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The United States extended the temporary legal residency status Friday for nearly 7,000 people from Syria because of the countrys civil war.

Casting his climate policy as a jobs plan, President Joe Biden left out important context and used fuzzy math when he announced sweeping new green initiatives that he says will boost the U.S. economy with the creation of 1 million new auto jobs.

The bonds that tie England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland together in a $3 trillion economy have been severely strained by both Brexit and Johnson’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

On January 6, hundreds of pro-Trump protesters pushed through barriers set up along the perimeter of the Capitol, where they tussled with officers in full riot gear, some calling the officers 'traitors' for doing their jobs.

In a fresh study, the UN's International Labour Organization (ILO) found that a full 8.8 percent of global working hours were lost in 2020, compared to the fourth quarter of 2019.

The United States, which passed 25 million confirmed cases last weekend, remains the country with the largest outbreak -- and the largest death toll of over 420,000.

Donald Trump is adding another South Carolina attorney to his impeachment legal team, according to a trial lawyer group in the state.

The Justice Departments inspector general is launching an investigation to examine whether any former or current department officials engaged in an improper attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Police on Saturday found two burnt-out vehicles containing human remains on a country road near the town of Camargo.

The official residence of the vice president is located within the Naval Observatory Complex and is about four miles northwest of the White House.

The study, published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, noted that humans have navigated at least six other types of coronaviruses before SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes COVID-19.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a law on Friday requiring political parties to disclose donations of more than 100,000 rand ($6,650) in a bid to clean up party funding, but it did not ban anonymous donations.

Japan's vaccine programme chief on Friday walked back on a goal to secure enough targeted supplies of COVID19 vaccines by June, one month before the planned start of the Tokyo Olympics.

The Pentagon announced plans Thursday to move ahead with a military trial for three men held at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who are suspected of involvement in bombings in Indonesia in 2002 and 2003.

U.S. President Joe Biden will seek a fiveyear extension to the New START arms control treaty with Russia, the White House said on Thursday, in one of the first major foreign policy decisions of the new administration ahead of the treaty's expiration in ea...

The Biden administration is proposing to Russia a fiveyear extension of the New START treaty limiting the number of U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons, a U.S. official said Thursday.