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The United Nations special envoy has warned Myanmar's army of "severe consequences" for any harsh response to protesters demonstrating against this month's coup in a call with the military leadership, a U.N. spokesman said.

A Turkish court handed jail sentences on Monday to four employees of a nowdefunct proKurdish newspaper on terrorism charges, a lawyer in the case said, describing the verdict as politically motivated.

Several cases of Covid-19 were also detected in Auckland three weeks ago, before being traced back to a hotel where the people had completed quarantine after arriving from overseas.

Eight people have tested positive for the Ebola virus in southeastern Guinea and three of them have died, Guinean health authorities said, the first possible resurgence of the disease there since the world's worst outbreak in 20132016.

Israel plans to reopen restaurants around March 9 as part of its gradual return to normality as a COVID19 vaccination campaign gathers pace, an official said on Sunday.

Veteran Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, one of the faces of the socalled Never Trump movement, announced Friday that he had resigned from the board of the Lincoln Project.

Most every Senate juror has said they will listen to the evidence in Donald Trumps historic second impeachment trial, but most minds were likely made up before the trial began. Democrats would need a minimum of 17 Republicans to vote with them to convict...

Danish police said they have arrested 13 people in the last week, while German police have arrested one more, on suspicion of attempting to make explosives and planning a terrorist attack in either Denmark or Germany.

Europe's drugs regulator said on Friday it had launched a realtime review of CureVac's COVID19 vaccine to speed up potential approvals and bring more shots to the region reeling from a surge in infections. The EU hopes to start giving out money from its 7...

Scores of women have been raped in Ethiopia's northerly Tigray region, authorities have confirmed, in the chaotic aftermath of an armed conflict last year that ousted the local ruling party.

The European Union and the World Health Organization on Thursday said they would spend 40 million euros ($48.48 million) over three years to ensure better access to COVID19 vaccines in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.

The U.S. ambassador to Lebanon paid a rare visit to a quarter of Beirut that is a Hezbollah stronghold on Thursday to attend the memorial service for political researcher and activist Lokman Slim.

Pence, who plans to keep laying low during the impeachment trial, has not quite patched up his relationship with Trump after what happened, according to a source familiar with the situation.

Iran has carried out its plan to produce uranium metal, the U.N. atomic watchdog confirmed on Wednesday, despite Western powers having warned Iran that would breach their 2015 nuclear deal as uranium metal can be used to make the core of an atom bomb.

Biden offered Xi his "greetings and well wishes" to the Chinese people on the occasion of the Lunar New Year celebrations, the White House said in a statement.

More than two decades after a lowkey start to his Americas Cup career, two-time champion Jimmy Spithill is back in Auckland, New Zealand, hoping to help steer Italy to its first victory in the 170-year-old competition.