will visitors to the sheriffs office.

Italy ordered travellers arriving from Croatia, Greece, Malta and Spain to be tested for COVID19 on Wednesday and added Colombia to a list of countries under a complete travel ban amid growing concern over new infections.

A member of the crew of an Air Force helicopter was wounded after the aircraft was struck by a bullet during a flight over a suburban area of Virginia near Washington, D.C., this week, a rare incident that has triggered an FBI investigation, the Air Forc...

Understaffing and inadequate supervision of staff and patients plagued a nonprofit health organization where at least 41 intellectually disabled children have reported sexual assaults over the past quartercentury, a newspaper investigation found.

Mauritius' Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said on Wednesday nearly all remaining oil had been removed from a damaged Japanese ship, which leaked about 1,000 tonnes in a threat to tourism already hurt by the coronavirus pandemic.

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday said two former presidents should have to testify about corruption after a former head of state oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) accused former officials of involvement in bribes.

The pandemic could change unexpected parts of our lives for years to come, experts say.