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Iran's foreign minister is at home in quarantine after testing positive for the coronavirus, the country's state TV reported on Monday.

The closure comes after Beijing's newly opened Universal Studios said Saturday that close contacts of infected people had been found among the previous weekend's visitors.

Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones might recover quicker than expected from another shoulder injury after being forced off early in Saturday’s heavy defeat by New Zealand, coach Wayne Pivac said.

U.S. President Joe Biden met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and discussed efforts to keep Russia from manipulating natural gas flows with political aims in mind, the White House said on Saturday.

U.S. intelligence agencies said on Friday they may never be able to identify the origins of COVID19, as they released a new, more detailed version of their review of whether the coronavirus came from animaltohuman transmission or leaked from a lab.

Greece mounted a rescue operation on Friday for a Turkishflagged cargo ship carrying about 400 migrants after it sent out a distress signal off the island of Crete, the coast guard said.

Jurors heard opening statements Thursday in a civil lawsuit that accuses white nationalists of conspiring to commit violence at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

A Wisconsin sheriff who supports former President Donald Trump accused the bipartisan state Elections Commission of breaking the law during last year's election, taking the unusual step Thursday of detailing the allegations publicly even though no charges...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom rolled up his sleeve Wednesday and received a coronavirus vaccine booster shot, a move he encouraged others to take as the state heads into the time of year that in 2020 ushered in the deadliest spike of COVID19 cases.

A third person injured when a drag racer veered into a crowd and crashed during a racing event in Central Texas has died, police said Wednesday.

New York Attorney General Letitia James plans to run for governor, according to three people directly familiar with her plans who spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday.

A young Saudi man was released from prison on Wednesday after spending nearly a decade behind bars in a case that drew international scrutiny because until recently he'd been facing a possible death sentence for protestrelated crimes committed as a minor.

Simona Halep won a battle of generations in Romanian tennis on Wednesday by defeating ElenaGabriela Ruse 61, 62 in the opening round of the Transylvania Open.

Thousands of demonstrators from a banned Pakistani Islamist group clashed with police on Wednesday, killing and wounding several people from both sides, police and the group said.

A man named- Ganesan Angudan, 39 pleaded guilty to one count of breaching the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) (Control Order) Regulations.

A grand jury on Tuesday returned an eightcount indictment against two law enforcement officers in connection with the 2016 killing of a man shot 76 times during an attempted fugitive arrest in the Atlanta area.